Name	Bartlett, Vernon
Alternative Names
ID	360
Gender	male
Lifespan	1894-04-30 - 1983-01-18
Professions	journalist (Q1930187), foreign correspondent, British

Collection(s)	Default import collection Transatlantic Networks webclient
Uri(s)	https://id.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/ica/persons/1_20
Notes	As a foreign observer of the Austrian Civil War, Bartlett did not join the majority of British journalists in condemning the political acts of the leaders of the conservative and clerical party in Austria. In his autobiographical reminiscences contained in This Is My Life, first published in 1937, Bartlett expressed his sympathy for their dilemma, describing it as desperate. Unlike others, he also did not condemn Chancellor Dollfuss. Following the assassination of the Chancellor in July 1934, he expressed his respect for the “cheerful, well-meaning, hard-working little man” (224), whose funeral he attended and covered in a broadcast to England. In his role as an early broadcaster Bartlett thus mediated an image of the situation in Austria in 1934 which differed from that furnished by most Anglophone journalists.(Zacharasiewicz, Transatlantic Networks, p. 186)