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In the late 1930s, he went to Spain during the Spanish Civil War as a medic with the Red Cross.

Here he made contact with the anarchist CNT-FAI.

Impressed by the social revolution that had unfolded in Spain, White was further attracted to the anarchist cause due to his own latent anti-Stalinism.

Never at home with the Communist left in Ireland, he wrote the short pamphlet The Meaning of Anarchy that explained the background to the May ' 37 street battle and struggle in Barcelona between the anarchists and Stalinists.

Returning to London from Spain, he worked with Spain and the World, a pro-libertarian propaganda group active in Britain in support of the Spanish anarchists.

While in London, he met his second wife, Noreen Shanahan, the daughter of an Irish government official.

They had three children, Anthony, Alan and Derrick.

He had had one child, a daughter Ave, from his first marriage with the Gibraltarian Dolly Mosley.