George Slocombe

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George Edward Slocombe (March 8, 1894-December 19, 1963) was a British journalist and novelist.

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Biography

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

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]

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References

  1. ↑ Butts, Mary (2002). The Journals of Mary Butts. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 280. ISBN   9780300132892.
  2. ↑ Madeira, Victor (2014). Britannia and the Bear: The Anglo-Russian Intelligence Wars, 1917-1929. Boydell Press. p. 41. ISBN   9781843838951.
  3. ↑ Richards, Huw (1997). The bloody circus : The Daily Herald and the left. London: Pluto Press. p. 17. ISBN   0745311172.
  4. ↑ Kirkpatrick, Ivone (1964). Mussolini: Study of a Demagogue. London: Odhams. p. 119.
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ West, Nigel (2014). Historical Dictionary of British Intelligence. Scarecrow Press. p. 203. ISBN   9780810878976.
  7. ↑ Curry, John Court (1999). The Security Service 1908-1945: The Official History. Public Record Office. p. 97. ISBN   9781873162798.
  8. ↑ Bennett, Gill (2006). Churchill's Man of Mystery: Desmond Morton and the World of Intelligence. Taylor & Francis. p. 123. ISBN   9781134160341.
  9. ↑ Madeira, Victor (December 2003). "Moscow's Interwar Infiltration of British Intelligence, 1919–1929". The Historical Journal. 46 (4): 930.
  10. ↑ 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.
  11. ↑ Ellis, David A. (2012). Conversations with Cinematographers. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 13. ISBN   9780810881266.
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