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The Sunday Dispatch was a British newspaper, published between 27 September, 1801 and 1961.^[1][2]

First published as the Weekly Dispatch in 1801, it was bought by Alfred Harmsworth and Lord Rothermere in 1903^[3] from the Newnes family.^[4] The pair turned the newspaper around from bankruptcy, and made it the biggest selling Sunday newspaper, changing its name to the Sunday Dispatch in 1928.

In 1940, then editor Charles Eade asked Winston Churchill weeks before he became British Prime Minister for permission to publish an article Churchill wrote in 1937 entitled "How The Jews Can Combat Persecution" - Churchill, recognising the changed political situation, refused.^[5].

In late summer 1950, the Dispatch was partly responsible for launching the Flying Saucer debate in th UK, when in a circulation battle with the "Sunday Express," both papers competed to serialise the seminal books by Major Donald Keyhoe "Flying Saucers are Real," Frank Scully’s "Behind the Flying Saucers" and Gerald Heard's "Riddle of the Flying Saucers." Eade had been encouraged to promote ‘flying saucer’ stories by his friend Lord Mountbatten whom he had served as Press officer during the Second World War.^[6]

Its last editor was Walter Hayes, and it ceased publication in 1961.

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