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Encyclopedia > A. F. X. Baron

Anthony F. X. Baron (born circa 1915) was a British far-right political figure in the 1940s and 50s who founded and headed the English branch of the Nationalist Information Bureau (NATINFORM). The term far-right refers to the relative position a group or person occupies within a political spectrum. ... // Events and trends The 1940s were dominated by World War II, the most destructive armed conflict in history. ... // Events and trends The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the height of the baby-boom from returning...


Baron was a supporter of Arnold Leese and attempted, with other Leese supporters in 1948, to establish a new group called the National Workers Party, with Baron as nominal leader. Doctor Arnold Spencer-Leese (1877-1956) was a noted veterinarian, anti-Semite and fascist politician, born in 1877 in Lytham, Lancashire, England. ...


Baron has been described as "a stocky man..., with the features of a professional boxer." (Tauber, 1967, p. 244) This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...


References

  • Fascism, Anti-Fascism and Britain in the 1940s by Dave Renton (Palgrave Macmillan, 2000, ISBN 0312225016).
  • Beyond Eagle and Swastika: German Nationalism Since 1945 by Kurt P. Tauber (Wesleyan University Press, 1967).
  • "Lost Imperium: the European Liberation Front (1949-54)" by Kevin Coogan in Patterns of Prejudice Volume 36, Number 3, July 01, 2002, p. 20 [1] (Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group, ISSN 0031-322X).


 
 

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