1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Woolwich East Constituency – Biography of Dutt

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Woolwich East

CANDIDATE : Dutt

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. P. Dutt, vice-chairman and founder member of the Communist Party in Britain, has played a prominent part in its central leadership since 1922. He is one of the foremost English-speaking exponents of Marxism. He was expelled from Oxford University, where he was a Balliol scholar, in 1917 for international socialist activities. He is a journalist and author.

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