Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges.

His first cruise was aboard the aircraft carrier USS Cabot. During the tiff he admitted that his heart was with the infantrymen in Europe but he persevered to report on the Navy's efforts during the invasion of Okinawa. C.

His travel articles about the out-of-the-way places he visited and the people who lived there were written in a folksy style much like a personal letter to a friend; many were collected in Home Country (1947). By the war he enjoyed a following in some 300 newspapers and was among the best-known American war correspondents in Europe.