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Career: Not rich, left with an income of about ?200 ($560) a year, Clarissa worked in the wartime Ministry of Information on Britansky Soyuznik, an English-language propaganda newspaper edited in London and published in Russia. Later switched to the Foreign Office. Postwar jobs: feature editor (books, art, travel) of the London edition of Vogue; publicity woman at ?1,000 a year (a good salary for a woman in Britain) for Moviemaker Sir Alexander Korda...
Early in 1942, during the heyday of Anglo-Soviet friendship, the British anc Russian governments made a newspaper deal: the Russians would publish 50,000 copies of a weekly Soviet newspaper in Britain, and the British would do th same in Russia. In August, the first copies of Britansky Soyuznik (British Ally) were being distributed in Russia...
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