he worked as an orderly at Uffculme Hospital in Birmingham, making a further appearance before a tribunal and being granted a conditional exemption from conscription. By June he was with the Ambulance Unit in northern France. Post-war period In 1919 Martin attended a socialist summer school, where he gained an interest in guild socialism from G. D. H. Cole and his wife Margaret. That autumn he entered Magdalene College, Cambridge. He gained a double first in two parts of the Historical Tripos, and his college awarded him a bye-fellowship, which he used to visit Princeton University for a year. He joined the Union of Democratic Control: a 1921 revival meeting he organised, addressed by Norman Angell, was broken up by students. At this period, according to C. H. Rolph, Martin was strongly influenced by Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson. In February 1922 he attended a socialist conference at Dunsford. Others there included Bertrand Russell, a domineering Beatrice Webb with Sidney Webb and Barbara Drake, Hugh Dalton, Eric Blair (before he became George Orwell), Harold Laski, Barbara Wootton and Eileen Power. He supported Dalton who was Labour candidate in the March 1922 Cambridge by-election. In 1924 Martin was offered a teaching job at the London School of Economics, under Laski. He remained there for three years, and then took a position as a leader writer at the Manchester Guardian. He left in part because he had been clashing with William Beveridge, the director of the School. Editor of the New Statesman Martin became editor of the New Statesman at the beginning of 1931. He remained at the New Statesman until 1960, when he retired. Circulation and influence The circulation of the Statesman grew from 14,000 to 80,000 over the course of Martin's thirty years in the editor's chair. It was renamed New Statesman and Nation after absorbing The Nation and Athenaeum in 1931. This operation was integral to Martin's appointment: he had won over Arnold Rowntree, the major backer for the new single left-of-centre journal, and Rowntree had insisted that Martin should be a director. In 1934, it took over the Week-end Review owned by Samuel Courtauld, through the good offices of Gerald Barry, gaining about four thousand readers. The magazine became a significant influence on Labour Party politics on the left, and further to the left. Political line Martin wrote after the 1938 Anschluss: "Today if Mr. Chamberlain would come forward and