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  In Memoriam Bernard Braine
In 1977 Sir Bernard was responsible for the report "Alcohol and Work" which became known as the Braine Report.
Sir Bernard, both in Parliament and outside, pressed for the implementation of this policy, which was finally adopted in stages by the Department of Transport during the 1980s.
Lord Braine, as he became on leaving the Commons, had a wide range of interests.
www.ias.org.uk /resources/publications/alcoholalert/alert200001/al200001_p16.html   (2005 words)

  
  Bernard
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 The New York Review of Books: New Novels
Braine had a commendable faith in the possibilities of his character Joe Lampton, it also implied that his novelistic talents, which had never struck one as particularly fertile, were being forced into the sad and dangerous course of self-imitation.
Braine is by birth and upbringing a Yorkshire Catholic, it seemed significant that there was no mention at all of Catholicism in his novels, which in other respects drew heavily and obviously on the environments which had moulded him.
Braine's novel the Catholics of Charbury are mostly of second or third generation Irish origin, who still sardonically refer to themselves as "Micks" and who occasionally frequent, in a rather embarrassed way, a decaying institution called the Hibernian Club, with its portraits of the Pope, De Valera, and James Connolly.
www.nybooks.com /articles/article-preview?article_id=12985   (461 words)

  
 The Pillar of Belgrave Square   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Sir Bernard Braine M.P., being buttonholed by Herbert Sulzbach, "The Pillar of Belgrave Square", with Mrs Yvonne Klemperer whose mind is on other things.
In his humorous tribute Sir Bernard Braine MP, spoke of Sulzbach's force of personality and untiring energy as that of a saint though perhaps not officially recognised in the calendar of saints, "a cross between St. Paul and St. Vitus".
His life, Bernard Levin said at the same Memorial Service, "was infused by his profound and unshakable belief in the goodness of man. It enabled him to triumph over the setbacks of his own life broken by persecution and exile.
www.german-embassy.org.uk /the_pillar_of_belgrave_square.html   (487 words)

  
 BBC News | UK POLITICS | Tory stalwart dies
The former Conservative MP and peer, Sir Bernard Braine, has died at the age of 85.
Bernard Richard Braine did not have a typical Tory background: his father, who died when he was 12, was a Fabian Socialist.
Bernard Braine backed the Suez operation, opposed sanctions against Rhodesia, and in 1965 supported Enoch Powell for the Conservative Party leadership.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/592437.stm   (369 words)

  
 EIGHTH GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
(Braine) Graham was born on 6 Jul 1875 in Nova Scotia, Canada.
She was married to Laurence Bernard Wilfred Braine Dr (son of Robert Thomas Braine and Braine) on 11 Jun 1902 in Bear River, Annapolis Co, NS, Can.
Laurence Bernard Wilfred Braine Dr was born on 16 Nov 1879 in Halifax, NS, Canada.
www.go.ednet.ns.ca /~neil/revisedDB/d11393.htm   (259 words)

  
 Who's Who at CAADE: Profile of Lord Braine of Wheatley (Patron)
Known to all his friends and enemies alike as 'Bernard', he retired from the Commons in 1997.
Now in his 'eighties', Bernard still travels as much as he can but does spend a little more time at his home in Essex.
Bernard Braine MP took over the Patronship of CAADE after the death of our previous Patron, Baroness Phillips of Fulham in 1994.
website.lineone.net /~caade/LBraine.htm   (146 words)

  
 Hold The Back Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Two emerge almost immediately, one stooped and pigeon-toed, the other unnerved having interrupted with his head the flight of a greasy kebab cunningly camouflaged by a pint glass.
After all this was nothing if not a family occasion, opening with "Who the fucking hell are you" the all male choir ran through many of the old favourites concluding with a chorus of "We are the Reds".
Given the renewed controversy over the 'right to silence' surrounding the Winchester Three and the fit-up of Winston Silcott by the police, Red Action is proud to present dramatic evidence of the value of our own counter-interrogation techniques.
www.redaction.org /archives/back_page.html   (1340 words)

  
 The Builders   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
By Sir Bernard Braine MP THE SECOND World War ended with Germany ruined, occupied and divided.
of the Anglo-German Association 1957-1989, with Sir Bernard Braine MP at the Anglo-German Dinner Dance in 1987.
In the early stages, of course, our relationship was helped by the threatening behaviour of the Soviet Union.The blockade of Berlin brought home to the British people a realisation of the dangers we still faced and it led to admiration for the courage of the Berliners.
www.german-embassy.org.uk /the_builders.html   (797 words)

  
 CHRISTOPHER A LONG - Emerging Nations & Sir Bernard Braine
He made a thinly veiled offer to become the nation's monarch as the 'kingdom' in question was falling apart.
This letter to Sir Bernard did not, of course, instantly transform world affairs.
No publication, reproduction or exploitation of this material may be made in any form prior to clear written agreement of terms with the author or his agents.
www.christopherlong.co.uk /oth/nationhood.html   (775 words)

