Before the UK joined the US in the Cold War in 1947 , Foot favoured a 'third way ' foreign policy .
Before the UK began to side with the United States in the Cold War at the beginning of 1947 , Foot favoured a 'third way ' foreign policy for Europe ( he was joint author with Richard Crossman and Ian Mikardo of the pamphlet Keep Left in 1947 ) , but in the wake of the communist seizure of power in Hungary and Czechoslovakia he and Tribune took a strongly anti-communist position , eventually embracing NATO.Foot was however a critic of the West 's handling of the Korean War , an opponent of West German rearmament in the early 1950s and a founder member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament .
Michael Foot