Frederick Veale who died in 1976, was a well known member of the Brighton Branch of British Union before the war. By profession he was a soldier. He was also a prolific writer and a regular contributor to the "Nineteenth Century and After", the famous monthly review whose policy was present objective and unbiased articles on home and foreign affairs. It was the type of serious publication we could do with today.

In addition to articles on economic and historical subjects, Frederick Veale wrote "Lives of Lenin" (1932) and "Frederick the Great" (1935). However, it was after the second World War that he really showed what he was made of. At a time when the victorious allies were baying for blood (at Tehran, when Churchill handed Stalin a "Sword of Honour" and Stalin demanded that Churchill and Roosevelt agree that 50,000 German officers should be shot after the war was over),

Frederick Veale wrote a book entitled "Advance to Barbarism" which was published in the United States as well as in Britain. It was updated in 1963 and is still available. In the book he pointed out that an appalling precedent had been set by the verdicts of the International Military Tribunal in 1945. For their judgements meant that in any future war the Admirals, Generals and Air Marshals of the defeated side could expect to be condemned to death for obeying the orders of their government. This was also the view of Field Marshal Montgomery. This also meant that the prosecutors were judge and jury in their own cases.