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Raymond Mortimer

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In the 1920s, he was in Paris, writing fiction. A Francophile, Mortimer broke down in tears when he heard on 21 June 1940 that France had signed an armistice with Germany, saying it was as if half of England had just fallen into the sea. He later became literary editor of the
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in World War II, and subsequently as a book reviewer for
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Edward Sackville-West
Garsington Manor
CBE
literary editor
Knightsbridge
Redhill, Surrey
Malvern College
Balliol College, Oxford
New Statesman
Free French
Order of the British Empire
1955 Birthday Honours
Vita Sackville-West
Harold Nicolson
Long Crichel House
Edward Sackville West
Desmond Shawe-Taylor
Eardley Knollys
salons
E.M. Forster
Nancy Mitford
Benjamin Britten
Laurie Lee
Ben Nicolson
Graham Greene
"Life and times of artist in public gaze"
Bio
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British journalist

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