biography
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Martin, (Basil) Kingsley
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| (1897–1969)
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| biography:
| Journalist, born in London, UK. He studied at Cambridge and Princeton, and taught at the London School of Economics (1923–7), after which he entered journalism, working on the Manchester Guardian (1927–31). As editor of the New Statesman and Nation (1932–62), he transformed it into a strongly self-assured weekly journal of Socialist opinion. Khrushchev and John Foster Dulles replied in its columns to an open letter it published from Bertrand Russell on the Cold War. |
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