The son of Eastern European emigrants who came to Britain to escape the pogroms, Maurice Edelman was educated at Cardiff High School and Trinity College, Cambridge. After a career in the plywood industry and time as a journalist during the Second World War, Edelman won election to Parliament in 1945 as a Labour candidate for Coventry West. During his time in Parliament he was a vice-chairman of the British Council and chairman of the Franco-British Parliamentary Relations Committee.
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