Word: alcott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...WITH JAPAN - Carroll Alcott -Holt...
Drugs and Assassinations. Carroll Alcott (TIME, May 31) began to hate the Japanese in 1927, when, as a Manila news paperman investigating Japanese fortifications he found himself blocked and thwarted by Japanese agents in the Philippines. The principal one: his barber. My War With Japan is intermingled newspaper reminiscences and history of such Oriental affairs as the Japanese drug trade, together with a blow-by-blow account of how the Japanese tried to jam Alcott's anti-Japanese broadcasts from station XMHA in Shanghai. He was shot at and bombed; efforts were made to kidnap him and break...
...Alcott: "No man can call me that and live...
...first blow struck. Ziemer swears he did nothing but fend off his assailant. Alcott says: "I took him." A studio guard intervened, ordered Alcott outside and locked the door. Through the door Ziemer understood Alcott to say: "You're a German spy." "That wasn't what I said at all," said Alcott. "I said that sometimes he sounded like a Nazi...
...Next day Alcott was no longer working for WLW. (". . . Regrettable . . . highly emotional state of mind. . . .") He went east to see about his forthcoming book, My War With Japan. Ziemer posed for photographers, said he had bruised his hand trying to save himself from hitting the floor after the fracas...