in 1934, angered by police responses to hunger marchers, he founded the council for civil liberties (later the national council for civil liberties (nccl) and now known as liberty), which included such figures as e. m. forster as its president, and clement attlee, aneurin bevan, havelock ellis, aldous huxley, j. b. priestley, bertrand russell, and h. g. wells among its vice-presidents.