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- Birth nameRichard Howard Stafford Crossman
- Richard Crossman was born on December 15, 1907 in London, England, UK. He was a writer, known for German Concentration Camps Factual Survey (2014), Frontline (1983) and One Pair of Eyes (1967). He was married to Anne McDougall, Inezita Baker and Erika Gluck. He died on April 5, 1974 in Banbury, Oxfordshire, England, UK.
- SpousesAnne McDougall(June 3, 1954 - April 5, 1974) (his death, 2 children)Inezita Baker(December 18, 1937 - July 6, 1952) (her death)Erika Gluck(July 15, 1932 - 1934) (divorced)
- Political commentator on radio and Labour MP for Coventry East from 1945
- From 1943 to 1945, he served as Deputy Director of Psychological Warfare at Allied Forces Headquarters in Algiers and later as Assistant Chief of the Psychological Warfare Division of Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force.
- Assistant Editor of the New Statesman and Nation from July 1938 to August 1955; edited the New Statesman from June 1970 until March 1972.
- Held three different ministerial posts in the 1964-1970 Labour government: Minister for Housing and Local Government (1964-1966), Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (1966-1968) and Secretary for Health and Social Services (1968-1970).
- My radical passions have never been based on a moral or egalitarian philosophy. It's really been an expression of my bump of irreverence, based on my conviction that governments and establishments are fools and that participation by the people will probably improve government in this country.
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