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"George Woodcock writes that the committee 'led a precarious but active existence from 1944 to 1949. Its leading members were a mixed group of intellectuals, artists and political workers....Bertrand Russell, H. J. Laski, E. M. Forster, Herbert Read, Cyril Connolly, Benjamin Britten, Henry Moore, Osbert Sitwell and Augustus John were among its supports, and Orwell became vice-chairman.'
"It came into being because the National Council for Civil Liberties was
strongly influence by communists and fellow travellers and so chose not to
support the cuases of those non-communist intellectuals who fell foul of
government discrimination."
--Orwell's London, pg. 95.
