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journalists from reporting on the second front, and began collecting signatures for the letter. However after the protest letter was submitted, every person who had signed their name were subsequently questioned by
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and completed an officers' training course. He then entered a radar training course, but was then pulled from training and told that his communist beliefs would bar him from receiving a commission.
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and found guilty of leading this campaign, after which a major defence campaign was started and his sentence was lowered from imprisonment to being "bound over to keep the peace for two years."
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as a liberal studies lecturer. He kept this job for approximately a decade before retiring. As his eyesight begun to fail, he made frequent use of "talking book services".
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was barred from being able to send foreign correspondents to travel with
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was injured. While serving as a
Secretary of the League of Nations Youth, he broke into a secret trial in Nazi Germany to protest against members of the
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miners. While helping the miners, company police attacked Bill and broke his teeth. Afterwards he toured the United States visiting the states of
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in 'Lupton House. During his school years he was noted for enjoying rugby. He won a scholarship to study at Oxford
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