BRITISH NUDISTS

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 303, 7 December 1936, Page 7

BRITISH NUDISTS

DRIVE FOR FREEDOM. E DUCAT 10 N CAM PA I (IN. More than 25,000 British mid;si3 have launched an education campaign aimed at the “prudery” of Ihe English people. Mis s Maria Uli, spoKesnmn for the National Sun and Air Association who keeps her clothes on when she talks about nudism to newspaper reporters, admitted they faced a bitter light. For the average Englishman is mme at home in a hard-boiled shirt front than he is m his epidermis ‘‘But every month.” she adde 1, “the prejudice against nudism is growing more feeble and someday we will break down the wail of narrowmindedness and have the same pu e attitude toward i.udism that they have for instance in France and Germany.” Miss Uli, an attractive young woman, with auburn hair, has her offices almost in the shadow of the venerable St. Paul’s Cathedral, seat of Britain’s deep-rooted propriety. Only -» few weeks ago the congregation >i’ 1000 persons at St. Paul’s was scandalized when a young woman—la!er found to be a fanatic pacifist—walked silently down the nave, slipped oil’ her cloak and stood naked before the altar

“REFINED ’ ’ PROGRAMME PLANNED. The educational campaign with thousands of pamphlets and a corns of speech-makers, will be conducted on a “refined” basis —no posters uf naked girls basking in the sun. Instead, the National Sun and Air Association will broadcast the invigorating, healthy life in the open air without any of man’s impedimenta. The greatest supporter of nudism in Great Britain—although he stout ly denies practicing it himself —is George Bernard Shaw. But he’s pessimistic about the possibilities of turning out British nu 1ists in mass quantities. “Real nudism as practiced in tiermany and France is unpopular lice and will be for a long time to come because we British people still cling to the desire for sex appeal,” he said. By innuendo, he inferred that an unclothed woman is about as alluring as a raw potato and that modern clothes are designed to accentuate sex appeal. /