Posted by Jock on July 31, 2005 at 17:24:38 from 217.172.246.144 user Jock.
In Reply to: Re: Childers and Ransome posted by Jock on July 31, 2005 at 16:31:22:
An informative article in the Guardian about AR's 'spying activities'. It previews a forthcoming book about AR by Roland Chambers and portrays Ransome as a man whose life defied all such cliches, whether he was prepared to admit it to himself or not.
A second Guardian article reporting that Lord Curzon, the Foreign Secretary insisted that CP Scott (the paper's editor at the time Ransome was seeking to return to Russia) was given a warning about what would be and what would not be acceptable. It is dificult to conceive that the warning in some form or other was not passed on to Ransome.