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Stephen G. Watts

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Representative on the Inter-Services Security Board, United Kingdom (1943–44), in particular because, "Through his cooperation and unstinted advice, Major Watt (sic) rendered invaluable assistance and aided materially in the performance of the American military mission".
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in 1910 and attended North Kelvinside Higher Grade School and was initially apprenticed to an accountant before turning to journalism first as film critic of The Bulletin (1928–32) and then editor of the Scottish Stage magazine (1931–1934).
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Although he lived in London for the rest of his life after moving there in 1932, he remained attached to his home city of
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when it was bombed in March 1941, and was involved in a deception involving a double for General (later Field Marshal)
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In addition, he wrote several books (see "Books") and edited over 200 booklets in the Background Books series for
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Citation for award of Bronze Star Medal to "Major Stephen G. Watts, (then Captain), British Army" (1946).
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Stephen Watts moved to London at the age of 21 and worked firstly as a critic and feature writer for
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and, in particular, maintained a lifelong friendship with the Scottish writer and broadcaster
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by the United States of America for his work as the
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Glasgow
Guilford
Margaret Furse

Margaret Furse
Anne of the Thousand Days
Academy Award for Best Costume Design
Glasgow
Film Weekly
Sunday Express
King's Royal Rifle Corps
Café de Paris
Bernard Montgomery
D-Day
Bronze Star Medal
MI5
Sunday Express
New York Times
Sunday Times
The New Yorker
The Sketch
Daily Express
Sunday Graphic
Picturegoer
Leader Magazine
Lilliput
The Critics' Circle
The Critics' Circle
National Union of Journalists

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