John Peet

A little humourous taster from the 20th Anniversary issue of DGR

SARTORIAL NOTES FROM ALL OVER

"Mr John Peet, a British journalist who chose Soviet freedom three years ago, surprised East and West alike and himself most of all by turning up (at a press reception) in dinner dress, the only one to be seen in the assembly,"

("News Chronicle", London, February 1st 1954)

"John Peet was present (at the reception mentioned above, JP). According to his former colleagues he had changed from a correct and sartorially exquisite Briton into a shabby East German,"

("Algemeen Handelsblad", Holland, February 4th 1954)

"From year to year Peet has been becoming more and more proletarianised ...

"Since the middle of last week he once again wears a fashionable checked waistcoat as he used to do,"

("Spiegel", West Germany, February 2nd 1954)

"John Peet ... a humorous, attractive, untidy man in his early fifties ... His suit was nondescript,"

("Daily Telegraph Magazine", July 23rd 1971)

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