A ‘Wholly Unjustifiable Treatment of British Subject’? The Detention of W. T. Goode in the Baltic, 1919
Journal: History
Year: 2025

Abstract 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 press and questions in parliament. Reaction to the case divided along ideological lines, with right‐wing newspapers and some officials convinced that he was a ‘dangerous’ Bolshevik agent, while