ABSTRACT
By the end of 1915, the British Fellowship had fifty-five branches, including an Irish section, in places as far apart as Cardiff and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. A year later it appointed its third secretary, leyton Richards, after his return from a tour of America. Between 1934 and 1954 Muriel Lester frequently preached in the Far East and India, and in Central Europe, Palestine, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the Philippines, Ceylon, Greece, Pakistan, Beirut and Hong Kong. Since the death of George Lansbury, a totally different personality, Canon Raven d.d. has been almost the only British F.o.R. leader widely known outside pacifist circles. When the Second World War approached, the increasing concern of the British Fellowship for world poverty and industrial strife gave way to protests against the Government’s rearmament policy as embodied in the White Paper of 1935.
