Graham Stewart - The History of the Times - The Murdoch Years

Amid great secrecy, Dacre descended into the vault of the Handelsbank in Zurich chaperoned by Wilfried Sorge, Jan Hensmann, the financial director of Stern ’s parent company, and Stern ’s editor, Peter Koch. Dacre had been assured that the paper of the diaries had been definitively tested and dated to the correct period. This was untrue. Furthermore, he was assured that Stern knew the identity of the Wehrmacht officer who had retrieved the diaries from the wreck of the aircraft in April 1945 and in whose possession they had been kept until offered to the magazine. In fact, Stern

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Financial Times , 23 October 1980; UK Press Gazette , 27 October 1980.

Listener , 30 October 1980.

Price Waterhouse’s audit for the TNL Directors’ Report (Hamilton 9762/6).

UK Press Gazette , 27 October 1980.

Sir Gordon Brunton to the author, interview, 8 April 2003.

The Times , 23 October 1980.

Times Archive, Box 9383.1.

Patrick Marnham in Spectator , 20 February 1982.

Louis Heren on Panorama , BBC TV, 17 November 1980.

William Rees-Mogg, undated memo [22 October 1980], Box. 9335.

William Rees-Mogg, ‘Now The Times is going to fight for herself’, The Times , 23 October 1980.

In particular, see The Times , letters page, 28 October 1980.

Harold Evans, Good Times, Bad Times , pp. 97, 108.

John Grigg, The History of The Times , vol. VI: The Thomson Years , p. 554; Evans, Good Times, Bad Times , p. 108; Listener , 30 October 1980.

William Rees-Mogg to the author, interview, 3 December 2001.

William Rees-Mogg to the author, interview, 3 December 2001.

Quoted in Piers Brendon , The Life and Death of the Press Barons , p. 247.

Michael Leapman in The Times , 27 September 1980; Michael Leapman, Barefaced Cheek , p. 190.

William Rees-Mogg to the author, interview, 3 December 2001; Leapman, Barefaced Cheek , pp. 184–6; Evans, Good Times, Bad Times , pp. 96–7.

William Rees-Mogg to the author, interview, 3 December 2001; William Rees-Mogg in Independent , 29 October 1990.

Minutes of ad hoc committee on TNL, Thomson British Holdings Ltd, 18 September 1980. Hamilton Papers 9758/4.

Sir Gordon Brunton to the author, interview, 8 April 2003.

Rupert Murdoch to the author, interview, 4 August 2003.

Denis Hamilton, Editor-in-Chief .

Quoted in Simon Jenkins, The Market for Glory , p. 53.

Newsweek , 3 November 1980.

Sir Gordon Brunton to the author, interview, 8 April 2003.

Linda Melvern, The End of the Street , p. 175.

Tim Austin to the author, interview, 4 March 2003.

Marmaduke Hussey, Chance Governs All , pp. 129, 132.

Financial Times , 18 February 1986.

Bill O’Neill, Copy Out manuscript.

William Rees-Mogg to the author, interview, 3 December 2001; Hussey, Chance Governs All , p. 164.

Andrew Knight to the author, 2 December 2004.

Simon Jenkins, The Market for Glory , p. 149.

And the feeling appeared equally hostile among staff at the Sunday Times : Harold Evans to Sir Gordon Brunton, memo, 9 February 1980.

The Times , 30 August 1980.

Ibid.

Letters from Alan Reid and T. C. M. Powell, The Times , 30 August 1980.

William Rees-Mogg, unsigned leader, ‘How to Kill a Newspaper’, The Times , 30 August 1980.

Sir Gordon Brunton to the author, interview, 8 April 2003.

Lord Thomson of Fleet, press release, 22 October 1980. File 9335.

Harold Evans at a luncheon talk to Morgan Grampian journalists, quoted in UK Press Gazette , 27 October 1980.

Paul Johnson, Spectator , 31 January 1981.

Grigg, The Thomson Years , pp. 554, 556; Sir Gordon Brunton to the author, interview, 8 April 2003; Denis Hamilton, Editor-in-Chief , p. 179; Evans, Good Times, Bad Times , p. 125.

Evans, Good Times, Bad Times , pp. 89–91, 111, 125.

Iverach McDonald, The History of The Times , vol. V: Struggles in War and Peace 1939–1966 , pp. 409–28; Jenkins, Market for Glory , p. 53.

Rupert Murdoch to the author, interview, 4 August 2003.

Sir Gordon Brunton to the author, interview, 8 April 2003.

Quoted in S. J. Taylor, An Unlikely Hero , p. 180.

Sir Gordon Brunton to the author, interview, 8 April 2003.

Richard Searby to the author, interview, 11 June 2002.

Evans, Good Times, Bad Times , p. 122.

Sir Denis Hamilton to Sir Gordon Brunton, 9 January 1980, Brunton Papers.

Sir Denis Hamilton to the Directors of TNHL, 16 January 1981. Hamilton Papers.

Evans, Good Times, Bad Times , pp. 106–7.

Harold Evans to Sir Gordon Brunton, 20 January 1981, (underlining as in original), Brunton Papers.