  
 The Baptist Standard :: The Newsmagazine of Texas Baptists
Dallas Baptist University recently dedicated the Lord Bernard Braine of Wheatley Room and Archives on the university campus.
Jill Reeves, executor of Braine's estate, presented his papers and other memorabilia to DBU, including handwritten speeches, press clippings, letters and photographs detailing more than 40 years in Parliament.
Braine served as a guest lecturer at DBU in 1988.
www.baptiststandard.com /postnuke/index.php?module=htmlpages&func=display&pid=1686   (1562 words)

  
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On July 14, Bernard Kiragu, who had been detained without trial for ten months, was killed in a shootout (in which a senior police officer was also killed) in the detention center at Nyayo House, Nairobi.
She dismissed criticism as "claptrap" and "bluster" and argued that Kenya's human rights record was better than that of many other developing countries and that its society was more open.
On November 19, three senior British Privy Counsellors, Sir David Steel, Sir Bernard Braine and Peter Shore, tabled a motion on Kenya's human rights record in the House of Commons.
www.hrw.org /reports/1992/WR92/AFW-03.htm   (5551 words)

  
 Paedophile Information Exchange - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Trustees decided not to publish the booklet, saying that it wasn't sufficiently 'objective'.
A year later a question was asked Parliament by Sir Bernard Braine but, despite a statement by Home Office Minister Brynmor John that there was no evidence of public money going to PIE, the issue was drawn out into 1978 in the letters pages of The Guardian and The Times.
In May 1977 the Guardian columnist Tom Crabtree wrote about PIE, saying they needed to 'come out into the open and argue their case where everybody can hear it'.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paedophile_Information_Exchange   (2200 words)

  
 Canada Bill - Final Reading   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
In the only formal vote Wednesday, MPs rejected by 140 to 28 an amendment that would have assured native people a veto over constitutional changes affecting their rights.
Braine spoke of "the revulsion felt by many of us" at passing the bill without added safeguards for native rights and said the federal government's policy towards Indians remains one of assimilation.
Conservative MP Sir John BiggsDavison urged a "moderate stay" in passage of the bill until Quebec's claim to veto over constitutional change is settled in court.
collections.ic.gc.ca /indian/a82feb03.htm   (347 words)

  
 CAADE | About The Campaign Against Age Discrimination in Employment
When sadly she died in 1994, her place was taken by Lord Braine of Wheatley, probably better known as Sir Bernard Braine, father of the House of Commons before Sir Ted Heath.
When Lord Braine died four years ago, Sir Fergus Montgomery took his place as Patron and has been with us for over fifteen years..
Founders Bernice and Philip Walker manage affairs on a day to day basis.
www.caade.net /html/about_us.html   (565 words)

  
 Arguments against UK Government cloning proposals
Sir Bernard Braine said in the House of Commons on 7
April 1990, "apart from cloning, genetic engineering and producing animal hybrids, the scientist will be able to do what he likes under the Bill" [which became the HFE Act 1990].
If this tissue carries genetic or chromosomal or other defects, it could prove very difficult to undo the damage wreaked on the brain or whatever organ is being treated.
www.spuc.org.uk /ethics/art/cloning-arguments   (1965 words)

  
 The Massacre and the Ministers
It was 1991, 19 months after the trial had ended in disaster for Tolstoy, before he began to make new inquiries about the missing papers.
The question was taken up by Sir Bernard Braine, the Conservative MP who was then father of the House of Commons (he is now Lord Braine of Wheatley).
After further correspondence with Hurd, Braine wrote to Tolstoy, again in terms that have not been revealed before.
www.serendipity.li /hr/mm.htm   (3935 words)

  
 West Berkshire Council - West Berkshire Council - Newbury Library's latest acquisition speaks volumes about British life   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Volume 7 starts with film producer Betty Box, who died in 1999, and closes with William Browell, a naval officer who fought the French in 1795.
Five members of the Bronte family are included, together with more recent novelists John Braine and Brigid Brophy.
MP Sir Bernard Braine, a former Father of the House of Commons is also present.
www.westberks.gov.uk /westberkshire/news.nsf/280e7f69bd69cf3385256990005344fa/c0b48f02e8796dbb80256f20004bed35?OpenDocument   (351 words)

  
 equality1
To take a later example, from 1948, there is Bernard Braine's prescience in Tory Democracy.
As for Bernard Braine's certainty that there will always be the rich, it must come to mind that there do now exist societies, whatever else is to be said for or against them, which plainly are without a class of the rich as we know them.
I trust that he can be brought to tolerate what has hitherto been thought to be a pretty firm proposition, that what is actual is possible.
www.ucl.ac.uk /~uctytho/whatequalityisnot.htm   (15353 words)

  
 The CLOVER Rewrite Rules: A Translation from OOFP to FP - Braine, Clack (ResearchIndex)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
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The CLOVER Rewrite Rules: A Translation from OOFP to FP.
10 Object-Flow - Braine, Clack - 1997 ACM DBLP
citeseer.ist.psu.edu /braine97clover.html   (559 words)

