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With the onset of the Second World War and paper rationing, New Writing's future was uncertain and so Lehmann wrote New Writing in Europe for Pelican Books, one of the first critical summaries of the writers of the 1930s in which he championed the authors who had been the stars of New Writing-Auden and Spender-and also his close friend Tom Wintringham and Wintringham's ally, the emerging George Orwell.

Wintringham and who
Wintringham advised that a tank that was isolated from supporting infantry was potentially vulnerable to men who had the required determination and cunning to get close.
The origins of the Home Guard can be traced to Captain Tom Wintringham, who returned from the Spanish Civil War and wrote a book entitled How to Reform the Army.
Common Wealth was founded in July 1942, during World War II, by the alliance of two left wing groups, the 1941 Committee – a think tank brought together by Picture Post owner Edward G. Hulton, and their ' star ' writers J. B. Priestley and Tom Wintringham – and the neo-Christian Forward March movement led by Liberal Party Member of Parliament ( MP ) Richard Acland, along with independents and former Liberals who believed that party had no direction.
Maj. Wilfred Vernon taught the art of mixing home made explosives, and his explosives store can still be seen at the rear of the house, while Canadian Bert " Yank " Levy, who had served under Wintringham in the Spanish Civil War taught knife fighting and hand to hand combat.

Wintringham and for
The first of these friendships began when Margaret Wintringham was elected after Astor had been in office for two years, but the most surprising might have been her friendship with " Red Ellen " Wilkinson, a former Communist representative in the Labour Party.
* Quentin Cooper, presenter of Radio 4's Material World, and film correspondent for BBC Radio 2 grew up in the town, attending Wintringham School
* Ernest Worrall ( 1898 – 1972 ), painter known for works depicting Grimsby during World War II, lived in the town from 1932 until the 1960s and taught at Wintringham Grammar School.
In the book, as well as a large number of regular army reforms, Wintringham called for the creation of twelve divisions similar in composition to that of the International Brigades which had been formed in Spain during the conflict ; the divisions would be raised through a process of voluntary enlistment targeting ex-servicemen and youths.
Ex-Communist and Spanish Civil War veteran Tom Wintringham, a journalist and key advocate of the LDV and later the Home Guard, opened a private training camp for the LDV at Osterley Park, outside London, in early July 1940.
B. Priestley, and Tom Wintringham the group called for common ownership, " vital democracy " and morality in politics.
As the party formed, Wintringham graduated from Oxford and moved to London, ostensibly to study for the bar at the Temple, but in fact to work full time in politics.
In LM articles and in booklets on the subject, Wintringham formed the arguments against Air Assault and called for ARP precautions several years before Guernica.
Wintringham's ideas became party dogma when the Comintern announced the ' Popular Front ', a form of communism Wintringham was prepared to fight for.
At the start of the Spanish Civil War, Wintringham went to Barcelona as a journalist for the Daily Worker, but he joined and eventually commanded the British Battalion of the International Brigades.
On returning from Spain Wintringham began to call for an armed civilian guard to repel any fascist invasion, and as early as 1938 had begun campaigning for what would become the Home Guard.
At the outbreak of World War II, Wintringham applied for an army officer's commission but was rejected.
The grounds of Osterley Park were used for the training of the first members of the Local Defence Volunteers ( forerunners of the Home Guard ) when the 9th Earl, a friend of publisher Lord Hulton, allowed writer and military journalist Captain Tom Wintringham to establish the first Home Guard training school ( which Hulton sponsored ) at the park in May / June 1940, teaching the theory and practice of modern mechanical warfare, guerilla warfare techniques and using the estate workers ' homes, then scheduled for demolition, to teach street fighting techniques.
When the call came from Lord Kitchener for volunteers, the headmaster of Wintringham Grammar School in Grimsby decided to raise a 250-strong company of former pupils which would be offered to one of the local Territorial battalions.
Committee members were responsible for the publication of two anonymous best-selling books: Guilty Men by Cato ( Driberg, Foot and Wintringham ) and Your M. P.
* Thomas Wintringham ( 15th-century MP ), in 1406 MP for Northampton ( UK Parliament constituency )

Wintringham and New
New Ways of War by Tom Wintringham

Wintringham and Writing
* War of Words: The Life and Writing of Tom Wintringham, an exhibition.

Wintringham and time
The roof was built in 1376 by William Wintringham, producing the widest hall, unsupported by pillars, existing in England at the time.
The Wintringham volume had been republished in the lead up to the 1945 general election, and widely acknowledged at the time as a major factor in shifting public opinion away from the Conservative party.

