INSIDE AFRICA.

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The Belgian Congo, no longer suffering under the reign of terror that still lives on in popular imagination, now struggles to develop its natural resources, in what was then at least a rich but relatively underpopulated land. White immigration is discouraged to prevent the racial tensions suffered by the British colonies, and white settlers get as much political rights as natives, which is to say none. "The European community in the Congo...must be the largest group of white people totally devoid of voting power anywhere in the free world" In reply to his asking a group of Philadelphians “what, if anything, descendants of Benjamin Franklin might be doing in Philadelphia these days,” “one answer was (I report it literally): ‘We consider Mr. Franklin to have been of a somewhat shady family.’”

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Cuthbertson, Ken (October 2002). Inside: The Biography of John Gunther. pp.243–244. ISBN 9780759232884. Gunther was born in Chicago in 1901, went to the University of Chicago and then on to The Chicago Daily News, where in 1924 he scored with an eyewitness report on the Teapot Dome — not the tremendous scandal but the actual place (in Wyoming), to which no previous journalist had bothered to go. (“Teapot Dome has no resemblance whatever to a teapot or a dome.”) By the next year he was in London for The Daily News, and soon was darting around Europe on missions to Berlin, Moscow, Rome, Paris, Poland, Spain, the Balkans and Scandinavia, before being given the Vienna bureau. It was as if he had been in training for “Inside Europe.”

John J. Gunther, About the Author, Biography at Harper Collins Publishers, Accessed 22 October 2012. Johnny with his mother after his brain-cancer diagnosis, which he received in the spring of 1946 (Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America / Harvard University) a b "Gunther, Frances Fineman. Papers, 1915-1963: A Finding Aid". Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America. Harvard University Library/ Radcliffe College. September 1991. Archived from the original on July 3, 2018 . Retrieved December 2, 2012. According to Michael Bloch, Gunther enjoyed a same-sex relationship in the 1930s in Vienna with the future Leader of the British Labour Party, Hugh Gaitskell. [7]Gunther was born in 1901 in the Lakeview district of Chicago and grew up on the North Side of the city. He was the first child of a German-American family: his father was Eugene Guenther, a traveling salesman; his mother Lizette Schoeninger Guenther. [1] Gunther started to plan Inside U.S.A. as early as 1936, when his idea was to create a two-part book, with the first part focused on the power structure of Washington, DC, and the second part a "snapshot" of the entirety of the United States. [3] He did not begin serious work on the project until 1944, by which time his plan was to write about America from the perspective of an outsider. After living outside the country for more than a decade, he considered himself to have become an outsider. He joked that he was "writing for the man from Mars" and that he also was from Mars. [4] [5] In November 1944, after studying U.S. statistics, signing a book contract with a publisher and a second contract under which Reader's Digest would publish excerpts while he was still writing, [6] and sending a list of questions and interview requests to the governor of every state, [7] [8] he set out to tour the country and interview its prominent citizens, including business leaders, politicians, writers, and academics. [4] Rather than a few sentences bout each, I will paraphrase what Gunther says about each of the colonial powers in place in Africa at the time of writing: Gunther begins his discovery of America in California — “the most spectacular and most diversified American state, California so ripe, golden, yeasty, churning in flux. … at once demented and very sane, adolescent and mature” — and he proceeds around the country, state by state, until he arrives in Arizona, next door to where he began. Sometimes he devotes an entire chapter to a single person — the perpetual presidential candidate-to-be Harold Stassen; the great industrialist Henry Kaiser; New York’s colorful (to say the least) Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, who is probably best remembered for having, during a strike of newspaper deliverers, read “the funnies” aloud on the radio so as not to disappoint the city’s kids. Mr. Gunther's admirers were grateful for his grasp of sheer scope, the enthusiasm apparent in his reporting and his gift for popularizing remote places by describing them bluntly and with feeling. By noting a seem ingly small detail, he could bring a place, a people, into sharp focus for his readers.

Impatient to get to Europe, where, he believed, the best American writing was being done, Mr. Gunther in 1922 in structed the university to mail him his diploma and Phi Beta Kappa key and, several weeks before commencement, set out on the first of his scores of trips abroad. In recounting his travels, Marco Polo tells of running into a gigantic people in Zanzibar. Concerning them, he wrote: The books that made Gunther famous in his time were the "Inside" series of continental surveys. For each book, Gunther traveled extensively through the area the book covered, interviewed political, social, and business leaders; talked with average people; reviewed area statistics; and then wrote a lengthy overview of what he had learned and how he interpreted it. The Gunthers had two children: Judy, who died in 1929 before the age of 1, and John Jr. (Johnny), who was born in 1929 and died in 1947 of a brain tumor. The Gunthers divorced in 1944. [3] No other country, Gunther says, “could have headlines like WAR WITH JAPAN PERILS WORLD SERIES … or the sign on the Success Cafe in Butte in 1932, EAT HERE OR I’LL VOTE FOR HOOVER, or another headline, one from a New York tabloid about a woman soon to be electrocuted, SHE’LL BURN, SIZZLE, FRY!”Gunther’s unpublishable book was a memoir: an account of the death, in 1947, of his 17-year-old son, Johnny, from a brain tumor. Gunther had started writing while the experience of Johnny’s illness was still raw, finishing the book in a few weeks, six months after his son’s death. He’d set out with the idea of a privately circulated memoir, the sort of volume of remembrances printed in a few hundred copies that parents of soldiers killed in action sent to friends and relations. But as he finished the manuscript, he began to think it should be published for a wider audience.

A novel, “The Indian Sign,” is scheduled for publication by Harper & Row June 17. Four other published fiction works were unsuccesful. Portugal - Portuguese policy seems to consist of keeping them from any modern advancements, and retaining slave labour. The agents provocateurs of this new culture of openness were people born, like Gunther and the AA co-founder Bill Wilson, in the couple of decades around the turn of the 20th century. They were members of the so-called Lost Generation, who, in the words of F. Scott Fitzgerald (a banner member of the club), had “grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken.” Many of them had lived for a spell in Europe, either as soldiers or as expatriates. Collectively, this generation went on to produce a landmark tell-all book about alcoholism and institutionalization (William Seabrook’s Asylum) and the frankest account of a marriage ever published (Vincent Sheean’s Dorothy and Red ), as well as Gunther’s pioneering Death Be Not Proud.Cuthbertson, Ken (October 2002). Inside: The Biography of John Gunther. pp.247–256. ISBN 9780759232884. For more than 30 years, Mr. Gunther was looked to by stay‐at‐home public for his live ly, informed descriptions of the world at large. He traveled more miles, crossed more bor ders, interviewed more states men, wrote more books and sold more copies than any other single journalist of his time. At least 15 of his books were translated into more than 90 languages. the bubbling, blazing days of American foreign correspondence in Europe. ... Most of us traveled steadily, met constantly, exchanged information, caroused, took in each other's washing, and, even when most fiercely competitive, were devoted friends. ... We were scavengers, buzzards, out to get the news, no matter whose wings got clipped. [6]