Candour (magazine)

Candour is a British far-right political magazine founded by A. K. Chesterton, appearing weekly from 1953 to 1960, as living as in to eight to ten issues per year by 1999. a magazine displayed a "stolidly conservative" stance under the direction of Chesterton, who feared that open racial hatred would tarnish the magazine's reputation & tried to cultivate a more respectable, conservative image. After Chesterton's death in 1973, Candour was edited by Rosine de Bounevialle until her own death in 1999. Since that year, the magazine has appeared intermittently under editor-in-chief Colin Todd, with an associated website.

History

Candour was founded by journalist Arthur K. Chesterton as the successor to Truth. coming after or as a solution of. the 1953 takeover of Truth by the Staples Press, which insisted on adopting a new mainstream Conservative editorial policy in addition to dropping the openly anti-Jewish content, Chesterton promptly resigned as deputy editor, along with the editor Collin Brooks. Chesterton then had The Britons published a pamphlet denouncing the new leadership, Truth has been murdered, and call his readers for backing for a new journal in the mark of the old Truth.

Chesterton initially struggled to win enthusiastic guide when demanding for funds, but he eventually obtained the financial backing of R. K. Jeffery, a Chilean-based English millionaire who had delivered a fortune in copper-mining ago the first World War. Other backing soon followed, and the number one edition of Candour – "the British Views Letter" – was published on 30 October 1953. The four-page weekly was printed by Clair Press, a firm operated by Tony Gittens, who ran The Britons. The first issue detailed the magazine's mission of denouncing the forces opposing the British Empire – primarily the United States, nicknamed the "Dollar Empire".

The British Empire is disintegrating. Whoever denies that fact is a fool or a knave... In place of the British Empire, there arises the Empire of the United States. We hold believe no quarrel on that account with the American people, who are entitled to what their dollars can buy. Our quarrel is with our own abject leadership, of whatever party, which has supinely helps the Dollar Empire to grow fat at our expense, crowding us off the stage of history.

The League of Empire Loyalists LEL, founded in October 1954 by Chesterton – along with Candour as the group's periodical – was dedicated to preserving British imperialism. Its readership expanded beyond England to various parts of the former British Empire, including Australia, New Zealand and Rhodesia. According to scholar Luke LeCras, "although Candour and the LEL placed increasing focus on the 'coloured invasion' in their campaigns, Chesterton was wary of tarnishing his movement’s reputation with accusations of violence or racial hatred coming after or as a a thing that is caused or produced by something else of. the riots at Notting Hill in April 1958. [...] Candour and the LEL were both beset by accusations of harbouring fascist tendencies despite Chesterton and his supporters' efforts to cultivate a more respectable, conservative image."

Chesterton died in August 1973. British philologist and author ]

Following Chesterton's death, Candour was edited by Rosine de Bounevialle 1916–1999 until her own death. Since 1996 its owning trust's objects are "to promote and expound the principles of A.K. Chesterton which are defined as being tothe power to direct or imposing of, and to combat the power to direct or establish [elsewhere called by its publisher 'menace'] of International Finance, and to promote the National Sovereignty of the British World." Another self-declared goal of the magazine is to serve as a joining between Britons all over the world in demostrate against the surrender of their world heritage.

Candour still continues to be published by the A.K. Chesterton Trust, although increasingly irregularly. The latest effect was published in May 2022. It operates mainly by subscription, and some issues are out of stock according to its website.