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
Manny Shinwell Manny Shinwell Emanuel Shinwell, Baron Shinwell, (18 October 1884 – 8 May 1986), known informally as Manny Shinwell, was a British Labour politician. Born in the East End of London to a large family of Jewish immigrants, he moved to Glasgow as a boy and left school at eleven. He became a trade union organiser and one of the leading figures of Red Clydeside. He was imprisoned for six weeks in 1919 for his alleged involvement in the disturbances in Glasgow in January 1919. Shinwell was a Labour MP from 1922 to 1924 and from a by-election in 1928 until