[Huxley’s] voice was clear and beautifully modulated with a penetrating, almost birdlike, quality of which I became fully aware a few days later at the A.P.A. meeting. We were standing in the foyer outside the main hall when Aldous's voice cut througn the hubbub like a knife-blade, 'But Humphry, how incredible it is in a Marxist country like this...' It was 1953 at the height of the McCartny era. Marxist was a diabolical word in the city of the angels.

Huxley 1977 p.58