COMMUNISTS AND SUSPECTED COMMUNISTS, INCLUDING RUSSIAN AND COMMUNIST SYMPATHISERSKV 2/38091932 Oct 09 - 1953 Jun 25
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