10 Facts About Edgar Mowrer

1.

Edgar Ansel Mowrer was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and writer best known for his writings on international events.

FactSnippet No. 1,262,859
2.

Edgar Mowrer remained a correspondent in Europe throughout the 1920s and 1930s, living in Rome for eight years until 1923, before moving to Berlin.

FactSnippet No. 1,262,860
3.

In 1933, Edgar Mowrer won the Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence for his reporting on the rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany, and was named president of the Berlin Foreign Press Association.

FactSnippet No. 1,262,861
4.

Edgar Mowrer, who did not want to leave Germany, agreed to leave before covering the annual Nazi Party spectacle in Nuremberg set to begin 1 September 1933.

FactSnippet No. 1,262,862
5.

Edgar Mowrer visited China for a few months in 1938 to gather material for his book The Dragon Wakes.

FactSnippet No. 1,262,863
6.

Edgar Mowrer expressed pessimism about the American love of the status quo and warned that the United States must choose between “world leadership and rapid decline.

FactSnippet No. 1,262,864
7.

Edgar Mowrer maintained that the United Nations, which he described as “an unfinished bridge leading nowhere, ” was inadequate to undertake this task.

FactSnippet No. 1,262,865
8.

Program for the Times of Crisis Ahead, Edgar Mowrer urged the United States to take the lead in forming a “peace coalition” and the ultimate federation of non-Communist countries, with the aim of weakening the “expansionist bloc.

FactSnippet No. 1,262,866
9.

Watson noted in the Saturday Review of Literature that Edgar Mowrer's program resembled that of the United World Federalists.

FactSnippet No. 1,262,867
10.

Edgar Mowrer suggested that Soviet successes were compelling Western peoples to “pull themselves together in a real effort to survive as free men, ” and concluded that America's pioneer spirit was “still warm beneath the ashes of self-indulgence.

FactSnippet No. 1,262,868