Wintringham and .
Wintringham, though enthusiastic about improvised weapons cautioned against a reliance on petrol bombs and repeatedly emphasised the importance of using explosive charges.
by Tom Wintringham, both published during the war and largely discrediting Tory M. P. s as appeasers and war profiteers.
The school's former students ( Old Greshamians ) include Benjamin Britten, W. H. Auden, Lord Reith, Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, President Erskine Childers, Sir Christopher Cockerell, Donald Maclean, Sir Lennox Berkeley, Sir Stephen Spender, Tom Wintringham, Sir James Dyson, Ralph Firman, Sir Peter Brook, Sebastian Shaw, Sienna Guillory and Michael Cummings.
Taylor himself was recruited into the Communist Party of Great Britain by a friend of the family, military historian Tom Wintringham, while at Oriel ; a member from 1924 to 1926, he broke with the Party over what he considered to be its ineffective stand during the 1926 General Strike.
George Orwell and Tom Wintringham made especially extensive use of the term " blimps ", Orwell in his articles and Wintringham in his books How to Reform the Army and People's War, with exactly the above meaning in mind.
She attended Wintringham School in Grimsby.
Margaret Wintringham succeeded her dead husband at the Louth by-election in September 1921, to become the Liberals ' first female MP, and Britain's third female MP.
After September 1940 the army began to take charge of the Home Guard training in Osterley, and Wintringham and his associates were gradually sidelined.
Wintringham resigned in April 1941.
Ironically, despite his support of the Home Guard, Wintringham was never allowed to join the organisation himself because of a policy barring membership by communists and fascists.
He went to Welholme Primary School on Heneage Road, then Wintringham School on Weelsby Avenue in Grimsby.
The ' Grimsby Chums ' was formed by former schoolboys of Wintringham Secondary School in Grimsby.

reintroduced and Lane
This practice prevailed until William Macready reintroduced the lines in 1841 in a production at Drury Lane, although they were still being removed as late as 1952, in Denis Carey's production at the Bristol Old Vic.

reintroduced and Books
The first, Arcana: The Books of Magic Annual, reintroduced Tim Hunter and launched the ongoing series.

reintroduced and who
Isabella was reintroduced to Mortimer in Paris by her cousin, Joan, Countess of Hainault, who appears to have approached Isabella suggesting a marital alliance between their two families, marrying Prince Edward to Joan's daughter, Philippa.
It was reintroduced to western Europe on the eve of the First World War by a Russian company: the Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev, who came to be influential around the world.
In examining the reasons behind losses and achievements, the British, and the Colonial contingents, reintroduced the concept of the infantry platoon, following in the footsteps of the French and German armies who were already groping their way towards the use of small tactical units.
Harvey was reintroduced to Beefheart's music by Parish, who lent her a cassette copy of Shiny Beast ( Bat Chain Puller ) at the age of 16.
Ironically, FitzGerald's translations reintroduced Khayyám to Iranians " who had long ignored the Neishapouri poet.
The Schilling was reintroduced after World War II on November 30, 1945 by the Allied Military, who issued paper money ( dated 1944 ) in denominations of 50 Groschen up to 100 Schilling.
At the same time as black players were being reintroduced to the NFL, there was also an influx of players from the Southern United States, who held particular hostility toward blacks ; this discouraged several black players from playing in the NFL, with some opting to go north to what would become the Canadian Football League, which was at its peak of competitiveness with the NFL at the time.
It was Michael Doyle ( 1983, 1997 ) who reintroduced Kant's three articles into democratic peace theory.
The sari is worn as daily wear by Pakistani Hindus, by elderly Muslim women who were used to wearing it in pre-partition India and by some of the new generation who have reintroduced the interest in saris.
In 1983, when GM reintroduced convertibles, 1976 Eldorado owners, who felt they had been deceived, launched an unsuccessful class action lawsuit.
They were reintroduced to the area by the RSPB and English Nature with assistance from Paul Getty, the American millionaire and philanthropist, who allowed use of the Wormsley estate.
He was reintroduced by Vince McMahon on Raw as the replacement for color commentator ( and Alliance member ) Paul Heyman, who had been ( kayfabe ) fired in the aftermath of the Alliance's loss at the previous night's Survivor Series.
Some animals of the Rock have been reintroduced by the Alameda Wildlife Conservation Park who have three Barbary macaques.
Gratidianus was killed under Sulla, who introduced his own anti-forgery law ( lex Cornelia de falsis ), that reintroduced serrated edges on precious metal coins, an anticounterfeiting measure that had been tried earlier.
Plane of Growth also reintroduced the notion of Planar armor, providing a full set for most classes except druids, paladins, and rangers who went into a new second floor of the Plane of Hate.
Upon the death of Belus, his uncle Ninus became king and then married his own mother who was previously called Rhea but is now reintroduced under the name of Semiramis.
Kahlo, who had first met Rivera as a school girl in 1922 when he was painting his first mural The Creation in the Bolívar Auditorium of the National Preparatory School in Mexico City, is reputed to have been reintroduced to Rivera in 1928 at a party in Modotti's home, although there are other versions of the tale of their meeting.
On February 17, 2011, Senator Olympia Snowe ( ME ) and on May 24, 2011, Representative Steve Israel ( NY-2 ) reintroduced legislation in the Senate and House, respectively, that the Secretary of Defense concerned may issue a service medal, to be known as the ` Cold War Service Medal ', to Cold War veterans who meet the criteria.
McMahon reintroduced the championship two months later and gave it to Mideon, who saw the title belt in Shane's travel bag and asked if he could have it.
Three of Deram's earliest hits, Procol Harum's " A Whiter Shade of Pale " and The Move's " Night of Fear " and " I Can Hear the Grass Grow ", were not by artists actually signed to Deram ; they were part of a deal with Straight Ahead Productions, who moved their acts to EMI and had them released on the reintroduced Regal Zonophone imprint.
Simitian, who led a successful fight to ban motorists from sending text messages and using hand-held phones, has reintroduced a bill that failed last year to fine bicyclists $ 20 for similar multitasking.
Roman style public baths were reintroduced to England by returning crusaders in the medieval period, who had enjoyed warm baths in the middle east.
Heenan also had a famous feud with The Ultimate Warrior, who reintroduced Heenan to Weasel Suit matches, which Heenan had during his time in the AWA.

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