1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Coventry East Constituency – Biography of Crossman

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Coventry East

CANDIDATE : Crossman

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. H. S. Crossman who failed in the West Birmingham by-election in 1937, was born in 1907, and educated at Winchester and Oxford. He turned to lecturing in preference to following his father, a High Court Judge, into the legal profession. He organized psychological warfare against Germany and was one of the B.B.C.’s leading speakers in German. A member of General Eisenhower’s Anglo-American propaganda team in North Africa, he later joined Shaef in a similar capacity. He has been assistant editor of the New Statesman and Nation since 1945. He entered Parliament in 1945.

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