{"id":429398,"date":"2022-04-09T23:14:16","date_gmt":"2022-04-09T20:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/these-american-reporters-covered-europe-between-world-wars\/"},"modified":"2022-04-09T23:14:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T20:14:16","slug":"these-american-reporters-covered-europe-between-world-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/these-american-reporters-covered-europe-between-world-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"#These American reporters covered Europe between world wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2193425d616\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2193425d616\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/these-american-reporters-covered-europe-between-world-wars\/#%E2%80%9CThese_American_reporters_covered_Europe_between_world_wars%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;These American reporters covered Europe between world wars&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CThese_American_reporters_covered_Europe_between_world_wars%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;These American reporters covered Europe between world wars&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>In the early 1920s, American <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>papers were just beginning to hire Americans as foreign correspondents. They had had them in wartime \u2014 almost always men who made their names reporting from far-away battlefields \u2014\u00a0but not during other times, when they tended to rely on wire services like Reuters and Associated Press (which in turn got their stories from local press). \u201cThis changed with the war, the 50,000 doughboys dead in France, and the settlement in Versailles,\u201d writes Deborah Cohen in her new book, \u201cLast Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War,\u201d (Random House). \u201cNow Americans required their own eyes and ears abroad. Never again would the Europeans, particularly the British, trick naive Yankees into a costly Continental entanglement.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At that time, seven major newspapers were building up extensive foreign news services: The Chicago Daily News, the New York Times, the New York Herald Tribune, the Christian <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Science<\/a> Monitor, the Chicago Tribune, and the Philadelphia Evening Ledger. The group of reporters who covered the international beat were bold, glamorous, and rather fearless as they headed overseas to cover the fall of monarchies and the rise of dictators and political movements, getting a front row seat to world history as it unfolded.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"743\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/dorothy-time-magazine.jpg?w=743\" alt=\"Dorothy Thompson made the case to her editors to send her to Vienna in 1920, the former Habsburg empire reeling after the loss of most of its territory and people.\" class=\"wp-image-21816450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/dorothy-time-magazine.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1115 1114w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/dorothy-time-magazine.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=743 743w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/dorothy-time-magazine.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=372 371w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/dorothy-time-magazine.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 743px) 100vw, 743px\"\/><figcaption>Reporter Dorothy Thompson made the case to her editors to send her to Vienna in 1920, when the former Habsburg empire was still reeling from the loss of much of its territory after World War I. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Time Magazine<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/dorothy-thompson.jpg?w=682\" alt=\"\u201cIf they tell you you \u2018write like a man,\u2019 Dorothy would later tell a group of women reporters, \u2018don\u2019t take it as a compliment.\" class=\"wp-image-21816500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/dorothy-thompson.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1023 1023w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/dorothy-thompson.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=682 682w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/dorothy-thompson.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=341 341w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/dorothy-thompson.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\"\/><figcaption>Dorothy Thompson once told a room full of women reporters, \u201cIf they tell you you \u2018write like a man\u2019 don\u2019t take it as a compliment.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>These reporters, including John Gunther, H. R. Knickerbocker, Vincent Sheean, and Dorothy Thompson, covered the decade in between world wars as the world fell apart in the wake of World War I and reassembled itself, only to come apart again.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dorothy Thompson made the case to her editors to send her to Vienna in 1920, the former Habsburg empire reeling after the loss of most of its territory and people. Thompson had a hunch that the \u201cproblems of east-central Europe \u2014 nationalist grievances combined with economic dislocation \u2014 were storing up trouble for the future.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Vienna beat included Albania, Bulgaria, Czech, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, Greece and Turkey. Knowing the American obsession with royalty, she wrote about eligible Romanian dukes and \u201cthreadbare Russian princesses driving taxis.\u201d She would stop at little to land a story, and once snuck into Esterhazy Castle dressed as a Red Cross nurse there to attend to a pregnant former Empress during an unsuccessful coup attempt. She would interview Ataturk, Trotsky, Hitler, and once borrowed money from Sigmund Freud in order to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a> to Poland to cover Marshal Pilsudski\u2019s seizure of power.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/knick-heinrich-bruning.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Checker Knick talks to German Chancellor Heinrich Br\u00fcning at the Foreign Press Ball, 1932.\" class=\"wp-image-21843471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/knick-heinrich-bruning.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/knick-heinrich-bruning.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/knick-heinrich-bruning.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>A reporter talks to German Chancellor Heinrich Br\u00fcning at the Foreign Press Ball, 1932.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/deborah-cohen.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Author Deborah Cohen\" class=\"wp-image-21816490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/deborah-cohen.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/deborah-cohen.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/deborah-cohen.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Deborah Cohen wrote \u201cLast Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War.\u201d<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Becca Heuer<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIf they tell you you \u2018write like a man,\u2019 Dorothy would later tell a group of women reporters, \u2018don\u2019t take it as a compliment. 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