Labour Parliament Veteran
In World War II, Zilliacus worked for the Ministry of Information and joined the 1941 Committee. He was elected as MP for Gateshead in 1945 and became known as a left wing critic of government foreign-policy.
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“For now indeed is the race of iron; and men never cease from labour and sorrow by day and from perishing by night.”
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