European Liberation Front

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European Liberation Front
Founder Francis Parker Yockey
Guy Chesham
John Anthony Gannon
Founded1948 (1948)
Dissolved1954 (1954)
Split from Union Movement
Ideology Pan-European nationalism
Third Position
Anti-Americanism
Anti-Zionism
Neo-Nazism
Political position Far-right

The European Liberation Front (ELF) was a neo-Nazi, pan-European nationalist group that split from Oswald Mosley's fascist Union Movement in 1948. [1] Its founder was Francis Parker Yockey, alongsidge Guy Chesham and John Anthony Gannon. [2] [3] It issued a manifesto called The Proclamation of London, written by Yockey. [3] [4] It lasted until 1954. [5] It would reach a maximum of 150 members [6]

Yockey´s domineering behaviour telling Guy Chesham to leave his wife, in Yockey´s words "to leave the bitch", and to follow him into Bohemia cost him Chesham´s support. [7]

Peter Huxley-Blythe was the only notable member of the organization, who had to suspend his participation in the organization due to being drafted into the Korean War. [7]

The organization would publish a pamphlet entitled, The Proclamation of London. [7]

Some point afterwards there was briefly a new organisation, which went by the same name that was created in its inspiration by Christian Bouchet. [8]

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