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John Eric Langdon-Davies MBE (18 March 1897 – 5 December 1971) was a British author and journalist. He was a war correspondent during the Spanish Civil War and the Soviet-Finnish War. As a result of his experiences in Spain, he founded the Foster Parents' Scheme for refugee children in Spain, which is now the aid organisation Plan International.
British author and journalist John Langdon-Davies. The organisation was set up by British journalist John Langdon-Davies and refugee worker Eric Muggeridge in 1937, with the original aim to provide food, accommodation and education to children whose lives had been disrupted by the Spanish Civil War.
(1897-1971) South African-born poet and author, mostly in the UK from the age of six, a pacifist in World War One, and much involved in Spain and its conflicts during the interWar years; he is of some sf interest for A Short History of the Future (1936), which – like J D Bernal's The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1929 chap) – is ...
It all began with John Langdon-Davies, a British war journalist, and Eric Muggeridge, a refugee worker. John and Eric couldn’t bear to see any more children suffer, so they decided to do what they could to save as many as possible.
A Short History Of Women by John Langdon Davies. Publication date 1936 Topics Salar Collection ... John Langdon Davies dc.date.accessioned: 2015-07-09T12:01:58Z
Newspaperman and novelist John Langdon-Davies brings a facile pen to bis examination of Spanish history during Charles II’s reign, although the result is more like a good mystery story than serious history. The leading characters are reproduced in bold bigger-than-life strokes of the brush.
Aug 8, 2022 · In January 1940, the British writer John Langdon-Davies travelled to Finland to report on the Winter War with the Soviet Union (November 1939–March 1940).
