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International Relations Firsthand...
...almost three years, and overseas (Southwest Pacific) for twelve months, I can corroborate the statement made by one of your readers when he said that this is a "thinking" army (TIME, Aug. 9). ... Our men are scattered throughout the world, and are learning what is meant by "international relations" firsthand...
...Charles Wertenbaker, Senior Editor for Foreign News and World Battlefronts, longtime Associate Editor of FORTUNE, now TIME'S most traveled editorial executive. He has only recently flown back from four months at the front in Tunisia, last year visited both Britain and South America to get the firsthand feel of the overseas news...
...They earned the respect of all the officers and men that they contacted," said Lieut. Colonel Fergusson's official report. "Their stories vere the result of firsthand information secured under fire and not concocted in the safety of some rear area...
Marjorie Smith specializes in the Middle East-has both her B.A. and her M.A. in modern history - was working toward her Ph.D. in England when the war broke out. And we have two Foreign News researchers who can tell you firsthand just what the Nazis are like. Louise Bronaugh worked eight years in Europe, was in Paris when the Germans took over. She lived three months under the swistika-finally escaped to Vichy with the help of an old Frenchwoman who led her along 16 miles of backwoods roads at night...