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词条 Douglas Ritchie
释义

  1. World War II

  2. Post war

  3. See also

  4. References

  5. External links

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Douglas Ritchie (1905-1967)[1][2] was a news editor at the BBC.

World War II

Ritchie, 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 war

After 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 also

References

1. ^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

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