Vernon Bartlett

Charles Vernon Oldfield Bartlett (born April 30, 1894 in Westbury , Wiltshire , † January 18, 1983 ) (shared pseudonym Peter Oldfeld) was a British journalist, writer and politician.

Life and activity

Bartlett was a son of Thomas Oldfeld Bartlett and his wife Beatrice, geb. Jecks.

After attending Blundell's School and participating in World War I, Bartlett embarked on a career in journalism. From 1916 he worked as an editor for the Daily Mail . From 1917 he also worked for the Reuters news agency. From 1919 to 1920 he reported for the London Times as a special correspondent from Switzerland, Germany and Poland, then from 1921 to 1922 from Rome.

In 1922 Bartlett took over the post of director of the London office of the League of Nations , which he held until 1932.

From 1928 to 1934 he served as a radio reporter for foreign affairs for the BBC.

In 1933 Bartlett joined the editorial team of the News Chronicle , serving as its "diplomatic correspondent" for twenty years until 1954. In this position he reported

On November 18, 1938 Bartlett was in a by-election as a candidate for the Popular Front in the constituency of Bridgwater in the House of Commons, the British Parliament. He was then - re-elected in the general election of 1945, in which he ran as a non-party candidate - for twelve years, until 1950, as a member of parliament. After leaving parliament, he joined the Labor Party in 1950.

In 1942 Bartlett took part in the founding of the socialist Commonwealth Party, from which he eventually withdrew.

In 1954 Bartlett moved to Singapore , where he worked as a commentator for the Straits Times (1954–1961) and as a Southeast Asia correspondent for the Manchester Guardian .

family

Barlett's first marriage was on September 25, 1917, Marguerite van den Bemden († 1966). In 1969 he married Eleanor Needham Ritchie in his second marriage. The marriages resulted in two children, Dennis Oldfeld and Maurice Oldfeld.

Fonts

• Calf Love , 1929. (1985: TV movie Backfischliebe , director: Rolf Hädrich )
• The Unknow Soldier , Stokes, 1930.
• Journey's End: A Novel , Gollancz, 1930. (Reprinted 1968)
• No Man's Land , Allen & Unwin, 1930.
• Nazi Germany Explained , Gollancz, 1933.
• If I Were Dictator , Methuen, 1935.
• This is My Life , Chatto & Winchrs, 1937.
• Intermission in Europe: The Life of a Journalist and Broadcaster , Oxford University Press, 1938.
• Tomorrow Always Comes , Chatto & Windus, 1943.
• Go East, Old Man , Latimer House, 1948.
• East of the Iron Curtain , Latimer House, 1949. (McBride, 1950)
• Struggle for Africa , Praeger, 1953.
• Report from Malaya , Verschoyle, 1954.
• And Now, Tomorrow , Chatto & Windus, 1960.
• Tuscan Retreat , Chatto & Windus, 1964.
• A Book about Elba , Chatto & Windus, 1965.
• Introduction to Italy , 1967.
• The Past of Pastimes , 1969.
• The Color of their Skin , 1969.
• Tuscan Harvest , 1971.
• Central Italy , 1972.
• Northern Italy , 1973.
• I Know What I Liked , 1974.

literature

• Cynthia R Fadool: Contemporary Authors: A Bio-bibliographical Guide to Current Authors and Their Works , 1976, p. 51.

Web links

• Newspaper article about Vernon Bartlett in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .