Hubert Hessell Tiltman

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Hubert Hessell Tiltman (born February 2, 1897 in Birmingham , † August 10, 1976 in Port Said , Egypt ) was a British journalist and writer.

Life and activity

In the 1930s, Tiltman began working as a journalist for the Daily Herald . In 1935 he was the first foreign correspondent in Japan , where he - with interruptions - was to live until his death. The trade journal The East described him in 1965 as the "doyen" of the foreign press in Japan and noted that since 1935 he had spent more than 9,000 days in Japan and the (former) empire states of the Far East. In addition to the Herald, he wrote for the Manchester Guardian and the Daily News.

While he was reporting on the violent Japanese expansion on the East Asian continent, Tiltman was temporarily detained by the Japanese secret police Kempeitai around 1937 on suspicion of espionage. He was officially charged with the unusual accusation of having taken "a photograph without a camera". Despite the bizarre nature of the indictment, the author Paul French, with reference to Tiltmnn's close relationship with Percy Thomas Etherton (a well-known news agent), assumes that the allegation of espionage made against him may have been true and that he at least provided information for the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS). collected.

Tiltman reported in the 1930s as a foreign correspondent on the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1938), the invasion of the Polish army in the Czechoslovakian city of Teschen (October 1938), the General Franco offensive against Barcelona (1938-1939) , which ended the Spanish Civil War . In the last few weeks before the start of the Second World War, he traveled to ten countries or territories and reported on the situation there in view of the emerging escalation (including Italy, Poland, Gdansk, Germany, Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey).

Tilman was classified as an important target by the National Socialist police forces : In the spring of 1940 the Reich Main Security Office in Berlin placed him on the special wanted list GB , a directory of people who, in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British Isles by the Wehrmacht, would be followed by the special commandos of the occupying forces SS should be located and arrested with special priority.

From 1940 to 1945 Tiltman reported from Washington, DC After 1945 he returned to East Asia: from 1951 to 1963 he was Japan correspondent for the Manchester Guardian and from 1948 to 1962 special rapporteur on Japanese affairs for the Washington Post . He also contributed to the British weekly The Economist .

In the 1960s, Tiltman et al. a. about the Vietnam War . In the last years of his life he published two books. He was also an advisor to the Encyclopedia Britannica on Japan-related issues.

He died of a heart attack in 1976 while on a voyage from Antwerp to Tokyo on the Polish liner Jurata. He was buried in the Yokohama Aliens Cemetery.

family

Tiltman was married to the writer Marjorie Tiltman.

Honors

Tiltman received the Order of the British Empire and the Japanese Order of the Sacred Treasure 4th grade in 1959 .

Fonts

  • Poverty Lane. A Novel , 1926.
  • Kings of Commerce , 1928 (with Thomas Charles Bridges)
  • More Heroes of Modern Adventues , 1930. (with Thomas Charles Bridges)
  • J. Ramsay MacDonald: Labor's Man of Destiny , 1929. (again as James Ramsay MacDonaly in 1931. Labor's Man of Destiny )
  • The Terror in Europe , 1931.
  • Slump! A Study of Stricken Europe To-Day , 1932.
  • Recent Heroes of Modern Adventures , 1932. (with Thomas Charles Bridges)
  • Japan. Mistress of the Pacific? , 1933. (with Percy Thomas Ehterton)
  • Paesant Europe , 1934.
  • Manchuria. A Cockpit of Asia , 1934. (with Percy Thomas Etherton)
  • Heroes of Everyday Adventure , 1934. (with Thomas Charles Bridges)
  • Further Heroes of Modern Adventures , 1936. (together Thomas Charles Bridges)
  • European Excursions , 1936.
  • The Far East Comes Nearer , 1937.
  • The Uncensored Far East , 1937.
  • The Far East Comes Nearer , 1937.
  • Master Minds of Modern Science , 1939. (with Thomas Charles Bridges)
  • The Pacific. A Forecast , 1970 (with Percy Thomas Ehterton)

literature

  • Hessell Tiltman. A Newsman in Asia , item in the New York Times , Aug. 11, 1976. (Reprinted in The New York Times Biographical Service , Vol. 7, 1976, p. 1206)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul French: Through the Looking Glass: China's Foreign Journalists from Opium Wars to Mao , 173.
  2. ^ Entry on Tilman on the special wanted list GB (reproduced on the website of the Imperial War Museum in London) .
personal data
SURNAME Tiltman, Hubert Hessell
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Birmingham
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 1976
Place of death Port Said , Egypt