Wickham Steed - Greatest Journalist of his Times Liebich AndrePaperback
Wickham Steed - Greatest Journalist of his Times Liebich AndrePaperback Hailed as the greatest journalist of his time Henry Wickham Steed (1871-1956) was editor-in-chief of The Times after World War…
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Wickham Steed - Greatest Journalist of his Times Liebich AndrePaperback
Hailed as the greatest journalist of his time Henry Wickham Steed (1871-1956) was editor-in-chief of The Times after World War I, having been its foreign editor since 1914, and, previously, its correspondent in Berlin, Vienna and Rome. In the 1930s, he stood at the forefront of the anti-appeasement camp and, in World War II, was the BBC's Overseas Services chief broadcaster. Spiritual godfather of the post-Habsburg new states he was long acknowledged as the world's greatest authority on Central Europe.
He was also a paradoxical personality of a liberal outlook and conservative disposition, torn too by complex personal relationships. Contemporaries remarked upon Steed's impressive appearance, prodigious command of foreign languages, and extraordinary network of connections in high places. Lionized abroad but denounced at home, Steed remained an outsider even as he reached
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