From the September 1939 issue of the Socialist Standard
The following is an extract from a letter written by Mr. H. F. Gee, District Organiser of the Harrow Young Communist League, published in the Harrow Observer & Gazette (July 7th, 1939): —
“Our policy, then, is perfectly clear. We stand for a peace front of the democracies against Fascism, the removal of the National Government and the establishment of a Government of the people, which will carry out the obligations of the pact to the letter. Furthermore, given such a real stand against Fascist aggression, we would not only accept universal military service for all, but would mobilise the whole of the youth for the defence of democracy."
The letter's dated July 1939 but, by the time this Standard was published, the CP had already flipped its line and was denouncing the war as imperialist. I wonder if Mr Gee followed suit?
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