A. K. Chesterton

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Arthur Kenneth Chesterton (1 May 1899 – 16 August 1973) was a British journalist and fascist political activist. From 1933 to 1938, he was a member of the British Union of Fascists (BUF). Disillusioned with Oswald Mosley, he left the BUF in 1938. Chesterton established the League of Empire Loyalists in 1954, which merged with the short-lived 1960s British National Party in 1967 to become the National Front, with Chesterton becoming its first chairman. He founded and edited the magazine Candour in 1954 as the successor of Truth, of which he had been co-editor.

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