Pierre John Huss (1 May 1901 – 22 March 19

was a journalist and author, best known as a

war correspondent A war correspondent is a journalist who covers stories first-hand from a war, war zone. War correspondence stands as one of journalism's most important and impactful forms. War correspondents operate in the most conflict-ridden parts of the wor ...

during

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

. Huss was for many years chief

International News Service The International News Service (INS) was a U.S.-based news agency (newswire) founded by newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst in 1909.

(INS) correspondent in Berlin. He was part of an overseas reporting staff assembled by Edward R. Murrow in March 1938 for what was the first in what became the daily ''CBS World News Roundup'' broadcasts. He interviewed

Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until Death of Adolf Hitler, his suicide in 1945. Adolf Hitler's rise to power, He rose to power as the lea ...

multiple times during the 1930s and 1940s, and wrote ''Heil! And Farewell: The Foe We Face'' in 1942, the same year he won a National Headliner Award. Huss was president of the

United Nations Correspondents Association The United Nations Correspondents Association (U.N. Correspondents Association), or UNCA, was founded in New York City in 1948. It has over 250 members today . It presents the annual UNCA Excellence in Journalism Awards. The purpose of the awards ...

in 1962. He and George Carpozi, Jr. cowrote ''Red Spies in the UN'', published in 1965. In 1958 Huss received the Sigma Delta Chi award for general reporting for his work on a UN report of the Hungarian Revolution. Huss died of a heart attack on March 22, 1966, after collapsing in the lobby of the United Nations, where he was then a reporter for the Hearst Headline Service. He was survived by his wife Marianne and daughters Marie-Anne and Jacqueline.'Pierre Huss Dies at UN', ''Overseas Press Bulletin'', April 2, 1966, Vol 21, No. 13, p. 2.

Example of his reporting

As an INS correspondent based at the Allied Forces Headquarters in

North Africa North Africa (sometimes Northern Africa) is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region. However, it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of t ...

, Huss wrote the following in July 1943, after news of Mussolini's fall from power: :The battle spirit of Allied Forces in Sicily soared today at news of Premier Mussolini's resignation. The immediate consequences of Mussolini's fall, after 20 years of dictatorship, undoubtedly will be a nosedive in the morale of Italian fighting forces. :Everything points to the fact that Mussolini lately saw the handwriting on the wall and that, in desperation, he laid his case before Hitler last Monday uly 19after sensing the growing hostility toward him and

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on the part of the

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and

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. :But Hitler, unlike '' Il Duce'', probably will ride the storm to the bitter end, wildly spilling oceans of blood in occupied countries and even in the

Reich ( ; ) is a German word whose meaning is analogous to the English word " realm". The terms and are respectively used in German in reference to empires and kingdoms. In English usage, the term " Reich" often refers to Nazi Germany, also ca ...

itself, and kill himself rather than follow Mussolini's example and resign.

References

External links

Excerpt from "The Foe We Face" by Pierre J. Huss
(1942), from a

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website
Story of the R.A.F.'s heaviest attack on the city of Berlin
with quotes from a report filed by Huss American war correspondents 1901 births 1966 deaths 20th-century American journalists {{US-journalist-1900s-stub