The ''National Review'' was founded in 1883 by the English writers

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and William Courthope. It was launched as a platform for the views of the British Conservative Party. Its masthead incorporating a quotation of the former Conservative Prime Minister,

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, referring to him as Lord Beaconsfield: "What is the Tory Party, unless it represents National feeling?""Cover." ''The National Review'' 1, no. 1 (Mar, 1883). ProQuest. Under editor Leopold Maxse, the ''National Review'' took an unfriendly attitude towards

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in the years leading up to World War I. The magazine was published by the Cecil Club, which became the

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in 1949. The magazine was renamed the ''National and English Review'' in 1950. It closed in 1960.

Editors

* (1883–1887)

with William Courthope * (1887–1893)

* (1893–1932) Leopold Maxse * (1932–1948) Violet Milner * (1948–1954) Edward Grigg * (1954–1960) John Grigg

References

*Hutcheson, John A. (1989). ''Leopold Maxse and the National Review, 1893–1914: right-wing politics and journalism in the Edwardian era''. New York: Garland Publishing Inc. .

External links

The Genesis of the "A.B.C." Memorandum of 1901
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