Alec Dickson
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Alec Dickson
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Dr Alexander Graeme Dickson CBE was the founder of Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO). Dickson graduated from Oxford University in 1935 and worked as a foreign correspondent in Central Europe during the rise of Hitler. He also helped groups of young people in the slums of Leeds and London. The Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia resulted in Dickson working in refugee relief. Reportedly, his name was number 57 on a list of those to be arrested by the Gestapo. After the war, Dickson spent 15 years in
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British activist
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2023-09-27T06:32:20Z
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