[1] During the 1956 Suez Crisis, Thompson dissented from the critical line taken by the paper's editor, Michael Curtis, and supported Anthony Eden's decision to retake the Suez Canal by force.
Curtis allowed Thompson to air his views on the paper's feature page.
[2] The News Chronicle's circulation declined, which Geoffrey Goodman attributed to its opposition to Suez, and the paper folded in 1960.
[4] A Time to Laugh (1953) is a comic novel about the son of an African chieftain who enrols as a soldier in the Second World War.
[5] His history of the Metropolitan Police, The Story of Scotland Yard (1954), was recommended by the Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction for inclusion in school libraries.