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James Erasmus Tracy Philipps MC FRAI FRGS (20 November 1888 – 21 July 1959) was a British public servant. Philipps was, in various guises, a soldier, colonial administrator, traveller, journalist, propagandist, conservationist, and secret agent. He served as a British Army intelligence officer in the East African and Middle Eastern theatre of the First World War, which led to brief stints in journalism and relief work in the aftermath of the Greco-Turkish War. Joining the Colonial Office, his reform-minded agenda as a District Commissioner in Colonial Uganda alienated superiors and soon resulted in the termination of his position.

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  • James Erasmus Tracy Philipps MC FRAI FRGS (20 November 1888 – 21 July 1959) was a British public servant. Philipps was, in various guises, a soldier, colonial administrator, traveller, journalist, propagandist, conservationist, and secret agent. He served as a British Army intelligence officer in the East African and Middle Eastern theatre of the First World War, which led to brief stints in journalism and relief work in the aftermath of the Greco-Turkish War. Joining the Colonial Office, his reform-minded agenda as a District Commissioner in Colonial Uganda alienated superiors and soon resulted in the termination of his position. He worked as a foreign correspondent for The Times in Eastern Europe, and spent much of the Second World War in Canada attempting to build support among ethnic minorities for British war objectives. Following a frustrating experience helping to resettle displaced persons as a United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration official, and Cold War propaganda activities with the secretive Information Research Department, Philipps' attention was increasingly taken up by his longstanding interest in conservation. In the final years of his life he led efforts to create African National Parks as Secretary-General of the International Union for Conservation of Nature. The product of an old, upper-class family, Philipps possessed determination and high self-esteem as well as a great deal of ambition – though his personal eccentricity sometimes undermined his goals. (en)
  • Джеймс Едвард Трейсі Філіпс (англ. James Edward Tracy Philipps, ; 1888-1959) — британський дипломат і дослідник. (uk)
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  • 1888-11-20 (xsd:date)
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  • James Edward Tracy Philipps (en)
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  • 1959-07-21 (xsd:date)
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  • 1959-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
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  • Durham University (en)
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  • Oxford University (en)
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  • 1888-11-20 (xsd:date)
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  • James Edward Tracy Philipps (en)
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  • St Kenelm's Church, Enstone (en)
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  • 1959-07-21 (xsd:date)
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  • Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, UK (en)
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  • Tracy Philipps (en)
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  • 'The Members of the Institut have lived to see the Pontine Marshes thick with corn. Love for the peasant people of Italy has been felt by every Englishman who has lived among them. Whatever our views, few will wish to deny that the maker of modern Italy has also been animated and energised by cette parcelle d'amour sans laquelle il ne se fond rien de grand.’ (en)
  • "Only moral education and European instruction can hope to help the still undiscriminating peoples to attain such stature as to reach up, pick up and distinguish the poisonous from the life-giving fruits of the tree of knowledge-of-good-and-evil of European ways." (en)
  • "Europe needs Africa and Africa needs Europe. The clock cannot be put back." (en)
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  • 1939.0
  • "The Tide of Colour: I.--Pan-Africa and Anti-White", Journal of the Royal African Society, 1922, p. 135 (en)
  • "The New Africa - II", The Nineteenth Century and After, 1938, p. 353 (en)
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  • Джеймс Едвард Трейсі Філіпс (англ. James Edward Tracy Philipps, ; 1888-1959) — британський дипломат і дослідник. (uk)
  • James Erasmus Tracy Philipps MC FRAI FRGS (20 November 1888 – 21 July 1959) was a British public servant. Philipps was, in various guises, a soldier, colonial administrator, traveller, journalist, propagandist, conservationist, and secret agent. He served as a British Army intelligence officer in the East African and Middle Eastern theatre of the First World War, which led to brief stints in journalism and relief work in the aftermath of the Greco-Turkish War. Joining the Colonial Office, his reform-minded agenda as a District Commissioner in Colonial Uganda alienated superiors and soon resulted in the termination of his position. (en)
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  • Tracy Philipps (en)
  • Філіпс Джеймс Едвард Трейсі (uk)
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