词条 | Douglas Ritchie |
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Douglas Ritchie (1905-1967)[1][2] was a news editor at the BBC. World War IIRitchie, at the time an assistant news editor, broadcast to German-occupied countries during the war. He adopted the moniker "Colonel Britton",[3] and his identity was a closely guarded secret until after the war.[4] He was in charge of the BBC's wartime "V for Victory" campaign. He created the "Continental V Army".[5] By the time of the disclosure of his identity in 1945 he was director of the European news department of the BBC.[6] Post warAfter the end of the war Ritchie rose to the position of head of publicity at the BBC. At the age of 50 he suffered a stroke.[7] His book Stroke (Faber & Faber, 1960) was hailed by John O'Londons as "A triumph of the highest order".[8] See alsoReferences1. ^http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0014%2FNERI Papers of Douglas E Ritchie and Noel Newsome 2. ^http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp76000/douglas-ernest-ritchie National Portrait Gallery listing 3. ^{{Cite book|page=129|title=The truth-benders: psychological warfare in the Second World War|author=Ronald Seth|publisher=Frewin|date=1969}} 4. ^{{Cite book|title=Pseudonyms|author=Joseph F. Clarke|publisher=BCA|date=1977|page=27}} 5. ^{{Cite book|page=266|title=A Woman in the Shadow of the Second World War: Helena Hall's Journal from the Home Front|author=Helena Hall|publisher=Pen and Sword|date=2014|isbn=9781473823259}} 6. ^{{Cite news|journal=Illustrated London News|volume=206|page=619|date=1945|title=The Illustrated London News}} 7. ^{{Cite book|page=19|title=My brother's keeper?|author=Monnica Charlotte Stewart|publisher=Health Horizon|date=1968}} 8. ^{{Cite journal|page=132|work=John o'London's|volume=3|date=1960|title=Out of the Pit}} External links{{Use DMY dates|date=September 2015}}{{Use British English|date=September 2015}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Ritchie, Douglas}}{{UK-journalist-stub}} 3 : 1905 births|British broadcasters|Year of death missing |
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