  
 Issue 2
Apparently the G.P.O. had strung up an inverted "V" aerial to the sole remaining 250 ft. high radar mast, while the actual transmitter was installed in a marquee nearby.
Early next morning (Monday June 22nd) I contacted the Rayleigh office of Bernard Braine, M.P. to inform him that the Socialist- instigated "jamming" of R.N.I. was now being conducted from his constituency.
Braine sent the following message, dated June 25th, to the newly appointed Minister for Post and Telecommunications, Mr.
www.monitormag.org.uk /guernseybranch/html/monitor2.htm   (10923 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | Obituary: Lord Aldington
After the nine-week trial, and Tolstoy's years of prevarication on payment, Aldington tried to end it all by offering to accept £300,000, but Tolstoy insisted on martyrdom.
He was backed by continuing support from Tory right- wingers, the latest of whom was Lord (Bernard) Braine, who accused then then foreign secretary, Douglas Hurd, of participating in an establishment plot against Tolstoy.
Events relating to the long-running cases punctuated Aldington's last decade.
politics.guardian.co.uk /politicsobituaries/story/0,1441,563440,00.html   (1217 words)

  
 p o l i t i c o s . c o . u k   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Buy Photo album of 28 photos of Sir Bernard Braine MP in the late 1940s now for £40.00
Photo album of 28 photos of Sir Bernard Braine MP in the late 1940s
Photos depict Bernard Braine at election meetings, with Conservative officials and Sir Anthony Eden.
www.politicos.co.uk /item.jsp?ID=4729   (76 words)

  
 "Undue Reverence" - Questioning national identity in the media coverage of the 1982 Falklands War.
These representations primarily focused on the brutality of the Argentinean regime and their lack of respect for international laws.
As the MP Bernard Braine argued "We are dealing here not with a democratic country that has some claim to the Falkland Islands - with which the matter could be thrashed out in a civilised way - but with a Fascist, corrupt and cruel regime" (HMSO, 3\4\82).
Firstly it must be acknowledged that Braine’s description of the Argentinean junta was absolutely true.
www.falklands-malvinas.com /skey.htm   (19038 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Edward Heath   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Jump to: navigation, search This article is about the British politician.
Sir Bernard Braine, Lord Braine of Wheatley (June 21, 1914 - January 5, United Kingdom.
The longest continuously serving member of certain national legislatures, most notably the House of Commons in the United Kingdom, is customarily designated Father of the House.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Edward-Heath   (7036 words)

  
 MAIN INDEX
BRAIN FAMILY - NOTES The Felix G. Robinson Papers
BRAINE, ROBERT - REF. IN PROGRAM NOTE (1930-4) Lawrence Gilman Papers
"Brains Trust" -Fan Mail The Barbara Ward (Baroness Jackson) Papers
gulib.lausun.georgetown.edu /dept/speccoll/mi/mi}234.htm   (712 words)

  
 Life Peerages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
There are a few cases, Lord George-Brown being the most infamous, where Peers have preserved their first names in hyphenated form in the Peerage Title: the Garter King of Arms insists on a corresponding change in surname if this is to be done, but the surname given here will be the original.
Those Peers who have anglicized names which were originally foreign are also given the original version, except where their English name is entirely different (so Lord Grade is given as Louis Winogradsky, while his brother Lord Delfont is given as Bernard Delfont).
Bernard Richard Braine (B. 24th June 1914, D. 4th January 2000)
www.election.demon.co.uk /lifepeers.html   (6735 words)

  
 British Eugenics Society - E
Beit Fellowships were founded by Otto John Beit (1865-1930) in honor of his brother, Alfred Beit (1853-1906).
He developed a method to measure brain waves accurately enough to give a very high correlation with conventional intelligence tests which, if true, would mean that his method of measuring intelligence is as valid and useful as conventional tests." from The Biographical Dictionary of Scientists (Biologists), article on "Eysenck", (ed., D. Abbott) 1984
Note also that Eysenck has "proved" the validity of a type of astrology with the same statistical methods that he uses to prove a genetic African IQ inferiority
www.eugenics-watch.com /briteugen/eug_e.html   (2571 words)

  
 HAYWARD: Fate of Jews in German Hands 6/9
What he did deny was that the camps were used by the Nazis to exterminate systematically Jews and others in gas chambers.
Some months after the British MPs received their complimentary copies of the report from Irving, Sir Bernard Braine, Father of the House (of Commons) and one of Britain's longest serving MPs, addressed an annual meeting in commemoration of the Warsaw Ghetto Fighters.
It was written by Bernard Levin, one of Britain's most popular and influential columnists - himself of Jewish ethnicity.
www.resistance.com /Hayward/hay6.html   (17839 words)

  
 The National Archives | Search the archives | National Register of Archives | Details   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Baruch, Bernard Mannes (1870-1965) American Businessman and Statesman (1)
Braine, Bernard Richard (1914-2000) Baron Braine of Wheatley (2)
Howard, Edmund Bernard Fitzalan- (1855-1947) 1st Viscount Fitzalan of Derwent (7)
www.nra.nationalarchives.gov.uk /nra/searches/pidocs.asp?LR=61   (3265 words)

  
 Castle Point Conservatives
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