Some PPU supporters were so sympathetic to German grievances that PPU supporter Rose Macaulay claimed she found it difficult to distinguish between the PPU newspaper '' Peace News '' and that of the British Union of Fascists ( BUF ) , saying , " occasionally when reading '' Peace News '' , I ( and others ) half think we have got hold of the '' Blackshirt '' BUF journal by mistake " . There was Fascist infiltration of the PPU and MI5 kept an eye on the PPU 's " small Fascist connections " . After Dick Sheppard 's death in October 1937 , George Orwell , always hostile to pacifism , accused the PPU of " moral collapse " on the grounds that some members even joined the BUF . However , several historians note that the situation may have been the other way around ; that is , BUF members attempted to infiltrate the PPU . On 11 August 1939 , the Deputy Editor of Peace News , Andrew Stewart , criticised those " who think that membership of British Union , Sir Oswald Moseley 's Fascist organization , is compatible with membership of the PPU " . In November 1939 , an MI5 officer reported that members of the far-right Nordic League were attempting " to join the PPU en masse " . Historians have differed in their interpretation of the PPU 's attitude to Nazi Germany . The historian Mark Gilbert said , " it is hard to think of a British newspaper that was so consistent an apologist for Nazi Germany as '' Peace News '' , " which " assiduously echoed the Nazi press 's claims that far worse offences than the Kristallnacht events were a regular feature of British colonial rule " . But David C. Lukowitz argues that , " it is nonsense to charge the PPU with pro-Nazi sentiments . From the outset it emphasised that its primary dedication was to world peace , to economic justice and racial equality , " but it had " too much sympathy for the German position , often the product of ignorance and superficial thinking " . Research by the historian Richard Griffiths , published in 2017 , suggests considerable division and controversy at the top of the PPU , with the editors of '' Peace News '' being generally more willing to play down the dangers of Nazi Germany than were many members of the PPU Executive
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