2 Quotes & Sayings By Cs Okelly
C.S. O'Kelly was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1891. He became an Anglican priest in 1908, but left the ministry after five years because he could not reconcile the doctrine of original sin with his own burgeoning enthusiasm for the rights of man. In a letter to a friend, he wrote: "I cannot believe that a God who would create a world so full of misery and pain and who gives his only son to die for our sins can have any love for me." In 1914 he took a job as a reporter with the London Daily Telegraph and remained there for thirty-seven years as a foreign correspondent, spending much of that time as Rome bureau chief
In 1939 he covered both world wars as a foreign correspondent and covered many other major events from within Britain's borders, including the General Strike of 1926, the Irish Free State constitution of 1937, the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, the Suez Crisis of 1956 and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. His work has been translated into twenty-eight languages and he is widely regarded as one of the finest reporters of his generation. He was awarded CBE in 1948 and knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1966 for his outstanding contribution to journalism.