Editing 1941 Committee (section)

{{Short description|Historic political grouping}}
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The '''1941 Committee''' was a group of British politicians, writers and other people of influence who got together in 1940.<ref name="time">[https://web.archive.org/web/20121102095414/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,772686-1,00.html  ''Time'' 21 April 1941]</ref> Its members comprised liberals, and those further left, who were not generally involved with a political party. Its immediate purpose was to press for more efficient production in order to enhance the war effort. This swiftly developed into discussion of the methods and mores by which the [[United Kingdom]] would be governed after [[World War II]]. The members met at the home of [[Edward George Warris Hulton|Edward Hulton]], the publisher of ''[[Picture Post]]''.