that Harber and van Gelderen alone were privy to the charges, but they certainly reached Johns, Goffe and Archer, who also relayed them to IS member "Camille" while in Paris as an observer at the PSOP conference, (van Gelderen to Jackson, 11 Nov. 1937; Jackson to Lee, 12 Nov. 1937; Lee to Archer, 16 Nov. 1937; Archer to Lee, 19 Nov. 1937). At a special executive of 13 November Lee obtained confirmation that knowledge of the charges had leaked out, ( Minutes , H.P., D.J.H. 2a/7). 101. Minutes of GMM , 14 November 1937, H.P., D.J.H. 2a/7., In December these minutes were challenged by Frieslich, Haston, Healy and Grant as distorted to show Lee in an unfavourable light. 102. Minutes of Executive Committee , 20 November 1937, H.P., D.J.H. 2a/7. Haston later explained that his motivation was that this second step logically followed from the first, ( Minutes of Executive Committee , 27 November 1937, H.P., D.J.H. 2a/9a). 108. Haston was protesting at the minutes of the 14 November G.M.M. and declared he no longer expected objective records of meetings, ( Minutes of Executive Committee , 11 Dec. 1937, H.P., D.J.H.2a/9c). He charged that the manoeuvres of Harber et al. had "a deep political significance" (J. Haston to the Militant Group, 12 Dec. 1937, H.P., D.J.H. 2a/9c). What this might have been is a mystery. 109. M. Tippett [to the Militant Group], 11 Dec. 1937, H.P., D.J.H. 2a/9c. Tippett linked the Lee affair to the suspension of the Liverpool Group