Catalogue description Kenelm Hubert DIGBY. British. DIGBY first came to notice in 1932 when he embarked for...

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Kenelm Hubert DIGBY. British. DIGBY first came to notice in 1932 when he embarked for Leningrad and in 1933 he was the proposer of the pacifist Oxford Union motion: 'That this House would in no circumstances fight for its King and Country'. After being called to the Bar and several years working as a District Officer for the Sarawak Government of Rajah Brooke, DIBGY was in 1939 legal adviser to the National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL) and a member of the legal group of the Communist Party. He was again in Sarawak from 1940 to 1951, latterly as a judge, and on return to the UK was again involved with the NCCL and with the Kenya Provisional Committee. In 1955 he emigrated to New Zealand

Date: 1932 Oct 09 - 1953 Jun 25
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: PF 42445 VOL 1
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Access conditions: Retained Until 2014
Record opening date: 28 February 2014

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