‘Loyal believers and disloyal sceptics’: Propaganda and dissent in Britain during the Korean War, 1950-53

<p>On 10 December 1951 the Labour MP Richard Crossman went to see Benjamin Britten’s new opera Billy Budd, which had just opened at Covent Garden. It was, he noted in his diary, "oddly topical ... Billy Budd is really pure, brave and loyal, but it is the war against the French Revolution,...