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Papers relating to the 1941 Committee of which Tom Wintringham was a member and which later merged with Forward March to form the Common Wealth Party. Includes leaflets explaining the purpose of the 1941 Committee; leaflet titled 'An open letter to the new war cabinet'; letters from Richard Acland, 24 May 1942 and letter to John Boynton Priestley, 13 Jun 1942, on their concerns about the future of the 1941 Committee and papers relating to the Nine Point Plan, the basis for the policy of the 1941 Committee, including first declaration of the nine point group, 2 May 1942 and draft of the expansion of point 7 and paper on the 'Attitude to the Labour Movement' of Forward March. 13 items.

Papers on the possibility of sending Tom Wintringham to set up a Home Guard in India including report by Wintringham 'Guerrilla warfare in India', 31 Mar 1942, sent to Gen Robert Lockhart of the India Office; correspondence on the subject with Lockhart, Sir Richard Stafford Cripps, Leader of the House of Commons, Indian organisations and Lt Gen Sir Ronald Forbes Adam Adjutant General to the Forces; letters of introduction of Wintringham to the Maharajahs of Jaipur and Jodhpur from the Earl of Jersey; draft letter from Wintringham to The Times on an Indian Home Guard, 7 Apr 1942; BBC broadcast by Wintringham, 'Indian talks: starting a Home Guard', 3 Jun 1942; broadcast for BBC Hindustani Service by Wintringham, 'Guerrilla warfare', 3 Jun 1942; letter from Wintringham to the American ambassador John Gilbert Winant on an Indian Home Guard, 26 May 1942 and press cuttings 'Congress in dilemma says Nehru', in the Star , 1 Jun [1942] and 'Nehru calls millions to fight', in Reynolds , 7 Jun [1942]. 1 file

Papers relating to the future of the Common Wealth Party following the Labour victory in the General Election, 1945, including statement by R D Best, 9 Aug 1945; statement by Common Wealth in the Middle East; memoranda on the future of Common Wealth by Richard Acland, Aug 1945 and Norman Clark, 8 Aug 1945; paper on the alternative possibilities for the Common Wealth Party with a questionnaire prepared for the Common Wealth Party national conference, 16 Sep 1945 and letter outlining the outcome of this conference. 13 items

Papers relating to the Common Wealth Party's policy towards Prime Minister Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill including policy on attitude to Churchill, by Richard Acland, Jul 1943; memorandum on 'coalition and Mr Churchill', by Tom Wintringham, Jul 1943; leaflet for private circulation only on 'Memorandum on Mr Churchill', Jul 1943; letter to Ronald William Gordon Mackay (Kim Mackay) from Rev James William Parkes on Churchill, 3 Jul 1943; 'The question of Winston Churchill' by Parkes and resolution of the working committee, Churchill memorandum, 18 Sep 1943. 7 items

Papers on Tom Wintringham's final articles 'Communist dilemmas' and 'Myth of the Individual', including typescript draft of 'Communist dilemmas', Jul 1949; 'Communist dilemmas' published posthumously by his widow Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham in three parts in the Picture Post, entitled 'The split in the Kremlin', 10 Dec [1949]; 'The Kremlin is divided too', 11 Mar 1950 and 'Victims of a frozen theory', 18 Mar 1950; letters in the Picture Post, 'On Wintringham and Washing', 8 Apr 1950, and 'Readers write against Wintringham', 15 Apr 1950; Soviet News, 8 Oct 1948 enclosing manuscript notes by Wintringham; letter from John MacMurray to Kitty advising against publication of 'Myth of the Individual' by Wintringham, 10 Nov 1949; and drafts of 'Myth of the Individual'. 1 file

Papers relating to Tom Wintringham's proposal to use peat to produce motor spirit, to be carried out in Shotts, Lanarkshire, including typescript proposal, Apr 1949; proposal for clearing a peat bog; paper on 'A hydro-peat scheme'; maps of peat bogs in Shotts; survey of peat in Scotland, manuscript notes and correspondence with the Scottish Reconstruction Committee. 1 file

Papers relating to the writing of Defence for Peace , an unpublished book by Tom Wintringham, including manuscript notes by Wintringham; letter from Penguin publishers, 3 Oct 1947; manuscript graphs charting the demobilisation of the British Army; letter to Wilfred Roberts, Labour MP on Richard Haldane's Army reforms, 21 Mar 1947; booklet by George Audit, 'Egypt and Labour Government'; and press cuttings on subjects relating to the Army and the War Office. 1 file

