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374:(for the Conservative Party). The British Government at this time was a coalition government. Although George is referred to as Edward in the article that was published on 22 January 1921, the editor printed a formal correction in an issue published the following month. A letter published in the journal on 5 February 1921 also revealed that George’s mother’s name was Schilling.
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article includes several personal details that would be verified by letters unearthed several decades later by historian, Gisela C, Lebzelter, lends additional weight to the claims. A letter written in response to the article by
Patrick Hamilton in Tring in February 1921 suggests that it was unlikely
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confirms that Shanks was indeed assisted by
Temporary Major Edward Griffiths George Burdon, who was awarded an O.B.E in the Queens Birthday Honours List in 1919. A supplement to the London Gazette of 21 August 1919 places him in the category of Special List officers of the
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is a reference to officers who may have had ordnance, linguistic or intelligence skills. Upon his death in March 1937, Burdon left Shanks a sum ÂŁ5,000 from his estate and a box of letters. According to a report printed in the
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newspaper in August 1913, Burdon had expressed a wish that the letters should be sent to George Shanks “unopened so that he might deal with the contents according to instructions communicated to him”.
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January 1921 it is claimed that Shanks had been employed as a clerk at the Chief Whips Office at No. 12 Downing Street and then as Personal Assistant to Sir
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questioning its authenticity. At no point in his letter does Maude acknowledge the part played by his nephew George Shanks in the book’s translation and publication.
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that Shanks would have been able to complete the translation “unassisted”. The discovery of letters between Shanks’ friend, Robert Hobart Cust and
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