Catalogue description CROWTHER, James Gerald. British. CROWTHER first came to notice in 1929 as the scientific...

CROWTHER, James Gerald. British. CROWTHER first came to notice in 1929 as the scientific correspondent of the 'Sunday Worker'. He later carried out a similar function for the Manchester Guardian and by 1943 was editor of 'Soviet Science' and head of the Science Department of the British Council. In 1947 he was appointed secretary-general of the communist-dominated World Federation of Scientific Workers and in 1948 established the British Cultural Committee for Peace, later known as the British Peace Committee. He resigned as secretary-general of the WFSW in 1954 but remained on its executive committee until 1959