Foreign correspondents were strictly prevented from any access beyond official spokesmen. Floor leaders act as the party chief spokesmen. Opposition spokesmen described the comments as prejudicial. The junta's main ideological spokesmen included Georgios Georgalas and journalist Savvas Konstantopoulos, both former Marxists. For more than seven decades, he was one of science fiction's staunchest spokesmen and promoters. The Democrats countered with their best spokesmen on tariff issues. However, there was opposition to the direct method of English teaching from some immigrant spokesmen. The business spokesmen in the North generally opposed Radical proposals. Radhakrishnan was one of the most prominent spokesmen of Neo-Vedanta. Laski was one of Britain's most influential intellectual spokesmen for Marxism in the interwar years. During and after Lausanne, the British spokesmen made remarks about this. Lennox himself and Church of Scientology spokesmen denied this. The Board of Spokesmen of the Congress agreed to accept the resignation. Many of these spokesmen voiced a preference for some form of confederalism or federalism. Their spokesmen, such as Jonathan Swift and Edmund Burke, sought more local control.