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George Edward Slocombe (March 8, 1894-December 19, 1963) was a British journalist and novelist.
Biography
[edit]Slocombe was born in Bristol.[1] He started work as a journalist for the Daily Herald in 1912 and became the paper's Chief Foreign Correspondent in 1919.[2] He was recruited to work at the paper by Rowland Kenney, starting his career as Kenney's secretary.[3] Slocombe interviewed Benito Mussolini at the Cannes Conference in 1922.[4] Slocombe later wrote a fictionalized depiction of Mussolini in his novel, Romance of a Dictator.[5]
In Paris, Slocombe worked for William Ewer at the Federated Press of America.[6] In this position, Slocombe sent Ewer confidential copies of French reports sent to the French Foreign Office.[7] Ewer paid him $1000 a month for supplying the documents.[8] Slocombe was never prosecuted by the British government for these activities and he returned to England in 1940.[9]
Personal life
[edit]In 1921, while living in Paris, he had an affair with Edna St. Vincent Millay.[10] Slocombe was the father of cinematographer Douglas Slocombe.[11]
Bibliography
[edit]- Romance of a Dictator (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1932)
- Don John of Austria, the Victor of Lepanto (1547-1578) (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1936)
- William the Conqueror (London: Hutchinson, 1959)
- The Dangerous Sea: The Mediterranean and Its Future (New York : Macmillan, 1937)
- Escape Into the Past: A Novel (London : George G. Harrap, 1943)
- Sons of the Conqueror (London : Hutchinson, 1960)
References
[edit]- ↑ Butts, Mary (2002). The Journals of Mary Butts. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 280. ISBN 9780300132892.
- ↑ Madeira, Victor (2014). Britannia and the Bear: The Anglo-Russian Intelligence Wars, 1917-1929. Boydell Press. p. 41. ISBN 9781843838951.
- ↑ Richards, Huw (1997). The bloody circus : The Daily Herald and the left. London: Pluto Press. p. 17. ISBN 0745311172.
- ↑ Kirkpatrick, Ivone (1964). Mussolini: Study of a Demagogue. London: Odhams. p. 119.
- ↑ Alpers, Benjamin L. (2003). Dictators, Democracy, and American Public Culture: Envisioning the Totalitarian Enemy, 1920s-1950s. University of North Carolina Press. p. 24. ISBN 9780807854167.
- ↑ West, Nigel (2014). Historical Dictionary of British Intelligence. Scarecrow Press. p. 203. ISBN 9780810878976.
- ↑ Curry, John Court (1999). The Security Service 1908-1945: The Official History. Public Record Office. p. 97. ISBN 9781873162798.
- ↑ Bennett, Gill (2006). Churchill's Man of Mystery: Desmond Morton and the World of Intelligence. Taylor & Francis. p. 123. ISBN 9781134160341.
- ↑ Madeira, Victor (December 2003). "Moscow's Interwar Infiltration of British Intelligence, 1919–1929". The Historical Journal. 46 (4): 930.
- ↑ Epstein, Daniel Mark (2002). What My Lips Have Kissed: The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Henry Holt and Company. p. 159. ISBN 9780805071818.
- ↑ Ellis, David A. (2012). Conversations with Cinematographers. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 13. ISBN 9780810881266.
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