In secret he also acted as a member of the prisoners' Central Committee, which plotted sabotage, planned a few escapes, and maintained a hidden control over the wretched French slave-laborers.

In the judgment of Chief of Staff Scott it was ironic that the draft policy of a Democratic President, aimed at Germany, had to be pushed through the House of Representatives by the ranking minority member of the Military Affairs Committee -- a Republican Jew born in Germany!!

Not only is Mr. Frelinghuysen a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, but he is the grandson of the man who was instrumental in opening relations between the United States and Korea, Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, Secretary of State in the administration of Chester A. Arthur.

Mr. Devey is a member of the Institute of Radio Engineers, and is chairman of the Electronic Industries Association Committee on Printed and Modular Components.

With great difficulty he made his way from his native Hungary to Geneva to renew his contacts as a member of the Provisional Committee for the World Council of Churches.

Col. Clifton Lisle, of Chester Springs, who headed the Troop Committee for much of its second and third decades, is now an honorary member.

Cannon, a powerful, conservative man, brought welcome support to the Smith-Colmer forces: as chairman of the Appropriations Committee, he holds over each member the dreadful threat of excluding this or that congressional district from federal pork-barrel projects.

His grandson, the third Baron, was a soldier, cricketer and tennis player and a member of the International Olympic Committee.

However, the Cayman Islands still participates in some international organisations, being a full member of the Central Development Bank and International Olympic Committee, an associate member of Caricom and UNESCO, and a member of a subbureau of Interpol.

Membership in International Organizations: The major organizations in which Colombia is a member include: the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean, Andean Pact, Caribbean Development Bank, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Group of 3, Group of 11, Group of 24, Group of 77, Inter-American Development Bank, International Atomic Energy Agency, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, International Chamber of Commerce, International Civil Aviation Organization, International Criminal Police Organization, International Development Association, International Finance Corporation, International Fund for Agricultural Development, International Labour Organization, International Maritime Organization, International Maritime Satellite Organization, International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), International Olympic Committee, International Organization for Migration, International Organization for Standardization, International Telecommunication Union, International Telecommunications Satellite Organization, International Trade Union Confederation, Latin American Economic System, Latin American Integration Association, Latin Union, Non-Aligned Movement, Organization of American States ( OAS ), Permanent Court of Arbitration, Rio Group, United Nations ( UN ), UN Conference on Trade and Development, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UN Industrial Development Organization, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees, Universal Postal Union, World Confederation of Labour, World Federation of Trade Unions, World Health Organization, World Intellectual Property Organization, World Meteorological Organization, World Tourism Organization, and World Trade Organization.

Charles Fleetwood was appointed a member of the Committee of Safety and of the Council of State, and one of the seven commissioners for the army.

Alternate member of the Politburo of the CPC Central Committee: Wang Gang

The newly elected Central Committee demoted Kamenev to a non-voting member of the Politburo.

During the May 1966 Central Committee plenum, Brezhnev openly complained that only one member had asked him personally to be allowed to speak.

Ryzhkov became the Head of the Economic Department of the Central Committee, and became the leading Central Committee member on matters regarding economic planning.

At the 14 – 15 June 1983 Central Committee meeting, Vitaly Vorotnikov was elected as a candidate member of the Politburo, Grigory Romanov was elected to the Secretariat and five members of the Central Committee were given full membership.

But one does not have to rely on the victims for stories of violence: Ted Patrick, one of the most notorious deprogrammers used by CAGs ( who has spent several terms in prison for his exploits ) openly boasts about some of the violence he employed ; in November 1987, Cyril Vosper, a Committee member of the British cult-awareness group, FAIR, was convicted in Munich of " causing bodily harm " in the course of one of his many deprogramming attempts ; and a number of similar convictions are on record for prominent members of CAGs elsewhere.

David, as a member of the Committee of General Security, contributed directly to the Reign of Terror.

In 2001 the Temporary Committee on the ECHELON Interception System recommended to the European Parliament that citizens of member states routinely use cryptography in their communications to protect their privacy, because economic espionage with ECHELON has been conducted by the US intelligence agences.