Papers relating to a libel charge threatened against Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham by United Steel Companies Ltd for a speech she gave as the Common Wealth Party candidate in North Midlothian, 6 Jul 1945 including correspondence with solicitors; transcript of Kitty's public apology and press cuttings '£2,000,000 factory closed down - why?', Daily Mirror , 14 Jun 1945 and 'Britain a richer nation', Edinburgh Evening News , 7 Jul 1945. 1 file

Papers relating to a libel charge Tom Wintringham brought against Sir John Jarvis MP, who, following the publication of Your MP , made a speech in Parliament asserting that Wintringham had "just served six months in prison for treason," including correspondence with solicitors, Victor Gollancz, Wilfred Roberts, George Collier, Tom Driberg and Arthur John Cummings; various legal documents including the statement of claim; copy of the address of the judge to Wintringham at his sentencing for sedition in 1925 and papers relating to the settlement. 1 file

Papers on the Common Wealth Party's election policy including document 'Common Wealth and the General election' on points discussed in the national conference; resolutions for by-elections and 'resolution on popular front and general election'; leaflet for private circulation on 'Common Wealth plan for the general election', Sep 1944 and draft leaflet on 'practical policy points for the general election'. 1 file

Papers relating to Your MP , a book by Tom Wintringham, published under the pseudonym 'Tiberius Gracchus', including draft typescript article by Wintringham, 'Muck raking: they said it', 9 Jun 1944 draft manuscript article by Wintringham, 'Manners maketh MPs'; press cuttings 'Mr Emtys-Evans and yellow book' and 'Birmingham Candidate issue writs', from Birmingham Gazette , 4 Jul 1945; extract from Hansard , speech by Mr Bartle Bull, 26 May 1944 and correspondence on Your MP with Victor Gollancz (publisher of Your MP ), Arthur Wynn, Basil Liddell Hart and others. 1 file

Papers relating to Tom Wintringham's election campaign as the Common Wealth Party candidate for Aldershot in the 1945 general election, including: Wintringham's campaign leaflet; campaign leaflets for the Common Wealth Party, the Labour Party and the Conservative Party; defamatory anonymous leaflets 'A call to all true socialists' and 'Damning the Tories' and related correspondence; flyers for public speeches; extract from minutes of Common Wealth meeting, 10 May 1944; drafts of a profile of Wintringham written by Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham for Wintringham's campaign leaflet; statement issued by the Communist Party on 'Who can beat Lyttelton?'; correspondence including letter from Wintringham to the Aldershot division of the Labour Party on forming an alliance against the Conservative Party, 27 May 1945; correspondence with the Aldershot Council on possibility of granting permission to hold public meetings in Manor Park and official papers including nomination paper and declarations of expenses. 1 file

Papers relating to the Common Wealth Party's annual conferences including report of the first annual conference, 24-26 Apr 1943; papers of the second annual conference , 7-10 Apr 1944, including first agenda, final agenda, list of members attending and constitution adopted at the annual conference; leaflets 'Common Wealth and the new year', Feb 1944 and 'Common Wealth in 1944' produced for the 1944 annual conference with drafts including original draft following a weekend discussion, 20-21 Nov 1943; report of the conference and papers of the third conference, 30 Mar-2 Apr 1945, including first agenda; supplementary agenda with amendments and report of the science under socialism policy sub-committee for inclusion in the first agenda. 14 items

Papers relating to the debate surrounding the third principle of the Common Wealth Party: 'Morality in Politics', supported by Richard Acland (President of Common Wealth), but contested by Tom Wintringham. Includes draft of Common Wealth pamphlet by Acland, 'It must be Christianity'; draft Common Wealth pamphlet with comments by Tom and Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham, 'Fellowship or morality?'; draft statements on the purpose and aims of the Common Wealth Party and suggested alterations to the Common Wealth Party's constitution; memorandum on political theory by Acland, Oct 1943; draft paper by James Hadham 'On trial: the Church', Nov 1943; article, 'The threefold Commonwealth', in The Church Militant , Jan-Feb 1944; 'resolutions drafted for the purpose of testing the opinion of the National Committee on issues which seem to be undecided in Common Wealth at the present time', Jun 1944; list [made by Wintringham] on problems with Acland, including his religious beliefs; excerpts from Rev James William Parkes' 'Christians in a revolutionary period'; commentary on various draft leaflets and other material for the Common Wealth Party relating to the subject of Christianity and morality and synopsis of a book 'Revolutionaries should be Christians'. 1 file. (For correspondence on morality and Common Wealth see 3/6/3 and 3/6/4).

