ABSTRACT
Among other things, Jenks continued his investigation of British agricultural selfsufficiency and drafted ‘a programme of food production’ which would be a source for a major post-war project.2 The first outward sign of activity was an article in June 1942, appearing under the pseudonym ‘J.J. Zeal’, in The New English Weekly.3 That journal was started in 1932 by the late A.R. Orage, and became an important forum for those interested in economic reform and rural reconstruction. Jenks’ use of a pen name was presumably prompted by political caution but the one chosen expressed a powerful new enthusiasm, aroused by a fundamental transformation in his view of the world.
