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Sir Henry Channon (7 March 1897 – 7 October 1958), often known as Chips Channon, was an American-born British Conservative politician, author and diarist. Channon moved to England in 1920 and became strongly anti-American, feeling that American cultural and economic views threatened traditional European and British civilisation.
14 de fev. de 2022 · Born in 1897 in Chicago, Channon spent a few years in Paris mingling with the likes of Proust and Cocteau—he purports to be intimidated by the two “wittiest men in Europe” before blithely ...
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Channon does his best to support his hero, Prime ...more. For our April meeting, the Earl of Essex returned with his third talk on the diaries of Henry 'Chips' Channon. "In the second...
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- The New Sheridan Club
9 de mar. de 2021 · Such a man was Sir Henry “Chips” Channon, Conservative MP, snob, bigot and social mountaineer, who perfectly embodied the qualities vital to the task: a capacious ear for gossip, a neat turn...
- Jesse Norman
13 de mar. de 2021 · Review. Henry ‘Chips’ Channon review – the celebrated diaries, unredacted. Sex, scandal, kinks and queens … edited by Simon Heffer, these interwar diaries by the Tory MP are a masterpiece of...
4 de abr. de 2021 · Henry 'Chips' Channon: The Diaries 1918-38 review – priceless interwar gossip. Editor Simon Heffer brings us the first, sensationally unexpurgated volume of the musings of the Chicago-born ...
3 de mar. de 2021 · Channon was a snobbish, sexually voracious Tory who revered Hitler – and a new edition of his journals shines a startling light on interwar Britain. By Andrew Marr. (Photo By Trustees of the literary estate of Henry â?oChipsâ?? Channon) The interwar years are not, broadly speaking, remembered fondly.
