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The Czech crisis and the New Statesman

Kingsley Martin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:22:49 GMT

Throughout the 1930s, the New Statesman upheld a principled resistance to Nazi Germany. It was therefore all the more dismaying to many readers when, in an August 1938 editorial, Kingsley Martin argued that Czechoslovakia's frontiers might have to be redrawn to enable a German minority to join the Third Reich. Martin admitted that the editorial "pursued" him for many years, even though, the following month, he denounced the betrayal of the Czechs to Hitler

The tragedy in Delhi

Kingsley Martin — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:00:00 GMT

Attending Mohandas K Gandhi's funeral

A view of Ghana

Kingsley Martin — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:00:00 GMT

The New Statesman 19 October 1957 Ghana has been celebrating the 50th anniversary of its independence.

Trotsky in Mexico

Kingsley Martin — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:00:00 GMT

How former New Statesman editor Kingsley Martin went to Mexico to interview Trotsky in 1937

The Apotheosis of Mr Baldwin

Kingsley Martin — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 12:00:00 GMT

Taken from the New Statesman archive, 29 March 1937. Within a few years the well-timed departure of Stanley Baldwin was forgotten by all but a few, and his name became shorthand for Tory complacency. This assessment by the magazine�s editor was unsigned when first published, but in our bound copies from those years the writers� names or initials have been added in ink - Brian Cathcart

Second Thoughts on the Bomb

Kingsley Martin — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 12:00:00 GMT

By Kingsley Martin. Originally published in the New Statesman on 4 July 1959, selected by Brian Cathcart