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John Baker White (12 August 1902 – 10 December 1988〔'(Members since 1979 )', House of Commons Library Research Paper 09/31, p. 190.〕) started his career as a political activist becoming a director of a private organisation dedicated to fighting left-wing subversion.〔Unattributed, John Baker White, ''Daily Telegraph'' 13 December 1988.〕 He became an amateur spy in Nazi Germany before becoming a propaganda agent during World War II. In 1945, he was elected a Conservative politician. He was also a journalist and author and his work reveals a colourful, possibly, eccentric personality. ==Career== Baker White graduated from Malvern College in 1920.〔(Spies at Work, Chapter 3, "Section D" ) Retrieved 11 January 2010〕 In the early 1920s he was a member of the Anti-Socialist Union and was part of a tendency within that group that sought to co-operate with the British Fascists.〔Stephen Dorril, ''Blackshirt: Sir Oswald Mosley & British Fascism'', Penguin Books, 2007, p. 196〕 He then worked for the Economic League, a privately funded anti-Communist pressure group and intelligence organization, serving as its Director from 1926 to 1939. Immediately before the war, he spent time in Germany as a spy; accepted there as an ardent anti-communist, he was invited to attend the Nuremberg Rally of 1937; he wrote about this experience in ''Dover Nurenberg Return''. After publicly exposing Nazi propaganda and fifth column activity, he was obliged to slip out of Germany in April 1939. In the early days of World War II, he joined Section D. He was a leading figure in Britain's propaganda campaign, including attempts to convince German soldiers of a failed German landing attempt along the south coast of England.〔Baker White, 1955〕 The job of Baker White and of his handful of co-workers was to cook up stories to be fed to the enemy and give him a quite false impression of the state of Britain’s defences. Writing in 1955, he recalled his wartime experiences in ''The Big Lie''. He was elected Member of Parliament for Canterbury in the 1945 General Election and served until 1953, when he left Parliament through the method of becoming Steward of the Manor of Northstead. The subsequent by-election was won by Leslie Thomas. He was also chair of the Freedom Association in Kent and he published four autobiographical books: ''It's Gone for Good'', ''The Big Lie'', ''Sabotage is Suspected'' and ''True Blue''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Baker White (British politician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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