William Horsfall Carter, most commonly known in print as W. Horsfall Carter (25 March 1900 – 9 June 1976) was a British journalist and European civil servant. He wrote and lectured on international affairs, and translated into English from

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Life

W. Horsfall Carter was educated at

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, where he gained a first in modern languages in 1922. After a while as Laming Travelling Fellow at

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, Carter entered journalism. He was editorial assistant and assistant leader-writer at ''

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'' from 1928 to 1930, and on the editorial staff of the ''

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'' in 1931. From 1932 to 1933 he was Secretary of the

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and was also editor of ''The New Commonwealth'' from 1932 to 1936. From 1937 to 1939 he edited ''

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''. He wrote leaders for the ''

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'' in 1940–42, and was European Publicity Officer for the BBC in 1942–43. Becoming a civil servant, Carter worked for the Research Department of the

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from 1943 to 1951, rising to be Head of the Western Europe Section from 1947 to 1951. From 1951 until 1961 he was Head of the Publications Division of the Secretariat of the

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Works

* (tr. with Mrs Krassin) ''The Life of Leonid Krassin'', 1928 * (tr.) ''War again to-morrow'', London: Faber & Faber, Ltd, 1932 * he assisted R. Ashley Audra and Cloudesley Brereton) with the translation of ''The two sources of morality and religion'' by

Henri Bergson Henri-Louis Bergson (; ; 18 October 1859 – 4 January 1941) was a French philosopher who was influential in the traditions of analytic philosophy and continental philosophy, especially during the first half of the 20th century until the S ...

. New York: H. Holt and Co., 1935. * (tr.) ''The Law of Peace'' by

Cornelis van Vollenhoven Cornelis van Vollenhoven (8 May 1874, Dordrecht – 29 April 1933, Leiden) was a Dutch law professor and legal scholar, best known for his work on the legal systems of the East Indies. Cornelis van Vollenhoven began his university studies at ...

. London: Macmillan and Co., 1936. * (tr.) ''Modern language teaching by television : A survey based on the principal experiments carried out in Western Europe'' by Raymond Hickel. Strasbourg., 1965. * ''Speaking European: the Anglo-Continental cleavage'', London: Allen & Unwin, 1966

References

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