[1] Other famous members included Emile Verviers [nl] (in secret) and Cornelis van Geelkerken.

Haighton visited Benito Mussolini who had just taken power after the March on Rome, and the relatively unknown Adolf Hitler.

In the summer of 1924, the party would merge with the Society for Constructive Politics (Dutch: Genootschap voor Opbouwende Staatkunde), a group of Catholic intellectuals led by Verviers.

[1] The group led by De Jong left the party in 1926 and joined the ultraconservatist Fatherland League (Dutch: Vaderlandsch Verbond).

Sinclair founded the De Bezem [nl] (The Broom) in 1928, and a group of VvA members including Haighton followed him.