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The Making Of A Communist Journalist: Rupert Lockwook, 1908-1940, Rowan Cahill
The Making Of A Communist Journalist: Rupert Lockwook, 1908-1940, Rowan Cahill
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
The journalist/publicist Rupert Lockwood (1908-1997) was one of Australia’s best known Cold War communists, his name synonymous with the Royal Commission into Espionage in Australia, 1954-1955, as author of the notorious Document J. However the communist journalist did not spring fully formed into history. He joined the Australian Communist Party in 1939. This article traces Lockwood’s development as a journalist and his evolution as a communist between the wars. It is a story that ranges from small-town Western Victoria, and the West Wimmera Mail, to Melbourne and Sir Keith Murdoch’s Herald. In between, much of the world is traversed--significantly, South …
Poetry Of The Resistance, Resistance Of The Poet, Yasmine Getz
Poetry Of The Resistance, Resistance Of The Poet, Yasmine Getz
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
The expression "French Resistance poetry" tends to immediately suggest a poetry written for an audience belonging to a specific historical period, namely that stretching from 1940, the time of the French defeat and collaboration, to 8 May 1945, the date of the Allied Victory over Nazism...