Lester Hutchinson

[8] Philip Spratt considered that Hutchinson might have been in touch with M. N. Roy, and knew of contact with Virendranath Chattopadhyaya, and that he was not a member of the CPGB.

[14] In September 1931 his mother met Mahatma Gandhi in London, and was told that the Meerut prisoners were not covered by the amnesty in the Gandhi–Irwin Pact of that year, because they were not non-violent.

[21] In 1946 he made a maiden speech in the House of Commons, including regretting "the traditional policy of bolstering up reactionary monarchs and decaying regimes wherever we can find them" and the impact it had had on diplomatic relations with the USSR.

[22] In March 1946 he spoke at a public meeting on behalf of anti-Franco Spanish prisoners, from camps in France, being held in the UK, along with George Orwell, Fenner Brockway and Elizabeth Braddock.

[24][25][26][27] At the beginning of that year, Hutchinson took part in the "peace tour" organised in the US by the Progressive Party, with Henry A. Wallace and Michele Guia.

[28] In February Labour's National Executive Committee told his presumptive constituency party (Manchester Ardwick) that there was a prospect he would not be endorsed in the future.

Hutchinson unsuccessfully stood for the Walthamstow West seat, won by Clement Attlee, whom he criticised for acting cautiously after becoming Prime Minister in 1945.

[33] He also produced an edition (1969) of two pamphlets by Karl Marx, Secret Diplomatic History of the Eighteenth Century and The Story of the Life of Lord Palmerston.