Item WINTRINGHAM 3/3/8 - Papers, 1942-1945, relating to general Common Wealth Party policies

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