quickly attracted support from the labour movement. By January 1946 it had 10,000 individual members, as well as organisational membership from 186 trade union bodies and 17 other co-operatives. One month later, in February 1946, a large rally was organised at the Albert Hall, the Daily Worker which was then owned by Keable Press Ltd on behalf of the Communist Party of Great Britain, was sold to the People's Press Printing Society for a single shilling. Postwar The Daily Worker reached its peak circulation after the war, although precise circulation figures are disputed – from 100,000 to 122,000 to 140,000 and even 500,000. The Daily Worker's campaigns against the colour bar in Britain inspired British middleweight champion boxer Len Johnson to join the Communist Party of Great Britain, and write a boxing column for the Daily Worker. The Daily Worker was fully supportive of the show trials in Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria in the late 1940s, as well as the split with Tito and Yugoslavia in 1948. In 1950 Daily Worker foreign correspondent Alan Winnington published I Saw the Truth in Korea, which provided evidence of mass graves containing thousands of corpses belonging to civilians executed by South Korean government during the Korean War. In response to Winnington's anti-imperialist views and exposure of atrocities in Korea, Clement Attlee's cabinet discussed having Winnington executed by charging him with treason. However, it was instead decided to make him stateless by refusing to renew his passport. Historians and academics have described Winnington as one of the most trustworthy voices of the war. In April 1952, the Daily Worker published photographs of a Royal Marine commando posing with two Iban soldiers and holding the decapitated head of a suspected member of the Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA). The article also included eyewitness testimonies from British personnel in Malaya. An Admiralty spokesman subsequently claimed that the photographs were a forgery and a "communist trick", though Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton later confirmed to Parliament that they were genuine; Lyttelton noted the decapitations were conducted by Iban headhunters hired by the British and claimed that it was an isolated incident. In response to Lyttelton's claims, the Daily Worker published several more photographs of MNLA guerrillas decapitated by Ibans and whose heads became trophies for British soldiers. In 1956, the Daily Worker suppressed correspondent Peter Fryer's reports from the Hungarian revolution, which were favourable to the uprising. The