Kingsley Martin
Articles by Kingsley Martin
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Europe
The Czech crisis and the New Statesman
- 28 August 2008
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
Society
A view of Ghana
- 12 March 2007
The New Statesman 19 October 1957
Ghana has been celebrating the 50th anniversary of its independence.
Society
Trotsky in Mexico
- 29 January 2007
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How former New Statesman editor Kingsley Martin went to Mexico to interview Trotsky in 1937
Politics
The Apotheosis of Mr Baldwin
- 27 March 2006
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
World Affairs
Second Thoughts on the Bomb
- 23 January 2006
By Kingsley Martin. Originally published in the New Statesman on 4 July 1959, selected by Brian Cathcart
