He received an award from the Royal Geographical Society for his exploration of Chinese Turkistan, while still in the army.[2] He retired from military service in the mid 1930s and taught English in Japan.[2] He was Professor of English Literature, Keio University and lecturer at Imperial and Bunrika Universities, Tokyo from 1938 and also adviser on the English language to Japan's Dept. of Foreign affairs.[4] He was repatriated by the Diplomatic corps after Japan's entry into the Second World War and joined the BBC, running their Far East service.[2]
Morris was head of the BBC Far Eastern Service 1943–1952, and controller for the BBC Third Programme 1952–1958.[5] From February 1943 to October 1943 he worked in the same department as George Orwell, at 200 Oxford Street. He wrote an article about Orwell, "Some are more equal than others", for Penguin New Writing Number 40, September 1950 which was reprinted in Orwell Remembered with the title "That Curiously Crucified Expression":
George Orwell always reminded me of one of those figures on the front of Chartres Cathedral [-] my inability to enjoy his filthy cigarettes was symbolic; it represented other things which made any sort of intimacy between us quite impossible.
Ruttledge, Hugh (1937). Everest: The Unfinished Adventure. Hodder and Staughton.
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^Gjerde, Arild; Jeroen Heijmans; Bill Mallon; Hilary Evans (October 2017). . Olympics. Sports Reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
^"Desert Island Discs - Castaway : John Morris". BBC Online. BBC. Retrieved 27 July 2014.
^Morris, John (1968). Eating The Indian Air. London: Hamish Hamilton Ltd. ISBN0241016207.
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