Word: kingsway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...platform of London's Kingsway Hall, eight teen-age boys & girls grinned and fidgeted in their chairs. Some chewed gum, others smoked cigarettes-and no one tried to stop them. It was a great day for the kids on the platform and for the handful down front listening: they were beginning a worldwide children's crusade, and they had nothing to lose but their chains. Their leader: bachelor Headmaster Robert Copping of Britain's ultra-progressive Horsley Hall...
...Wild Animals. He was planning a Union of the Rising Generation of the World to protect boys & girls not only rom the Wildmans of the world but from their own parents. After a quick leaflet campaign, he opened his crusade at Kingsway Hall. "If all the 12 million children in the country joined the union," he solemnly told his audience of 24 children and a few adults, "it would be the strongest body in England-and I think they would make a better job of running it than their elders...
...success, but Copping was not discouraged. Last week he began laying plans to divide Britain up into districts and to launch a recruiting drive. His enthusiasm was shared by at least one other adult-Cane Manufacturer Eric Wildman, who had dropped in to hear Copping's manifesto at Kingsway Hall. Wildman thought the Copping thesis might bring on its own swift reactionary antithesis, with more corporal punishment than before, and great benefit to canemakers. Said he: "This is a fine advert [-isement...