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So you didn't come back from your travels in Europe with an overwhelming desire to write about European situations?

No, I can't truthfully say that I did. No, I didn't. In fact, I came back from my travels in Europe with the overwhelming desire to stay in America for a good long time because I had been abroad a lot, not only for the two years at Oxford, which I loved and which I absolutely consider one of the highlights of my life, but I was very anxious to reestablish roots in the United States and was quite determined not to go back to Europe for a long time and didn't go back from '36 on until I went back in uniform.

You stayed at Trenton for just a year.

Just a year.

Then you went with the Washington Post.

Yes. The Trenton experience was very good. You know you ask about international journalism. It's pretty hard to figure out how in the newspaper business you're going to get into international journalism. I remember a story that illustrates this point. I knew quite well a chap, Bob Okin, in the Associated Press bureau in Trenton at that time and he was very anxious to be sent by the AP to Russia, which in those days was a little more unusual than it is today of course. And he even knew some Russian and had been studying it. I think he was partially of Russian descent in fact. And the AP was paying no attention to