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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.
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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 .
Aug 22, 2020 · Yet two years earlier, Secker and Warburg, the publishers of Homage, had brought out John Langdon-Davies’s Behind the Spanish Barricades: Reports from the Spanish Civil War and it had been a best-seller.
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.
Davies was a war correspondent during the Spanish Civil War and the Russo-Finnish war. As a result of his experiences in Spain, he founded the Foster Parents' Scheme for refugee children in Spain, now called Plan International.
Plan International was founded in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War by British journalist John Langdon-Davies and aid worker Eric Muggeridge. Eric was one of five brothers, including journalist and satirist Malcolm Muggeridge.
In 1936, John Langdon-Davies went to Spain to report on the May Day celebrations for the "News Chronicle." By the time he returned in August, civil war was raging, and many of those he had...
It was Spain, 1937. The Civil War was raging on, and bombs were raining down on cities and towns. Thousands of children were being orphaned and displaced. That’s where we start Plan’s story. It all began with John Langdon-Davies, a British war journalist, and Eric Muggeridge, a refugee worker.
