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sympathies. Having come into conflict with the Labour Party leadership, he was expelled from the party in 1949. In 1950 he lost his seat in parliament, was re-admitted by Labour in 1952, and returned to the Commons in 1955.
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and in 1961 was suspended from the party for several months for writing an article for a Czech magazine. Zilliacus was a prominent pacifist, pushing for less spending on arms and nuclear testing during the 1950s and
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Zilliacus was a firm believer in the power of multinational organizations to prevent war, but he could not lead British foreign policy to work through the League. He worked diligently for the League of Nations until
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but was denied for physical reasons. Instead, he found work as an orderly for a French medical unit near the front lines. Soon invalided out of the medical corps with
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that he had given information to Zilliacus while "planning the restoration of capitalism in Czechoslovakia"; Zilliacus dismissed the accusation as "quite fantastic".
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Zilliacus married, in 1919, Eugenia Nowicka, a 19-year-old Polish woman revolutionary whom he had met while in Siberia. She took the name Eugenia Nowicka Zilliacus.
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to the press. In 1919, newly married to Eugenia Nowicka and with a recently-born daughter, Stella Zilliacus, he joined the British Labour Party.
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James Cotton ‘"The Standard Work in English on the League” and Its Authorship: Charles Howard Ellis, an Unlikely Australian Internationalist’,
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Zilliacus spoke nine languages fluently and international issues absorbed much of his energy, both as an official of the
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policies and frequently contributed articles to liberal British publications, but he was not affiliated with the
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Abyssinia: The Essential Facts In The Dispute and An Answer To the Question -"Ought We To Support Sanctions?"
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Why We Are Losing the Peace: The National Governments Foreign Policy its Causes Consequences and Cure
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Zilliacus never married his arguably more important or better-known "wife", Jan Trimble, daughter of
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Between Two Wars? The Lessons of the Last World War in Relation to The Preparations for The Next
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called him one of the "crypto-communists in Westminster." 1949, Zilliacus voted against joining
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Chapter 4: Manchurian Crisis. Archie Potts 『Zilliacus: A Life for Peace and Socialism』(2002)
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Dragon's teeth : the background, contents and consequences of the North Atlantic Pact
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Zilliacus was frequently accused of being a communist because he was sympathetic to
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he wrote speeches for the League's committee for Cooperation with China along with
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Zilliacus campaigned for less spending on weapons. He was a founder member of the
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Chapter 3 Geneva, Archie Potts 『Zilliacus: A Life for Peace and Socialism』(2002)
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Simkin, John. "Konni Zilliacus" at historiasiglo20.org, accessed on 10/27/13.
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in 1945 and became known as a left-wing critic of government foreign policy.
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Inquest on Peace: An Analysis of the National Government's Foreign Policy
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James Cotton:『‘"The Standard Work in English on the League”'』(2016)
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volunteer and, until her death in 1999, a stalwart of the local (
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In 1952, he was readmitted to the Labour Party, and he won the
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policies. In 1949, he was expelled from the party, along with
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Being multilingual, he found work as the British envoy to the
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in the post-war period. He was widely considered to have had
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Can the Tories Win the Peace? And How They Lost the Last One
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The Origin Structure & Working of the League of Nations
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Zilliacus wrote under several pseudonyms, as given here.
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Origins, Structure, and Working of the League of Nations
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Mirror of the present : the way the world is going
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A New Birth of Freedom? World Communism after Stalin
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The Mirror of the Past - Lest it Reflect the Future
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London: George Allen & Unwin. 567:. London: George Allen & Unwin. 549:. London: George Allen & Unwin. 351:the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia 205:, a Finnish independence activist. 13: 1268:British people of American descent 1263:British people of Scottish descent 1073: 666:. Left Book Club. Victor Gollancz. 51:26 May 1955 – 6 July 1967 14: 1309: 1283:People educated at Bedales School 1258:British people of Swedish descent 1253:British people of Finnish descent 929:National Portrait Gallery, London 907: 684:. London: British-Soviet Society. 682:Britain, U.S.S.R. and World Peace 520:areas of London, where she was a 1110:The Bulletin and Scots Pictorial 803:Parliament of the United Kingdom 500: 478:Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament 399:Communist Party of Great Britain 195:Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament 1168: 1142: 1133: 1124: 1115: 1102: 1064: 1055: 893:Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages 767:. London: Secker & Warburg. 635:The Czechs and their Minorities 436:. He sought re-election in the 409:and remained an open critic of 223:Konrad Viktor (Konni) Zilliacus 1034: 1025: 1016: 1007: 998: 989: 980: 971: 962: 166:from 1945 until 1950, and for 1: 1278:Members of the Fabian Society 1273:British people of World War I 881: 485:during the 1960s. He died of 356: 284:League of Nations Secretariat 208: 1089:The Left in Britain, 1956-68 925:Portraits of Konni Zilliacus 888:Spartacus on Konni Zilliacus 248:, he applied to the British 7: 1112:, 21 November 1952, (pg. 1) 951:20th Century Press Archives 655:. London: Victor Gollancz\. 547:The League of Nations Today 389:Expulsion from Labour party 365:, Zilliacus worked for the 258:Union of Democratic Control 10: 1314: 675:. London: Victor Gollancz. 558:. League of Nations Union. 1176:"Obituary: Jan Zilliacus" 869: 850: 842: 816: 808: 801: 781:Zilliacus, Konni (1963). 752:Zilliacus, Konni (1955). 732:Zilliacus, Konni (1949). 704:. Harmondsworth: Penguin. 693:. 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Zilliacus (1947). 633:Diplomaticus (1938). 474:1955 general election 438:1950 general election 296:. In 1931 during the 145:6 July 1967 (aged 72) 1293:Deaths from leukemia 853:Member of Parliament 819:Member of Parliament 790:K. Ziliacus (1966). 785:. London: Gladiator. 472:constituency in the 464:Return to parliament 446:Communist Yugoslavia 217:, the son of exiled 160:Member of Parliament 80:Member of Parliament 34:Member of Parliament 1150:"Eugenia Zilliacus" 651:Vigilantes (1939). 642:Vigilantes (1939). 624:Vigilantes (1938). 615:Covenanter (1936). 606:Vigilantes (1935). 597:Vigilantes (1935). 588:Vigilantes (1933). 260:and worked for the 219:Finnish nationalist 744:Tito of Yugoslavia 736:. London: Collets. 734:Why I was expelled 646:. 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Index

Member of Parliament
Manchester Gorton
William Oldfield
Kenneth Marks
Gateshead
Thomas Magnay
Member of Parliament
Gateshead
Manchester Gorton
Labour Party
League of Nations
House of Commons
communist
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Vietnam War
Konrad Viktor Zilliacus
Kobe, Japan
Finnish nationalist
Konrad Viktor (Konni) Zilliacus
Bedales School
Hampshire
Josiah Clement Wedgwood
Yale University
World War I
Royal Flying Corps
diphtheria
Union of Democratic Control
Liberal Party
Noel Buxton
Norman Angell

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