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Colin Welch
James Colin Ross Welch (23 April 1924 – 28 January 1997) was an English political journalist. According to Richard West in his obituary of Welch, he was a "strong and eloquent advocate of individual liberty against the power of government". Welch, son of James William Welch and Irene Margherita (née Paton), was born at Ickleton Abbey in Cambridgeshire, which his grandfather, also James Welch, had owned since 1900 and which estate the family farmed until 1933; they were also Shire horse breeders. James William Welch was amongst the principal landowners at Ickleton in 1929. Welch was educated at Stowe and Peterhouse, Cambridge, and joined the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in 1944, taking part in the Normandy landings in June and fighting until injured in March 1945. He joined the ''Glasgow Herald'' in 1948, and then ''The Daily Telegraph'' in 1950, when he became a parliamentary correspondent for the newspaper, advocating his economic liberal views for three decades. He was ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard West (journalist)
Richard West (18 July 1930 – 25 April 2015) was a British journalist and author best known for his reporting of the Vietnam War and Yugoslavia. He is described by Damian Thompson as "one of the finest foreign correspondents of the 20th century", with a career that covered the span of the Cold War in most of its theatres. Life and career Born in London, West attended Marlborough College before his national service spell in Trieste awakened a lifelong interest in Yugoslavia. Starting off his journalistic career at the ''Manchester Guardian'', West became a foreign correspondent in Yugoslavia, Africa, Central America and Indochina. Described by Neal Ascherson as the "paragon of the independent journalist for his generation", he would spend much of the next two decades in Vietnam, Africa and eastern Europe, where he was codenamned Agent Friday by Communist Poland's secret police. Among his books are ''The Making of the Prime Minister'' (with Anthony Howard (journalist), Anthony Howa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |