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By then, too, a new kind of reporting, by able newsmen who knew how to look hard at politics and finance, was coming from Europe. Brother Edgar's Germany Puts the Clock Back was one of the first to cry alarm over Hitler. In 1934, the late Frank Knox brought Paul Mowrer back to Chicago, to be editor of the News. "I was tired of Europe," he wrote, "tired of watching French and British mistakes, and the Germans getting ready for war." There his autobiography ends.
He left the News when Publisher Frank Knox died. Now back in the Mowrer apartment in Paris' genteelly shoddy Invalides district, Paul Scott Mowrer is eating poorly, like the French, but happy to be back. Son Richard, also a Postman,* sometimes sends coffee and canned groceries from the States. Then Paul and his wife Hadley (once the first wife of Ernest Hemingway) entertain the opposition: Paris Herald Editor Geoffrey Parsons Jr., who argues with Zenobie, the cook, about De Gaulle, but never about cooking.
*Fourth of the writing Mowrers: Edgar's wife Lilian (Journalist's Wife, Arrest and Exile, Rip Tide of Aggression).