She was not as active as her sister, Millicent Garrett Fawcett, though Anderson became a member of the Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage in 1889.

They agreed to act together the following Easter and made Connolly the sixth member of the Military Committee.

In 1985 Alex Odeh, the local chairman of the pro-Palestinian American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee ( ADC ) was killed by a bomb while opening the door to his Santa Ana, California office.

In 1986 the AJC publicly condemned the murder by bomb attack of Alex Odeh ( in Oct. 1985 ), a leader of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee in Santa Ana, California.

Alex Penk, Maxim Institute's Policy and Research Manager said that: " The report released by the Prostitution Law Review Committee today clearly shows that the Prostitution Reform Act is not making life safer for many of New Zealand's most vulnerable men, women and young people "

* Alex Allan-Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee and former British High Commissioner to Australia.

Finally, on 11 April 2011, Durham County Council's Highways Committee turned down the application to grant village green status for the Belle Vue area paving the way for the promised development of Consett Academy and a sports centre to replace the separate wet and dry centres in Consett, even local counsillor Alex Watson was sacked from his position as local counsillor for almost 50years after his public opposition to the unwanted Academy.

Davis, President of the Town Committee, and George Bonham and Alex L. Johnson, Esquires, and members, charging them with the task of " suggesting and carrying into effect such arrangements on this head, as may on the whole be most conducive to the comfort and security of the different classes of inhabitants and the general interests and welfare of the place ..."

After having served as Convener of the Council's Art and Culture Committee from 1998 – 2003, she was unanimously elected by the city council to replace Alex Mosson as Lord Provost in May, 2003, a post which she held for four years.

* 2010 Alex Trebek and Canadian International Polar Year National Committee

The current member is Alex Hawke, the deputy chair of the Joint Select Committee on Cyber-Safety.

Membership included Governors General Sir Isaac Isaacs, Sir Ninian Stephen, Archbishop Peter Hollingworth ; Governors of Victoria Sir Henry Winneke, Sir James Gobbo, the Hon Alex Chernov AC ; Chief Justices of Australia Sir John Latham, Sir Owen Dixon ; High Court Justices Sir Daryl Dawson and Kenneth Madison Hayne AC ; Chief Justices of Victoria Sir William Foster Stawell, Sir William Irvine, Sir Frederick Mann, Sir Edmund Herring, Sir Henry Winneke and Sir John Young ; Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, politicians Sir John Bloomfield, Andrew Peacock, Admiral Sir William Bridges ; Generals Sir Brudenall White, Sir William Johnston, artists Sir Arthur Streeton and Sir Daryl Lindsay ; mining magnates Sir James Balderstone, Hugh Morgan, BHP-Billiton businessmen Don Argus, and former head of Shell Australia and vice president of the International Olympic Committee Kevan Gosper.

His successor Paul Keating pursued the republican agenda much more actively than Hawke had done, and he established the Republic Advisory Committee to produce an options paper on issues relating to the possible transition to a republic to take effect on the centenary of federation: 1 January 2001.

There had been few amateur cricketers in the Yorkshire team before Hawke and there had been complaints from the cricket establishment that the Yorkshire Committee preferred to play professionals.

The club's preparations for the next season involved playing several trial matches, which Hawke encouraged the Committee to arrange.

In 1901, Hirst and Rhodes were invited to join a team organised by Archie MacLaren to tour Australia and Hawke refused to authorise their selection, preferring instead to have the Yorkshire Committee pay them compensation.

Hawke advocated creation of a central selection committee and, soon afterwards, the MCC Committee agreed with his proposal.

He also co-founded the Welfare Committee for Chinese Students in 1990 and through it played a role in the Hawke government's eventual decision to give asylum to 42, 000 Chinese university students after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.

British MP and lawyer Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe, the Chair of the Assembly's Committee on Legal and Administrative Questions, guided the drafting of the Convention.

