Total Disarmament, Or, An International Police Force

[RUSSELL, Hastings William Sackville], THE DUKE OF BEDFORD

Published by The Strickland Press, Glasgow, 1948

About this Item

Original, saddle-stapled, tan wrappers printed in black; 20, [4] pp. (includes covers). The Duke of Bedford, previously Lord Tavistock, was a noted ornithologist and naturalist who became an ardent supporter of Social Credit. His economic reformist tendencies informed his pacifism, which is the subject of this pamphlet. In 1939 he became a founding member of the British People's Party, a Social Credit-influenced, anti-war group, which included prominent ex-members of the British Union of Fascists. He went to great lengths to negotiate for peace with Germany during the war and never renounced his pro-German tendencies. He died in 1953 at age 64 of a disputed self-inflicted gunshot wound. Bizarrely, his pamphlets were published by The Strickland Press, founded by the British anarchist-communist, Guy Aldred (1886-1963), who received posthumous patronage from the eccentric 'anarchist baronet', Sir William Strickland (1851-1938). Anti-war efforts certainly made strange bedfellows.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Total Disarmament, Or, An International Police Force
• Publisher: The Strickland Press, Glasgow
• Publication Date: 1948
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First edition.
• Seller catalogs:
  • Peace Studies
  • Anti-War & Pacifism
  • Far Right