In 1928 Owen O'Malley
, with other members of the foreign service, was accused of speculating in francs: what became known as the francs case. His Times obituary suggested that he would have been...
Family and Intimate relationships
Ann Bridge
Mary Sanders (later AB
) married Owen O'Malley
(a member of the British Foreign Office
and as he put it himself an autocthonous Irishman,
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(17 April 1974): 16
later knighted) at St Mark's Church...
names
Ann Bridge
BirthName: Mary Dolling Sanders
Nickname: Cottie
Her family were great givers of nicknames; this was hers.
Self-constructed: Mary Anne
AB
was called Mary Anne as a girl, although Anne was not one of her baptismal...
Textual Production
Ann Bridge
In Permission to Resign,: Goings-on in the Corridors of Power, Ann Bridge
provided an account of her husband
's forced resignation from the Foreign Office
in 1928 and the successful campaign to re-instate him.
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Textual Production
Ann Bridge
Ann Bridge
and Susan Lowndes
together published The Selective Traveller in Portugal (where Bridge had lived while her husband
was ambassador there).
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Travel
Ann Bridge
The husband
of Mary O'Malley (soon to become the writer AB
) was posted to the British Legation
in Peking: not a position he coveted, but one which enabled her to explore the old Imperial...
Travel
Ann Bridge
After six months of the phoney war, AB
travelled to Hungary to join her husband
, who had been British Ambassador there since the previous year.
Bridge, Ann. Facts and Fictions. Chatto and Windus, 1968.
71
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Timeline
13 April 1943: Berlin Radio reported that German soldiers...
National or international item
13 April 1943
Berlin Radio
reported that German soldiers had found 4,500 executed Polish officers buried at Katyn near Smolensk.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
146
Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World At Arms: A Global History of World War II. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
107, 468
In the words of historian Charles Messenger
: Although the Russians have not as...