Herbert Elliston

HERBERT ELLISTON served as the editor of the Washington Post from 1940 to 1953, and during those critical years achieved what every editor dreams of doing: he made his paper widely read and greatly trusted. On a foreign assignment in 1939 he was at the ringside when Soviet Russia invaded Finland, and his book, Finland Fights, was an early warning of the aggressive Russian spirit. In the dangerous years, his editorials proved again and again to be farsighted and accurate.

As editor of the Washington Post since 1940, HERBERT ELLISTON has earned the confidence and respect of official If Washington. He made his early reputation in the Far East, where he served as foreign correspondent for the Manchester Guardian and the New York Herald. Then he returned to America to be the assistant director of research for the Council on Foreign Relations. He subsequently joined the staff of the Christian Science Monitor and for two years served as its financial editor and columnist.