Word: gunthers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London Daily Herald, got into Soviet China by means of such melodramatic dodges as a letter written in invisible ink, meetings with Soviet spies in Chiang Kai-shek's army, a night trip through the front lines. Last week, in a 474-page volume* that John Gunther (Inside Europe) called "as good a job of reporting as has ever been done," he gave U. S. readers the results of his four months' observation of Soviet China, his nine years' experience in the Far East. The first correspondent to get inside Red China's lines, Edgar Snow...
Meanwhile, Satevepost readers were advised last week by famed Newsbooker John Gunther to regard Manchukuo as "Contemporary Political Fiction No. i" and Ethiopia as C. P. F. No. 2. "Ethiopia has about as much political reality today as Carthage-which the Italians also destroyed," wrote Mr. Gunther. "The 'Emperor' Haile Selassie is about as concrete a living political force today as Beowulf or General Grant. Yet the Ethiopians still send delegations to Geneva, the 'country' is considered a member of the League of Nations, and the great powers-except Italy, which seized it- appear still...
HEYDAY IN A VANISHED WORLD-Stephen Bonsai-Norton ($3.50). Another newspaperman's Personal History, antedating the days of Sheean, Farson, Gunther, Duranty. As reporter for the New York Herald under James Gordon Bennett. Bonsai interviewed Parnell, saw Arthur James Balfour, Clemenceau, Briand plain and young...
...readers boiled-down versions of full-length books. This week the U. S. saw the result-a 25? Book Digest, of which 75,000 copies were distributed to the stands of American News Co. First issue of Book Digest had condensations of ten recent books, fast-sellers like John Gunther's Inside Europe, Herbert Asbury's The French Quarter, Pearl Buck's Fighting Angel...
INSIDE EUROPE-John Gunther-Harper...