Word: mowrer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Infected by the general excitement, U. S. foreign correspondents became fairly spooky themselves. "There is fairly reliable talk," cabled the Chicago Daily New's Edgar Ansel Mowrer at 7? a word, "of check stubs being found signed by a certain German. There is much talk of a certain French Deputy. Various members of the always peculiar 'French-German Committee,' among whose members could generally be found champions of giving Führer Adolf Hitler a free hand in Eastern Europe-naturally only by coincidence-have found sleep more difficult, it is said...
Dorothy Thompson prophesied that Adolf Hitler would never rule Germany. Herbert Matthews called the Italian defeat at Guadalajara one of the decisive battles of history. Liddell Hart said Ethiopian mobile tactics would probably swamp Mussolini's invaders. Edgar Ansel Mowrer said that two years of the Chinese War would see Japan's morale crack. G. E. R. Gedye said the Czechoslovakian Army would fight before it would yield. And long ago, before modern methods of communication made foreign correspondence a large and thriving profession, the London Times asserted that, in capturing Atlanta, Sherman had merely lengthened his lines...
Married. Richard Scott Mowrer, Rome correspondent of the Chicago Daily News, son of its editor, Paul Scott Mowrer, nephew of its Paris correspondent, Edgar Ansel Mowrer; and Rosamund Cole, of the Paris edition of the New York Herald Tribune; in Rome, 20 minutes before the bridegroom had to leave Italy because the censor did not like his dispatches...
Edgar Ansel Mowrer is former head of the Foreign Press Association in Berlin, winner of a 1933 Pulitzer Prize for his despatches on the rise of Hitler, and author of Germany Puts the Clock Back-the book that got him kicked out of Germany. Last year he spent several months in Central and North China, interviewed foreigners, Chinese, the "Amazing Soong Family," watched a Japanese bombing massacre with U. S.-made planes, saw the guerrillas in action behind the Japanese lines...
...Chinese since the "remarriage" of the Kuomintang and the Communists, their unexpected bravery when properly led in battle, the success of the Communist-inspired, guerrilla tactics. They particularly make the point that Japan cannot hold more than the cities and lines of communication. She has occupied China, declares Mowrer, "about as effectively as a few swimmers can be said to 'occupy' a swimming pool...