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...Massingham, recently retired editor of The Nation (London), who now conducts a weekly column in The Christian Science Monitor (Boston), made some pertinent comment upon the recent British newspaper amalgamation, whereby Lords Rothermere (brother of the late Northcliffe) and Beaverbrook (a Canadian Peer) bought from Sir Edward Hulton & Co. that group of papers known as the Hulton Press and comprising The Sunday Herald, The Sunday Chronicle, The Daily Despatch, The Empire News and The Evening Chronicle (all Manchester), The Daily Sketch, The Daily Despatch and The Evening Standard (London...
...Massingham made his journalistic debut on the Norfolk News, but it was not until he became editor of the Daily Chronicle that he made bis name in the newspaper world. Under him the Daily Chronicle was accounted the best journal in London from every point of view, and since those days Mr. Massingham has acquired a great deal of respect and even admiration in newspaper and literary circles. Nor was this popularity confined to Liberal thought, as was shown recently by the acceptance of articles from Mr. Massingham by J. St. Loe Straehey, editor of The Spectator, which used...
Henry William Massingham from 1907 until a few months ago was editor of The Nation (London). He had risen to that position through a long course in the hard school of practical journalism. He belongs to the radical (that is to say the Socialist) school of British politics - somewhat more radical even than the Laborites. Last winter the ownership of The Nation changed hands, and Massingham, on account of his opinions, found himself without a position...
...When Mr. Massingham was deposed from his liberal throne in The Nation, a cry of protest went up from the liberal press - not only in England but in this country. Mr. Strachey, a Conservative in politics but a liberal in journalism, then did an unusual and highly creditable thing - he engaged Mr. Massingham to write for The Spectator. There Mr. Massingham now conducts a column which is headed The Other Side. While Mr. Strachey says one thing in his editorial columns, Mr. Massingham upholds the opposite thesis, and all in the same paper...
...column The Spectator continues to print Strachey conservatism; in another Massingham Socialism; and in a third, the irate letters which exclaim typically : "Away with such stuff from the columns of The Spectator...