Jean Iris Ross Cockburn was a British journalist, political activist, and film critic. A devout Stalinist, she became a lifelong member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, and she worked as a fil
After spending her childhood in the British protectorate of Egypt, Ross was educated at Leatherhead Court, Surrey.
Writer Christopher Isherwood (left) and his friend W. H. Auden (right)
A parade of Nazi brownshirts in Weimar Berlin in 1932. By the time Ross and Isherwood fled Berlin, these parades had become a regular occurrence.
Francis Claud Cockburn was a British journalist. His saying "believe nothing until it has been officially denied" is widely quoted in journalistic studies, but he did not claim credit for originating