City Hall Politics in Italy
EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER began his adventurous career as a foreign correspondent on the western front in 1914, little more than a year after his graduation from the University of Michigan. He scored several scoops in Flanders, was twice arrested for espionage, and in 1915 was shifted to Italy, a country of which he now possesses expert knowledge. He left Rome in 1922 when he no longer found it possible to work under Fascist censorship. He covered the last days of the Weimar Republic and in 1932 received the Pulitzer Prize for the “best correspondence from abroad.” He was the first American journalist to be expelled by Hitler, but neither dictators nor censors have been able to suppress his pertinent, penetrating, and passionate exposure of the touchy situations in Europe.