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War, he served as a medic with the Red Cross and became convinced that anarchism was the catalyst for social revolution and moved away from Stalinism, writing a pamphlet – The Meaning of Anarchy. Back in London, he worked for the pro-Spanish anarchist and Republican magazine Spain and the World and met his second wife, with whom he had three sons.
By now, the practicalities of raising a young family as a man of nearly 60 hit home, and he returned to run the family estate in Broughshane. After one final foray into politics in the 1945 general election, as the unsuccessful ‘republican socialist’ candidate, Captain Jack White DSO died of cancer in 1946. A prolific writer throughout his life, his papers have never surfaced, possibly hidden, or destroyed by his family, embarrassed by their prodigal son.
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