It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided ‘no’.
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| Birth: | 9th April, 1893 |
| Death: | 11th August, 1975 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Journalist, Lecturer, Politician |
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Charles James "Jim" Simmons was born in Moseley, Birmingham. He was a British lecturer, journalist and politician. In World War I he served in the Worcestershire Regiment, seeing action in France, Egypt and Gallipoli. Simmons found work as a political journalist, editing the Town Crier, the journal of the Birmingham Trades Council from 1940–1945. He wrote his autobiography Soapbox Evangelist in 1971.
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