Dorothy Thompson

Chapter 16.

Dorothy Thompson, played by Katherine Hepburn and Lauren Bacall.

America's most famous female journalist at the time also attempted valiantly but unsuccessfully to tell Americans about Palestinian refugees.

According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, Dorothy Thompson was one of the most famous journalists of the 20th century.

Thompson's column was in newspapers all over the country and her radio program listened to by tens of millions of Americans.

She had been married to one of America's most famous novelists, graced the cover of Time magazine, been profiled by America's top magazines, and was so well known that Woman of the Year, a Hollywood...

But if you want to understand true sovereignty, you have to look past the political theater and examine the psychological frequency of conflict.

The brilliant American journalist Dorothy Thompson interviewed Adolf Hitler in 1932, and was the first American journalist to be expelled from Nazi Germany.

She wisely said, Peace is not the mere absence of war.

It is a positive condition of justice.

But there was a broader legacy, um, internationally, um, of the-- not just the final report, but of the, uh, the coverage of the, the commission in, uh, from February through to June of 1946.

Uh, the American journalist Dorothy Thompson wrote a, an interesting piece, um, uh, dealing with, uh, Winston Churchill's, uh, Missouri speech of, um, March the fifth, 1946, his, uh, Iron Curtain speech.

And she said, um, the American audience, not quite ready for what Churchill had to say.

They were still tied to the sort of image of the Soviet Union as a wartime ally, couldn't quite believe that they were-- that, that, that Moscow was as evil as, uh, Churchill was portraying it.

But there was a broader legacy, um, internationally, um, of the, not just the final report, but of the, uh, the coverage of the, the commission in, uh, from February through to June of 1946.

Uh, the American journalist Dorothy Thompson wrote a, an interesting piece, um, uh, dealing with, uh, Winston Churchill's, uh, Missouri speech of, um, March the 5th, 1946, his, uh, Iron Curtain speech.

And she said, um, "The American audience, not quite ready for what Churchill had to say, they were still tied to the sort of image of the Soviet Union as a wartime ally, couldn't quite believe that they were, that, that Moscow was as evil as, uh, Churchill was portraying it." Um, George Keenan's long telegram of February, uh, nineteen forty-six in which he told the State Department that they better up their game with the Soviet Union and, and devise some strategies to, uh, corral, uh, prevent the expansion of Soviet power.

And of course, this became the Truman Doctrine eventually.

But there was a broader legacy internationally of not just the final report, but of the coverage of the commission from February through to June of 1946.

The American journalist Dorothy Thompson wrote an interesting piece dealing with Winston Churchill's Missouri speech of March the 5th, 1946, his Iron Curtain speech.

And she said, the American audience not quite ready for what Churchill had to say.

They were still tied to the sort of image of the Soviet Union as a wartime ally.