Papers relating to the Common Wealth Party's international policy including 'The international aims of Common Wealth', by Tom Wintringham, 8 Sep 1942; manuscript transcript of speech given by Wintringham at a conference in Manchester; draft statements of the Common Wealth Party's world policy by Wintringham; draft statement on international policy by Rev James William Parkes, Chairman of the National Committee, Feb 1943; papers on India including draft statement on India by Lionel Fidden, Feb 1943; papers relating to Italy including Bulletin of the Italian Antifascist Federation, Sep 1943, bulletins in Italian, programme of the Italian socialist Party and a proposed statement on Italy; newsletter: 'The word of the soldier'; and invitation for Common Wealth meeting on the 'Italian situation', 20 Aug 1943; draft for pamphlet 'What happens abroad may affect our personal lives', by Kenneth Ingram , Jul 1943; transcript of speech given by Ingram for the 1944 conference on 'International affairs'; paper titled 'International situation', by Wintringham, 14 Jan 1944; Common Wealth monthly speakers note on Italy and Greece, Feb 1945; correspondence including letter from Rev James William Parkes to J A Evans on an amendment to the Palestine section of the resolution on international policy, 21 Mar 1945; draft of a policy statement on Spain; draft statement on Italy and North Africa and memorandum 'on a political tendency in Common Wealth' by Tom and Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham, Apr 1945. 1 file

Papers on the aims of the Common Wealth Party including article on 'our abiding purpose'; statement of aims; draft preamble to the constitution and draft manifesto. 1 file

Papers on resignations from the Common Wealth Party including draft resignation letter from John Boynton Priestley due to his political differences with Richard Acland, 13 Oct 1942; national committee's statement in response to the resignation of Priestley and Vernon Bartlett, 13 Oct 1942; newsletter explaining the resignation of J B Priestly and Vernon Bartlett to Common Wealth party members, 24 Oct 1942 and resignation letter of Ronald William Gordon Mackay (Kim Mackay), 6 Jan 1945. 5 items.

Papers on general the Common Wealth Party's policy including notes from a debate on censorship, 1942 Jul 1-2; article by Richard Acland, (President of Common Wealth) 'What shall the new order be? The case for common ownership', with draft amendments, 17 Aug 1942; Common Wealth Party news sheet entitled 'New war situation', Nov 1942; memorandum following the Beveridge report, 'Suicide or Phoenix act?'; précis of speeches made at the central hall meeting on policy, 16 Mar 1943; draft resolution on political action for Manchester, by Tom Wintringham, 16 Mar 1943; draft paper titled 'Common Wealth and the political crisis'; draft paper by John Boynton Priestley on the need for Britain to make a 'peace effort'; transcript of Acland's speech in the House of Commons on the prolongation of parliament bill, 26 Oct 1943; paper produced by a committee appointed by the National Committee to analyse the 16 points put forward by James Hemming, 1944 Sep 6; paper by Wintringham on the Common Wealth Party's policies on the war, government and other political parties; draft for pamphlet on the Nine Point Plan , originally created by the 1941 Committee and adopted into Common Wealth policy; 'Memorandum on a political tendency in Common Wealth' by Wintringham; paper on 'The ideal community' by Sir Robert Grieg; paper on 'Europe and peace'; draft paper on 'Alliance of working and active middle classes'; paper on 'Common Wealth and the Beveridge report'; memorandum on the condition of Common Wealth's finance department, 22 Jul 1943; resolution on the line of speeches, comments made by a member of the public on the Common Wealth five year plan and chart demonstrating structure of the Common Wealth Party policy department. 1 file

Papers relating to the Common Wealth Party's policy on women including final draft of the women's policy sub-committee and drafts of pamphlets dealing with the relations between men and women. 3 items

Papers on relations between the Common Wealth Party and other left wing organisations (excluding the Labour Party) including the Common Wealth Party's draft statement on Marxism, 11 Sep 1942; report on the co-operative movement and the five year plan; report entitled 'A call for left unity'; report on Common Wealth in the present political situation, 8 Dec 1943; report on the Daily Worker unity conference, 2 Apr 1944; and papers on the Communist Party including article, 'Common Wealth and the Communist Party of Great Britain'; article by Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham, 'Revolutionary Pollitt-ics?', on answers given by Harry Pollitt on questions about the Common Wealth Party, 31 Jun 1944; letter to be published in unknown newspaper to Pollitt on behalf of the Common Wealth Party on whether Socialism and Capitalism can co-operate; transcript of speech by Pollitt at Albert Road schools, Birmingham, 4 Jun 1943 and paper entitled 'Material in answer to Communist charges', instructing Common Wealth Party members on how to respond to criticisms made by the Communist Party. 1 file