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...Wealth Party is the brain child of pious Sir Richard T. D. Acland, M.P., who believes socialism is the modern embodiment of Christian principles. He resigned from the Liberal Party to form the Common Wealth with Guerrilla Warrior Tom Wintringham, Independent Progressive M.P. Vernon Bartlett and Writer J. B. Priestley. Bartlett and Priestley quickly resigned...
...These young naval officers that we see about the place, all wearing terrific piratical beards, are now the lucky fellows," sighed Novelist J. B. Priestley in a BBC broadcast in which he modestly boasted that he had been using the same razor blade for a month. "Women say they dislike beards," said he, "but that, I fancy, is because women can't help having a secret and uneasy respect for the bearded male, a respect they don't feel for us smooth-faced fellows...
Common Origin. Common Wealth had its first discernible origin in 1940, when philanthropic, wildly socialistic, 36-year-old Sir Richard launched his Forward March Movement with the slogan: "Liberty, Equality, and Material Well Being." In early 1941, Author J. B. Priestley and a group of other intellectuals prodded the Churchill Government with a manifesto demanding a definition of Britain's war and peace aims, a more positive social consciousness...
Last year Priestley and Acland channeled their strength in a merger: the Common Wealth Party. Unhappy in the common harness, Priestley resigned. Sir Richard took sole charge...
...Writer J. B. Priestley, rich and liberal Sir Richard Acland and socialist M.P. Vernon Bartlett. the Common Wealth is demanding that one-third of the House of Commons resign and stand for re-election...