Wickham Steed

H. Wickham Steed full name Henry Wickham Steed (October 10, 1871 - January 13, 1956) was a British journalist and historian. He was born in Long Melford, England.

Appointed by Joseph Pulitzer as Paris correspondent for the New York World. He joined The Times of London as a foreign correspondent and was editor from 1919 until his resignation in 1922. The following year he became editor of Review of Reviews (1923-30), the journal that had been established by William Stead in 1890. An leading expert on Eastern Europe, his views had much influence with decision-makers such as high level bureaucrats and Cabinet politicians in the First World War and its aftermath. During the war, Steed befriended anti-Habsburg émigrés such as Edvard Benes, Tomas Masaryk and Roman Dmowski and advised the British government to seek the liquation of Austria-Hungary as a war aim. Steed was anti-semitic and a Germanophobe; in a editoral he wrote in the London Times in 1914, he labeled efforts to stop the impeding war as "German-Jewish trick".

Books by H. Wickham Steed

• The Hapsburg Monarchy (1913)
• A Short History of Austria-Hungary and Poland (1914).