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6-520: The founders of the organisation were Charles Kimber , Derek Rawnsley and Patrick Ransome . Other noted members of the Federal Union included Harold Wilson , Barbara Wootton , C. E. M. Joad , Stephen King-Hall and Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian . In 1940 the group set up a Federal Union Research Institute (FURI), chaired by William Beveridge , to discuss the direction of post-war European integration . FURI attracted contributors from across

12-563: The politics of the United Kingdom , or its predecessor or constituent states, is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Europe-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Sir Charles Kimber, 3rd Baronet Sir Charles Dixon Kimber, 3rd Baronet (7 January 1912 – 10 April 2008) was one of the Kimber baronets . Charles Dixon Kimber was born at Godstone , Surrey, on 7 January 1912. His father

18-600: The best combination of democracy and effectiveness, and does not necessarily involve the bureaucratic centralisation of common assumption. The Federal Union believes that democracy and the rule of law should apply between states as well as within them. It is also the British section of the Union of European Federalists and of the World Federalist Movement/Institute for Global Policy . This article related to

24-593: The daughter of a member of parliament with whom he had three sons. In 1950, he married Margaret Bazalgette (née Bonham) and the couple had a son and a daughter. The couple divorced in the early 1960s. Kimber succeeded to the baronetcy in 1950. His father's son by his first marriage was killed in the First World War. Charles Dixon Kimber died on 10 April 2008. He was survived by two of his sons from his first marriage, and by his daughter from his second marriage. His eldest son, Sir Timothy Roy Henry Kimber , succeeded to

30-489: The political spectrum, including F.A. Hayek , J. B. Priestley , H. N. Brailsford , Lionel Robbins and Arnold Toynbee . In 1956 it argued for British participation in the European Economic Community . It continues to exist today, arguing for federalism for the whole of Europe and the world. The organisation argues that federalism is the division of political power between levels of government to achieve

36-745: Was Henry Dixon Kimber . He was educated at Eton College and Balliol College , Oxford, where he read history. He was at the debate at the Oxford Union in 1933 where the House resolved that it would not fight for King and Country . He was a conscientious objector during the Second World War during which he ran a market garden in Devon. He was secretary of the Labour Party in Totnes. Kimber first married Ursula Bird,

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