Each return to London from Berlin brought bitter confrontations. Roland was arguing with too many of his friends and with the left wing of the Labour Party. Here was the awkward association. He was a member in good standing, had leafleted and knocked on doors for Wilson in ’70 and ’74 and had borrowed a car to get the old and disabled to the polls for Callaghan in the spring of ’79. Now, just back from Berlin, he went along to his local party meetings. In the general discussion Roland spoke of gross abuses in the GDR and, by report, of violations of basic human rights across the Soviet Empire.
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