A 'Wholly Unjustifiable Treatment of British Subject'? The Detention of W. T. Goode in the Baltic, 1919.
In the summer of 1919, W. T. Goode, the Manchester Guardian's special correspondent in Russia and the Baltic, was arrested in the Estonian capital Tallinn and briefly detained aboard a British warship. Goode's detention caused a furore, leading to accusations of kidnap, heated commentary in the pres...
| Publicado en: | History Vol. 111; no. 396; pp. 386 - 404 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jun2026
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