Manny Shinwell junior minister) for his lack of zeal about further nationalisation. Shinwell was demoted to Secretary of State for War (Minister for the Army, but no longer a full member of the Cabinet) a position which he held until 1950. He was a vigorous War Minister, who got on well with the Army and was seen as jingoistic. In November 1947 a report from MI5 alleged that Shinwell had passed secret information to a man named "Stanley", who had passed it on to Zionist paramilitary group, the Irgun. Shinwell knew self-styled "contact man" Sidney Stanley, whom he had approached for help
Sydney Smith (British politician) Sydney Smith (British politician) Sydney Herbert Smith (27 April 1885 – 12 June 1984) was a Labour Party politician in England. He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Kingston upon Hull South West in the Labour landslide at the 1945 general election, and held the seat until the constituency was abolished for the 1950 general election. He did not stand again. Sydney Smith came from a family of tailors that moved from Birmingham, to Ipswich, and finally to London where he was born in 1885. There was always some politics in his life, though not initially of the