Henry Noel Brailsford

HN Brailsford (born December 25, 1873 in Yorkshire , † March 23, 1958 ) was a British journalist.

Life and activity

Brailsford was the son of a Methodist preacher. He attended high school in Dundee. He broke off the academic career he had originally intended to become a journalist instead.

Brailsford became a household name in the 1890s as a foreign correspondent for the Manchester Guardian . In 1899 he settled in London, where he wrote for the Morning Leader and Daily News in the years that followed. A supporter of the suffrage movement for women, Brailsford quit working for the Daily News in 1909 in protest at the newspaper's endorsement of the force-feeding of hunger-striking suffragettes. As early as 1907, Brailsford had helped found the Men's League for Women's Suffrage , the organization of male advocates for women's suffrage . Politically, he was organized in the Independent Labor Party since the same year .

In parallel to his journalistic activity, Brailsford published a large number of books.

From 1913 to 1914 Brailsford was a member of the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace-funded international commission investigating the Balkan War of the time

On the occasion of the general election in 1918, Brailsford ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the British Parliament for the Labor Party. Instead, he toured the defeated countries of the just ended world war during 1919 and 1920. In two books - Across the Blockade and After the Peace (1920) - he described the devastating living conditions that prevailed in the defeated states as a result of the import blockade with which the British Navy had occupied the European continent during the war years.

Brailsford traveled to the Soviet Union in 1920 and 1926. He later published two books about his perceptions there.

From 1922 to 1926 Brailsford was the editor of the New Leader newspaper . During the 1930s he was a regular contributor to Reynold's News and New Statesman magazines .

Brailsford was a staunch critic of fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. He also published anti-colonial, anti-militarist and anti-militarist books such as Rebel India (1931) and Property or Peace? (1934).

As a result of his exposed opposition to the Nazi regime and his anti-militarist sentiments, Brailsford was classified by the National Socialist police as a public enemy of the German Reich: In the spring of 1940, the Reich Main Security Office in Berlin put him on the special wanted list GB , a directory of people who, in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British Isles by the Wehrmacht should be located and arrested by the occupying troops subsequent SS special commandos with special priority.

During the war years, Brailsford contributed a weekly column to Reynold's News.

marriage and family

In 1898 Brailsford married the women's rights activist Jane Esdon Malloch. They eventually separated but did not get divorced. She died in 1937 after many years of heavy drinking.

In 1944 Brailsford married Evamaria Perlmann for the second time, who had come to Great Britain as a refugee from Germany.

Fonts

• Broom of the War God: a novel , 1898.
• Some Irish Problems , 1903.
• Macedonia: Its Races and Their Future , 1906.
• Treatment of the Women's Deputations by the Police , 1911.
• The Fruits of our Russian Alliance 1912.
• Shelley, Godwin and their Circle , 1913.
• The War of Steel and Gold: A Study of the Armed Peace , 1914.
• The Origins of the Great War , 1914.
• Belgium and the scrap of paper , 1915.
• A League of Nations , 1917.
• A Share In Your Motherland and other Articles , 1918.
• Covenant of Peace; an Essay on the League of Nations , 1919.
• The Russian Workers' Republic , 1921.
• After the Peace , 1922.
• The Pros and Cons of PR A Plea for Reconsideration , 1924.
• Socialism for To-Day , 1925.
• The Living Wage , 1926.
• Families and Incomes , 1926.
• How the Soviets Work , 1927.
• Olives of Endless Age: Being a Study of this distracted world and its need of unity , 1928.
• Scrap Battleships! 1930.
• Rebel India , 1931.
• If We Want Peace , 1932.
• Property or Peace? , 1934.
• Towards a New League , 1935.
• Voltaire , 1935.
• Spain's Challenge to Labor , 1936.
• Why Capitalism Means War , 1938.
• Democracy for India , 1939.
• America our Ally , 1940.
• From England to America: A Message , 1940.
• The Habsburgs-Never again! , 1943.
• Subject India , 1943.
• Our Settlement with Germany , 1944.
• Making Germany Pay? , 1944.
• Fabian Colonial Essays , 1945.
• The Life-Work of JA Hobson , 1948.
• Essays, Poems and Tales of Henry W. Nevinson, chosen from hisWworks , 1948.
• Mahatma Gandhi , 1948.
• The Levellers and the English Revolution , 1961.