Raymond Swing

An American correspondent who was given his first assignment to Europe in 1913, and with brief interludes stayed on the beat in Geneva, Paris, Berlin, and London for twenty-two years thereafter. RAYMOND SWING brought to his reporting a sober power of analysis, unsparing to the point of being pessimistic, the courage to face facts and neigh the spirit, and that decisiveness which made his broadcasts of pre-eminent interest to British and American listeners during the years of crisis.

» Peace was in the balance when Litvinov met the American Ambassador, Norman Davis, at the Brussels Conference. War could have been averted by an agreement for collective action. What was the trouble?

As told to Raymond Swing