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Fenner Brockway, a leading British democratic socialist of the Independent Labour Party, wrote in his book Britain's First Socialists:
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Other prominent founding members of CND were Fenner Brockway, E. P. Thompson, A. J. P. Taylor, Anthony Greenwood, Lord Simon, D. H. Pennington, Eric Baker and Dora Russell.
The patriotic stance of the CPGB was such that in 1943 at a by-election in Cardiff they actively campaigned for the Conservative Party candidate against Fenner Brockway, the Independent Labour Party candidate.
Future party chairman Fenner Brockway later recounted the revivalist mood of the gatherings of his local ILP branch gathering in 1907:
( The POUM was the ILP's sister party in the " Three-and-a-Half International " of democratic socialist parties, which the ILP administered and Fenner Brockway chaired for most if its existence in the 1930s.
In one such by-election in Cardiff, this was with the result that Fenner Brockway, the ILP candidate, found himself opposed by a Conservative candidate for whom the local Communist Party actively campaigned.
* 1931-1934: Fenner Brockway
With Fenner Brockway.
With Fenner Brockway.
Harry Pollitt, Communist Party, versus Fenner Brockway, Independent Labour Party, London: Communist Party of Great Britain, n. d. 1932.
* Fenner Brockway, African Socialism, The Bodley Head, London, 1963.
The pacifist Fenner Brockway claimed that he received so many white feathers he had enough to make a fan.
Statue of Fenner Brockway in Red Lion Square near Grays Inn Road, London
Archibald Fenner Brockway, Baron Brockway ( 1 November 1888 — 28 April 1988 ), was a British anti-war activist and politician.
Fenner Brockway joined the Independent Labour Party ( ILP ) in 1907 and was a regular visitor to the Fabian Society.
In 1916 Fenner Brockway was again arrested, this time for distributing anti-conscription leaflets.
Shortly after his release Fenner Brockway was arrested for a third time for his refusal to be conscripted, after being denied recognition as a conscientious objector.
Fenner Brockway stood for Parliament several times, including in 1924 in Westminster Abbey against Winston Churchill.
He polled 11, 111 votes and, immediately after the election, the Liberal candidate announced that Fenner Brockway had converted him to socialism.
With the rise of fascism in Spain, Fenner Brockway began to believe that it might be necessary to fight to preserve the peace in the long run.
Among those who went to Spain was Eric Blair ( better known as George Orwell ) and it is known that Fenner Brockway wrote a letter of recommendation for Blair to present to the ILP representatives in Barcelona.
Following the war Fenner Brockway rejoined the Labour Party.
* 1977 Towards tomorrow: the autobiography of Fenner Brockway
A statue of Fenner Brockway stands at the entrance to Red Lion Square Park in Holborn, London.
Fenner and British
* Archibald Fenner Brockway, British anti-war activist and politician
Fenner and Labour
From 1945 to 1983 most of the area presently covered by this seat was in the Eton and Slough constituency, whose radical Labour MP from 1950 to 1964 was Fenner Brockway.
Fenner and Party
Arthur Fenner ( December 10, 1745 – October 15, 1805 ) served as the fourth Governor of Rhode Island from 1790 until his death in 1805 and was a prominent Country Party ( Anti-federalist ) leader.
Fenner and book
In their book, Smallpox and its Eradication, Fenner and colleagues describe how vaccine supply shortages during the Biafra smallpox campaign led to the development of the focal vaccination technique, later adopted worldwide by the World Health Organization, which led to the early and cost effective interruption of smallpox transmission in west Africa and elsewhere.
Fenner himself was unable to fathom a motive, other than she was upset from reading Neville Shute's book, On the Beach.
With the previous work of Dudley Fenner ( 1584 ), and the later book of Charles Butler ( 1598 ), Ramist rhetoric in Elizabethan England accepts the reduction to elocutio and pronuntiatio, puts all the emphasis on the former, and reduces its scope to the trope.
Fenner and First
First Commander in Chief of the military forces of the Palatinate was Daniel Fenner von Fenneberg, a former Austrian officer who commanded the national guard in Vienna during the 1848 uprising.
Arthur and Amey Fenner were members of the First Baptist Church in America, at Providence.