This personal statement to Parliament was not accepted by the MP who had asked the original question, and the matter was remitted to the House of Commons Standards and Privileges Committee for investigation.

In 2004, following a complaint made by Andrew Rosindell MP, Abbott was investigated by the Committee on Standards and Privileges regarding payment she had received from the BBC.

Sandys reported the matter to the Committee of Privileges who held that the disclosures of Parliament were not subject to the legislation though an MP could be disciplined by the House.

This was further confirmed by Mark Garnier MP who, when commenting on the FSA's negative reaction to a Treasury Select Committee ( TSC ) report on the RDR, stated that if the FSA chose to ignore the TSC there was nothing they could do about it.

In 2005 the Procedures Committee undertook an inquiry into the use of Sewel motions, and heard evidence from Lord Sewel, Henry McLeish ( the former First Minister of Scotland ), and Anne McGuire MP ( the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland ).

Bonar Law was dismissive of Wilson ’ s hopes that, like J. C. Smuts, he might be invited to join the War Policy Committee, and also poured cold water on the idea of Wilson becoming an MP.

In 1900, Henderson was one of the 129 trade union and socialist delegates, who passed Keir Hardie's motion to create the Labour Representation Committee ( LRC ), and in 1903, Henderson was elected treasurer of the LRC, and was also elected Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Barnard Castle following a by-election.

Its creation owed much to the efforts of working-class politician Will Crooks who had worked in the docks and, after chairing the LCC's Bridges Committee responsible for the tunnel, would later serve as Labour MP for nearby Woolwich.

When it was known that this was the likely outcome of the Select Committee, Bradlaugh's fellow Northampton MP Henry Labouchère initiated a debate on a motion to allow Bradlaugh to affirm.

A member of the Conservative Party, he is currently the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for the constituency of South Suffolk and the Chairman of the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee.

South entranceIts creation owed much to the efforts of working-class politician Will Crooks who had worked in the docks and, after chairing the LCC's Bridges Committee responsible for the tunnel, would later serve as Labour MP for Woolwich.

He is the longest-serving Asian MP and has been the Chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee since July 2007.

In July 2010 the union's National Executive Committee agreed to nominate and support Ed Balls MP for Labour leader in the 2010 leadership ballot.

Dennis Edward Skinner ( born 11 February 1932 ) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Bolsover since 1970, the Chairman of the Labour Party from 1988 to 1989, and has sat on the National Executive Committee numerous times since 1978.

He was a junior minister in the Home Office for Criminal Justice, Sentencing, and Law Reform from 2001-2, and then a backbench MP and member of the Health Select Committee.

Prior to being elected as an MP, John Denham served as a local Councillor, initially as a member of the Hampshire County Council in 1981, where he remained until 1989 when he was elected as a councillor on Southampton City Council, on which he served until 1993 and was the Chairman of the City's Housing Committee.

During her time as MP and before she became a PPS, Baird was active in the Parliamentary Committee system.

Before becoming an MP, King was on the European Parliament's Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee, and worked as a political assistant to Glyn Ford MEP, the Labour Party Leader in the European Parliament, and later Glenys Kinnock MEP.

He was a member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee of Aboriginal Affairs, but was otherwise not a prominent MP.

John Martin McDonnell ( born 8 September 1951 ) is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Hayes and Harlington since 1997 ; he serves as Chair of the Socialist Campaign Group, the Labour Representation Committee, and the " Public Services Not Private Profit Group ".

As a Labour MP, Woodward served on the Joint Committee on Human Rights, and was a prominent supporter of the Gender Recognition Act 2004.

Upon his election to Parliament, he served as a member of the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee, a prominent appointment for a newly elected MP.

He is the youngest MP on this Committee, which reports directly to 10 Downing Street and oversees the UK ’ s intelligence and security services.

During 1904 O ' Brien had already embarked on advancing full scale implementation of the Act in alliance with D. D. Sheehan MP and his Irish Land and Labour Association ( ILLA ), when they formed the Cork Advisory Committee to help tenants in their negotiations.