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Showing posts with label Oxford. Show all posts
Ralph
Eight year old Ralph was in tears when his little friend Charlie left Glasgow and went off to live in Russia.
The Russia of 1927 was supposed to be some kind of Utopia.
Russia 1927
Russia 1927
But Ralph was not a believer in Utopias.
Ralph's mother had died of cancer.
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Shared toilets in the Gorbals often overflowed. "Rats and mice moved about freely, seeming to share the accomodation with us grudgingly..."
Ralph lived in the Gorbals, a slum of the sort that can be found in Calcutta.
In the Gorbals many children suffered from rickets and went about barefoot.
Gorbals by Bert Hardy. "The streets were slippery with refuse and often with drunken vomit. It was a place of grime and poverty"
Ralph went to the station to see Charlie off.
Ralph did not accompany Charlie's family onto the platform as he could not afford the platform ticket.
"Ralph's eyes were so full of tears that he could see Charlie only dimly through them...
"Charlie pressed against the iron trellis gates, and stared and stared and poured tears on to the cold metal."
Russia in the 1920s
Ralph wrote to Charlie many times.
Months went by.
No letter came.
No letter came.
Ralph was not a believer in Utopias.
Gorbals by Bert Hardy.
Ralph Glasser, one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, has been compared to Zola and Gorky.
Ralph Glasser won a scholarship to Oxford and became a writer, an economist, a psychologist and an adviser to developing countries.
Ralph Glasser - Telegraph
Gorbals
Ralph Glasser's memoirs "tackle the Big Questions, from the meaning of life to the travails of love: rhetorical questions abound, as do capitalised references to Destiny and Providence."
Gorbals. The Victorian building, in red sandstone blackened by smoke…was in decay. Splintered and broken floorboards sometimes gave way under your feet. Interior walls carried patches of stain from a long succession of burst pipes."
Ralph Glasser was born in 1916, and was brought up in Glasgow's Gorbals, one of the worst slums in Europe.
Gorbals by Bert Hardy
Ralph lived on the top floor of a three-storey tenement in Warwick Street.
"The lavatory on the landing, shared with several other families, frequently overflowed, and young Ralph shared a bed with his parents in an alcove off the kitchen.
"His mother died when he was six, his two older sisters decamped as soon as they could, and Ralph was left alone with his father, whose addiction to gambling made life still more perilous."
Ralph Glasser - Telegraph
Gorbals.
Ralph left school at 14 and went to work as a "soap boy" in a barber's shop, and then as a presser in a garment factory.
Ralph spent his evenings in the public library and at night school.
Gorbals by Bert Hardy
At the end of the 1930s Ralph won a scholarship to Oxford.
Ralph could not afford the train fare from Glasgow to Oxford.
So Ralph cycled the whole way, 400 miles.
Gorbals by Bert hardy
Philip Toynbee tried, without success, to enroll Ralph in the Communist Party.
Ralph wrote Growing up in the Gorbals (1986), Gorbals Boy at Oxford (1988), Gorbals Voices, Siren Songs (1990), The Far Side of Desire (1994) and Gorbals Legacy (2000).
Gorbals by Nick Hedges.
Ralph Glasser was the son of Russian Jewish immigrants.
Ralph Glasser The Gorbals boy who cycled to Oxford University
Roy Jenkins (above) was gay and is suspected of having been a CIA asset.
Roy Jenkins was the UK government minister in charge of the security service MI5.
Roy Jenkins led the campaign to get Britain into the European Union.
Roy Jenkins became President of the European Commission
Crosland wrote a letter to Jenkins in which he referred to Jenkins as his 'boy friend' and as a ‘handsome (and pansy) Beau Geste'.
Neither "had any relations at all with members of the other sex - we were each too wrapped up in our own two interwoven lives".
However, perhaps for political reasons, both Jenkins and Crosland got married to members of the opposite sex.
Roy Jenkins was the UK government minister in charge of the security service MI5.
Tony Crosland
Anthony Crosland, who became UK Foreign Secretary in charge of MI6, was one of Roy Jenkins's lovers.
Roy Jenkins led the campaign to get Britain into the European Union.
Roy Jenkins became President of the European Commission
Roy Jenkins: A Well-Rounded Life by John Campbell, to be published by Jonathan Cape on 27 March 2014. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
Jenkins met Crosland at Oxford University and the two of them were intimate friends for 38 years.
At Oxford, Crosland was openly gay.
Jenkins was sexually seduced by Crosland.
Crosland wrote a letter to Jenkins in which he referred to Jenkins as his 'boy friend' and as a ‘handsome (and pansy) Beau Geste'.
Neither "had any relations at all with members of the other sex - we were each too wrapped up in our own two interwoven lives".
However, perhaps for political reasons, both Jenkins and Crosland got married to members of the opposite sex.
(ROY JENKINS: A WELL-ROUNDED LIFE by John Campbell - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/)
Roy Jenkins (above) had lots of mistresses and he mixed with the likes of Jackie Kennedy and Lord Victor Rothschild.
Lord Annan was married to Gabriele Ullstein.
Lord Annan
In 1966, Lord Annan, as 'provost' of King's College, Cambridge, held a dinner party at his home.
This was attended by Lord Victor Rothschild, 'Home Secretary' Roy Jenkins (responsible for MI5) and Anthony Blunt (reportedly a key member of Lord Victor Rothschild's spy ring).
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
Before he became President of the European Commission, a dinner was given by a group of his closest male friends, hosted by Sir John Jacob Astor and Victor Rothschild. They drank Chateau Lafite Rothschild 1945.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.
Victor Rothschild
Roy Jenkins Jenkins was educated at Balliol College, Oxford.
During the World War II, Jenkins worked as a codebreaker at Bletchley Park.
Roy Jenkins: A Well-Rounded Life by John Campbell, to be published by Jonathan Cape on 27 March 2014
Roy Jenkins's first mistress was a spy called Barley Alison.
Barley Alison worked at one time for the UK's Special Operations Executive (SOE).
In 1965, and again in 1974, Jenkins became Home Secretary, the minister in charge of MI5.
The influence of intelligence services on the British left
Jenkins led the successful "yes" campaign in the referendum on membership of the European Economic Community.
In 1977 Jenkins became president of the European Commission in Brussels.
In 1977 Jenkins became president of the European Commission in Brussels.
He laid the foundations for what was later to become the single currency, the Euro, in 2002.
Roy Jenkins : Biography - Spartacus Educational
Roy Jenkins : Biography - Spartacus Educational
Mary Jennifer Morris and Roy Jenkins
Roy Jenkins was married to Mary Jennifer Morris.
Roy Jenkins had an affair with Lady Caroline Gilmour, who was Lady Caroline Montagu Douglas Scott, daughter of the eighth Duke of Buccleuch.
Lady Caroline
Jenkins also had an affair with Leslie Bonham Carter
Leslie Bonham Carter
Jenkins "was a man of many mistresses and sexual intrigues, a two-timing and even three- timing husband."
Jenkins got to know Jackie Kennedy.
Jenkins "was a man of many mistresses and sexual intrigues, a two-timing and even three- timing husband."
Jenkins got to know Jackie Kennedy.
They exchanged letters and lunched together whenever she was in London or he in New York.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk
Jenkins was also close to Jackie's sister, Lee Bouvier, who lived in England.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk
Jenkins was also close to Jackie's sister, Lee Bouvier, who lived in England.
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