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]
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
↑ Butts, Mary (2002). The Journals of Mary Butts. New Haven: Yale University Press. p.280. ISBN9780300132892.
↑ Madeira, Victor (2014). Britannia and the Bear: The Anglo-Russian Intelligence Wars, 1917-1929. Boydell Press. p.41. ISBN9781843838951.
↑ Richards, Huw (1997). The bloody circus: The Daily Herald and the left. London: Pluto Press. p.17. ISBN0745311172.
↑ 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. ISBN9780807854167.
↑ West, Nigel (2014). Historical Dictionary of British Intelligence. Scarecrow Press. p.203. ISBN9780810878976.
↑ Curry, John Court (1999). The Security Service 1908-1945: The Official History. Public Record Office. p.97. ISBN9781873162798.
↑ Bennett, Gill (2006). Churchill's Man of Mystery: Desmond Morton and the World of Intelligence. Taylor & Francis. p.123. ISBN9781134160341.
↑ 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. ISBN9780805071818.
↑ Ellis, David A. (2012). Conversations with Cinematographers. Bloomsbury Academic. p.13. ISBN9780810881266.
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