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Aylmer Vallance

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In 1928 he married Phyllis Taylor Birnstingl, née Reid. They were divorced in 1940. He subsequently married Helen Chisholm, née Gosse the same year. They had two children, a son, Tito, and a daughter, Margaret. Again the marriage ended in divorce. Finally in 1950, he married Ute Christina
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Fischinger, daughter of a German Army officer and a German resistance fighter, who after his death, married photographer and physician
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as assistant editor. He also wrote several books, on the press and on economic affairs.
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The New statesman: the history of the first fifty years, 1913–1963
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over his persistent drunkenness and lukewarm support for the
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Geoffrey Cox, "The editor who made love - and great news",
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direction, investigating and critically reporting on the
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From 1930 to 1933, Vallance was assistant editor of
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Scottish
newspaper editor
Partick
Fettes College
Edinburgh
Balliol College, Oxford
Somerset Light Infantry
2nd Indian Division
World War I
National Maritime Board
Political Research Bureau
The Economist
News Chronicle
radical
British Union of Fascists
Vernon Bartlett
Tangye Lean
Ian Mackay
Gerald Barry
newsprint
subeditors
Liberal Party
Evening Standard
New Statesman
World War II
War Office
Political Warfare Executive
Josip Broz Tito
Nico Jesse

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