I went up to Cambridge in a pretty confused state, politically. I mean, you must remember, we're talking about the... the period when the World War was about to break out. I had, between leaving school and going to university, I had spent a holiday for a month with an uncle of mine who, at that time, was British military attache in Berlin. I had seen what was happening in Germany. I've actually heard Hitler make a speech in... in the flesh, a terrifying experience, dark, torches - Zieg Heil, Zieg Heil everywhere. And people are wrong about Hitler in some ways, he didn't scream all the time. Much of the time it was a rather warm, reassuring voice. And then every now and then it would go off into this sort of screaming hysteria. I came back really very frightened, because I sort of knew there was going to be a war. And yet I had been a pacifist, I had this belief that, you know, if people refused to fight there couldn't be wars, which is logically true. But I also sort of knew that pacifism wasn't going to stop Hitler. And I went up to Cambridge, and I think, within a couple of months of going to Cambridge, I joined the Communist Party. They seemed to be the one organisation who did know there was going to be a war. Who... we were very involved in... in the Spanish Civil War, which was raging at the time. But they also were... had what to me were admirable policies on a number of other questions. I mean, I... I made a number of Indian friends when I went up to Cambridge who were determined that India should become independent, which it, of course, later did. And some of these friends of mine became important members in the Congress Party and so on.