promoted and funded by a propaganda wing of the British Foreign Office, the Information Research Department (IRD). Quotations Often quoted is I gave my life for freedom - this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so. This is the refrain of his anti-war poem Five Souls, which Ewer contributed to the British Nation on 3 October 1914. Also attributed to him is the epigram How odd of God/To choose the Jews. This was said to Benno Moisewitsch at London's Savage Club, at some point in the 1920s. Family Ewer married in 1912 Monica Thompson, daughter of the barrister William Marcus Thompson. She was a novelist. The silent film Not for Sale was adapted from one of her books. She also acted as secretary of the National Guilds League. The zoologist and physiologist Denis William Ewer (1913–2009) was their son. References Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge British male journalists 1885 births 1977 deaths