Brockway and British
Brockway was born to W. G. Brockway and Frances Elizabeth Abbey in Calcutta, India, which was at that time under British Imperial rule.
* Robin Brockway, British actor
Brockway and Labour
The offices of the Labour Leader were raided in August 1915 and Brockway was charged with publishing seditious material.
In 1931 Brockway lost his seat and the following year he disaffiliated from the Labour Party along with the rest of the ILP.
Brockway and wrote
Brockway wrote over twenty other books on politics and four volumes of autobiography.
Brockway and book
In their book Men of Music, authors Wallace Brockway and Herbert Weinstock termed the piece an " atrocious potboiler ".
leading and British
* 1793 – French Revolutionary Wars: the city of Toulon revolts against the French Republic and admits the British and Spanish fleets to seize its port, leading to the Siege of Toulon by French Revolutionary forces.
It is referenced in the 2006 film Amazing Grace, which highlights Newton's influence on the leading British abolitionist William Wilberforce.
Over the past 400 years the form of the language used in the Americas — especially in the United States — and that used in the United Kingdom have diverged in a few minor ways, leading to the dialects now occasionally referred to as American English and British English.
Thomson's paper was published in the March 1904 edition of the Philosophical Magazine, the leading British science journal of the day.
While the British foreign affairs were in favour of support of the Canadian argument, the event resulted in what was thought of as a betrayal, leading to alienation of the British from the new nation of Canada.
Even this version had room for improvement, leading British Aerospace and the Italian firm Alenia to develop advanced versions of Sparrow with better performance and improved electronics as the BAe Skyflash and Alenia Aspide, respectively.
Several of the Commonwealth nations followed the British lead and sourced buses from British manufacturers, leading to a prevalence of double-decker buses.
While the British military historian Sir John Keegan suggested an ideal definition of battle as " something which happens between two armies leading to the moral then physical disintegration of one or the other of them ", the origins and outcomes of battles can rarely be summarized so neatly.
At the same time, Charlton's emergence as the country's leading young football talent was completed when he was called up to join the England squad for a British Home Championship game against Scotland at Hampden Park.
In AD 60 or 61, while the current governor, Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, was leading a campaign against the island of Mona ( modern Anglesey ) in the north of Wales, which was a refuge for British rebels and a stronghold of the druids, the Iceni conspired with their neighbours the Trinovantes, amongst others, to revolt.
Trapped in a crossfire, the leading French ships were battered into surrender during a fierce three-hour battle, while the centre was able to successfully repel the initial British attack.
Nelson then gave orders for his leading ships to slow down in order to allow the British fleet to approach in a more organised formation.
The Alerte was sent ahead, passing close to the leading British ships and then steering sharply to the west over the shoal in the hope that the ships of the line might follow and become grounded.
* In Scotland, Western Europe's largest hot strip steel mill Ravenscraig steelworks, near Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, was closed by British Steel in 1992, leading to huge unemployment in the area.
His acting credits include playing inmate Eugene Buffy in the ITV drama The Governor, and leading roles in the British films Fated and Clubbing to Death.
In 2009, Charles formed the Fantasy Funk Band, from the leading British musicians in the genre, and has presented the band at festivals, including Glastonbury.
Amongst the activities of the CPS were commissioning Gallup polls which showed the levels of support for British possession of nuclear weapons, providing speakers at public meetings, highlighting the left-wing affiliations of leading CND figures and mounting counter-demonstrations against CND.
Although widely used in naval warfare, and in anti-air guns, both the British and Americans feared unexploded proximity fuses would be reverse engineered leading to them limiting its use in continental battles.
Gordon Onslow Ford ( 1912 – 2003 ), a leading British surrealist painter, attended the Royal Naval College.
" His next order was to turn away by two points, and, in any case, a few minutes later he reversed his fleet's course to fulfill its anticipated role of leading the German forces towards the main British fleet.
John Locke, a leading philosopher of British empiricism
Some argue it has brought more flexible attitudes towards casting Black and Asian British actors, with Robbie Gee and Naomie Harris take leading roles in Underworld and 28 Days Later respectively.
John Fox Watson made a pioneering transfer to Real Madrid in 1948, becoming one of the first players from the British Isles to sign for a high-profile side abroad, leading the way for British players like John Charles, Jimmy Greaves and Denis Law in the following decades.
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