When it was over, Lord Kemsley offered him the foreign manager- ship of Kemsley (now Thomson) news- papers. He decided instead to seek his fortune in the City, an attempt which he continued, without much success, first as a banker, then as a stockbroker, until he joined the Navy in 1939.Īs personal assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence. He covered the trial of the Vickers-Armstrong engineers in Moscow in 1933, and was offered the job of Reuter’s assistant general manager in the Far East. “a very good milL The training there gives you a good straightforward style. Above all, I have to thank Reuter’s for getting my facts right. In 1929, having failed to secure a place in the Diplomatic Service, he joined Reuter’s at a time when the inter- national wire ser- vices were struggling for supremacy. and then at Munich and Geneva universities. Ian Lancaster Fleming was born in 1903, son of Major Valentine Fleming, M.P., D.S.O. Ian Fleming, whose death at the age of 56 is announced on another page was one of the most successful and controversial thriller writers in recent years.
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