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Despatches on dictators: US reporters in 1930s Europe

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Deborah Cohen discusses a close-knit group of American foreign correspondents who reported on the tumult of interwar Europe in the 1920s and 1930s. She talks to Elinor Evans about how they dispatched breaking news back to the US, becoming some of the most famous names of the day in the process. (Ad) Deborah Cohen is the author of Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War (William Collins, 2022). Buy it now from Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Last-Call-Hotel-Imperial-Generation-ebook/dp/B08F9CBLR9/?tag=bbchistory045-21&ascsubtag=historyextra-social-histboty Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Just Between Us, the podcast with all of the answers, some of the time.

0:05.0

A bit of a different thing going on this week.

0:07.3

You've been immature and you've lied.

0:10.3

And now you're trying to turn it on me and manipulate me and gaslight me.

0:13.9

I was trying to manipulate you.

0:15.7

Diana, you would be chucking their clothes out of the window.

0:18.1

I know, I'd be like, are you joking?

0:20.6

I don't know.

0:21.7

I guess you'd have to ask.

0:23.5

Someone that has sex.

0:24.2

Someone that has sex.

0:26.3

And remember, it's just between us.

0:30.3

Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine and BBC History Reveal.

1:01.5

I'm Ellie Cawthorne, as politics became increasingly tumultuous and power shifted in interwar Europe.

1:04.8

How did news of what was happening there reach Americans?

1:09.7

Well, the chances are it arrived through one of four foreign correspondents, who were featured in a new book by Deborah Cohen,

1:13.0

called Last Call at the Hotel Imperial.

1:16.4

These journalists rushed across Europe in the 1920s and 30s,

1:21.0

gaining audiences with deposed royals and rising dictators,

1:24.9

and in the process, they became some of the most famous names of their day.

1:29.6

Eleanor Evans spoke to Deborah to find out more about this close-knit band of American reporters.

1:36.1

So we're talking today about your latest book, Last Call at the Hotel Imperial,

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