Claud was the greatest radical journalist of his age, an inspiring influence not only on CounterPunch but on many other seditious journalistic enterprises such as Private Eye, the fortnightly at whose helm he stood at a crucial moment in the early 1960s, and the National Guardian, founded by Cedric Belfrage, James Aronson and John McManus. If I were asked who are the greatest journalists of the 20th century, my answer would be G.K. Chesterton and Claud Cockburn.' - Graham Greene'