Douglas Basil Machray (1 September 191115 June 1977) was a British newspaper editor, and the editor of the ''

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'' from 1957 to 1960. Douglas Basil Machray was born in Lancashire, England, on 1 September 1911. Machray was 46 when he took over from the sacked

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as editor of the ''

'' in 1957, having previously been in sub-editing, then production editor. Machray shifted the paper's stance to being in favour of

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, which was supported by the majority of its readers, and the left of the Labour Party, but not its leaders, or the TUC. Machray died in 1977.

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