7/4/2023 0 Comments William boot scoop![]() ![]() Of the voyage itself he had written (while practising on the typewriter given to him by the Daily Mail) to his future wife Laura Herbert: "This is a very decent ship but the people very dull all French colonials except for another journalist going to Abyssinia, called Emeny you will think I have spelled that wrong but no it is his name. Because the three of us shared the same quarters, we came to know each other well, but Waugh, who had travelled out on the same boat as Emeny, never lost a certain contempt for him. He was an experienced reporter, at one time the News Chronicle's chief reporter and, compared with someone like myself, a big hitter. I had encountered Emeny on earlier assignments in Britain. But that was not the barrier between them. ![]() ![]() It is true that Emeny represented a Liberal newspaper and Waugh at that time looked upon Mussolini favourably as a civilising influence in a savage country. This division comes out sharply in his relations with Stuart Emeny of the News Chronicle, who does not feature in Scoop but of whom Waugh wrote uncharitably in his earlier book Waugh in Abyssinia and in letters to friends at home. ![]()
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