Relman George Morin was an American journalist who spent most of his career writing for the Associated Press, serving as bureau chief of its offices in Tokyo, Paris, Washington, DC, and New York.
24 Facts About Relman Morin
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Relman Morin reported from the European front during World War II and was present at the signing of the peace treaty between the Allies and Germany.
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Relman Morin was a war correspondent during the Korean War.
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Relman Morin won the Pulitzer Prize twice, once for his Korean War reportage and once for his reportage on the Little Rock school integration crisis in 1957.
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Relman Morin was born in Freeport, Illinois, and raised in Los Angeles, California.
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Relman Morin graduated from a Los Angeles high school in 1925, then went on to study at Pomona College.
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Relman Morin began his journalism career by working as an office boy and part-time sports reporter for the Los Angeles Times while in high school and college.
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Relman Morin then went to study in China, first at Lignan University in Canton, where he was a "special student," then at Yenching University in Peking.
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Relman Morin joined the Associated Press in 1934, working in its Los Angeles bureau.
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Relman Morin would remain with the AP for almost 40 years, serving as Los Angeles editor, Tokyo bureau chief, Far East correspondent, war correspondent ; and bureau chief in Paris and Washington, DC.
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Relman Morin was in Mongolia in 1939 when the Russians defeated the Japanese in a border clash there.
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Relman Morin spent six months in Java during the protracted economic negotiations between Japan and the Netherlands Indies.
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Relman Morin was present to cover the Japanese occupations of both Thailand and French Indo-China.
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Relman Morin considered the Dutch Empire to be more "wise and kindly" than others, but he was "no apologist for empire," wrote Orville Prescott.
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Relman Morin witnessed the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg on June 19,1953.
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Relman Morin had a heart attack that sidelined him for several months in 1955.
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Relman Morin wrote Circuit of Conquest about his travels in Asia and his detention by the Japanese.
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About the places where he sojourned only briefly Mr Relman Morin writes with the verve, color and sharp eye for dramatic detail of the best kind of personal travel literature.
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Relman Morin wrote East Wind Rising: A Long View of the Pacific Crisis, A Reporter Reports ; Churchill: Portrait of Greatness, Assassination: The Death of President John F Kennedy, Dwight D Eisenhower: A Gauge of Greatness, and The Associated Press Story of Election 1968.
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In 1951, Relman Morin won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for his coverage of the Korean War.
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Relman Morin shared it with several other journalists for the AP, Chicago Daily News, and New York Herald Tribune who had reported from Korea.
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Relman Morin twice won the George Polk Award in Journalism.
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Relman Morin had a daughter, Mary Frances Morin Sasanoff, from his first marriage to Florence Pine.
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Relman Morin's second wife, Dorothy Wright Liebes, was a textile designer.