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MR JOHN ELLISON

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News Department

Date: 12 June 1991

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I understand that a lunch has been arranged for 11 July.

Lord Caithness may find it useful to glance at the following

CV before meeting Mr Ellison:

Northern years:

1949/51 Birkenhead News (edited Bebington News)

1951/53 Liverpool Evening Express

1953/55 Manchester Evening News: edit. Prompter Amateur

theatre column

1955/56 Daily Mail Manchester

1956/58 Daily Mail London

Fleet Street:

1958/59 Edited Hickey Column, Daily Express

& 61/63

1963/73 D. Express Bureau Chief, Paris covering de Gaulle/

continuing British Euro bids/also Brussels Netherlands

N. Africa: plus Bardot, Rainiers show biz etc.

1973/74 Bureau Chief New York: travelled in US etc political and

social coverage. Daily New York column "This is America".

Foreign Editor, D. Express, plus assignments Mid East,

Iran, fall of Shah, Southern Africa/Rhodesia-Zimbabwe:

South Africa from 1977 onwards. The Israel conundrum:

Hong Kong, the Koreas and Japan and continuing

Euro-coverage to include Brussels, E.

1974

1990

Union.

Europe, Soviet

1982/90 Assitant Editor, D. Express including home and foreign

news. Continued writing assignments roughly as above. Early retirement and took up some modest overseas strings: Hong Kong, South Africa plus contributing to Daily Express.

David Crystal

David Crystal

News Department