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A mysterious, influential and often extremely dubious man of affairs, Tom Driberg embodied many of the contradictions and ambiguities of his time. At Oxford, he was the friend of Auden, Betjeman, Hugh Gaitskell and his old school-chum, Evelyn Waugh; working on Beaverbrook's Express in the Thirties, he invented the modern gossip column; a close friend of Burgess and Maclean, he was widely ...
Tom Driberg was a Labour MP whose association with Burgess dated back to the latter's days as a BBC producer on parliamentary programme The Week in Westminster. Driberg had also written a ...
20. Feb. 2018 · Among the unique sources for Korean War history available in the United Kingdom, those associated with Labour MP Tom Driberg are particularly intriguing. I first became aware of Driberg as part of an article project entitled 'British Responses to Korean War Crimes' (co-authored with Hannah Dawson, forthcoming in English Historical Review, 2019).
Tom Driberg was clearly no saint. This upper-middle-class man of the people could be appallingly rude to ordinary people and woe betide any waiter who had the vulgarity to put a sauce bottle on his table. He was also a less than ideal husband. Driberg married in 1951 and, predictably, it was not a happy liaison. Wheen dismisses the suggestion ...
3. Dez. 2015 · Mr Driberg started out as a journalist, founding the William Hickey gossip column in the Daily Express, before becoming the MP for Maldon in 1942. By 1957 he was chairman of the Labour Party, a ...
20. Dez. 2018 · Tom Driberg emerged from one of the vehicles along with nine other members of the British Parliament – an official delegation, sent by Prime Minister Winston Churchill to examine the worst of the newly liberated concentration camps which had been captured by Western forces. Driberg was many things, but he was hardly a senior member of this ...
10. Nov. 2021 · Tom Driberg : His Life and Indiscretions by Wheen, Francis. Publication date 1992 Topics Driberg, Tom, 1905-1976, Labour Party (Great Britain), Biographies Biography) Publisher Pan Bks. Collection internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdis ...
