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3 unusual facts about Douglas Darby


Douglas Darby

He trained at Portsmouth Teachers College before taking a job as steward and galley hand on a P&O liner bound for Australia.

Instead, having studied at the University of Sydney, he was seconded from primary teaching to the Youth Section of the Federal Department of Labour and Industry to work as a vocational officer.

By 1970, as the New South Wales President of the Captive Nations Council, Darby was authorised by the Polish-Hungarian World Federation (Australian Branch) to be their Honorary Representative at the World Anti-Communist League (WACL) Conference in Tokyo and by 1973 he helped found the Australia-Free China Society, subsidised by both the Taiwanese Travel Service and the Taiwanese government.



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