Crossman, Labor M.P. And Editor, to Speak On Palestine Tonight

Richard H. C. Crossman, assistant editor of England's "New Statesman and Nation," former lecturer at Oxford, and British Labor party M.P., will speak at 8 o'clock this evening in New Lecture Hall under sponsorship of the Harvard Liberal Union and the Harvard Zionist Group.

Currently in the United States at the invitation of the New York Herald Tribune Forum, Crossman will discuss tonight "Britain, Palestine, and the Middle East." Professor Carl J. Friedrich will be program chairman.

Elected to Parliament In 1945

Crossman left Oxford, where he spent his post-graduate years as a tutor and fellow, to run for Parliament in 1937. He was defeated, but was elected Labor M.P. for Coventry in the 1945 general election with a majority of some 18,000 over Conservative, Communist, and Liberal opponents.

During the war, he was Deputy Director of the Psychological Warfare Division of Supreme Allied Headquarters. As such, he organized leaflet campaigns in France and Germany.