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Fraternizing, Early Style. In the days of peace, Paul Scott Mowrer covered Versailles and wrote a book, Our Foreign Affairs, denouncing...
Last week, Paul Scott Mowrer (rhymes with how were), now a balding, portly, pontifical gentleman whom postcard vendors would not dream of approaching, was again in Paris, this time as editor of the Paris Post, the New York Post's Paris sister. He had found it quite necessary to write about European politics; and by this time everyone took the necessity for granted. In the U.S., his curiously titled autobiography, The House of Europe (Houghton, Mifflin; $3.75), had just appeared...
From the first, Mowrer had the feeling -not widely shared by far-off U.S. editors -that Europe was a real and important place. He dutifully interviewed Chicagoans who came to play in Paris, learned to duck when they wanted a French-speaking guide to the brothels. In 1911, he got excited by Italy's war on Turkey, but when his editors did not share his excitement, "I wrote a furious poem in blank verse, denouncing the peoples of the Western world for [their] complacency. . . . With men killing each other in the desert, I got a request to pick...
Paul Scott Mowrer filed his first stories of World War I from the French side, then dangerously skipped behind German lines and out again. When he reached Paris a U.P. man showed him a wire from the U.P. home office: "WAR INTEREST DIMINISHING. HOLD DOWN. WORLD SERIES BEGINS MONDAY...
...kind of reporting, by able newsmen who knew how to look hard at politics and finance, was coming from Europe. Brother Edgar's Germany Puts the Clock Back was one of the first to cry alarm over Hitler. In 1934, the late Frank Knox brought Paul Mowrer back to Chicago, to be editor of the News. "I was tired of Europe," he wrote, "tired of watching French and British mistakes, and the Germans getting ready for war." There his autobiography ends...