Geoffrey Stewart-Smith - After Parliament

After Parliament

Stewart-Smith decided not to seek re-adoption but to concentrate on publishing anti-communist literature, mainly through the Foreign Affairs Publishing Company, of which he was a Director. The company lasted until it went into liquidation in 1986. He was Director of the Foreign Affairs Research Institute from 1976 to 1986, and Director of the Foreign Affairs Circle, and the Freedom Communications International News Agency. He was editor of the East-West Digest, and a regular columnist in the Financial Times from 1968. He was a City of London Liveryman, belonging to the Grocers' Company.

In 1974, he sought to distance his Foreign Affairs Circle from the World Anti-Communist League because of the WACL's perceived strong anti-Semitic element, saying: "We wouldn't touch them with a barge pole." However, he later admitted that another of his organisations, the Foreign Affairs Research Institute, had been mainly funded by the South African government. In 1978 he issued a press statement about what he claimed was the growing number of ex-communists and left-wing extremists in the Labour Party.

Stewart-Smith was a leading activist in the Conservative Monday Club and in 1966 was chairman of its foreign affairs study group. In March 1975, he was one of the principal speakers at the Club's successful two-day Conference in Birmingham, the theme of which was "The Conservative Party and the Crisis in Britain". In later life, Stewart-Smith suffered financial trouble and in 1990 he was evicted from his flat for non-payment of rent.