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movement of the late 1800s. Janos was a wealthy industrialist who owned newspapers in Vienna and
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about interwar Vienna gives an insider's view of the band of journalists and the momentous events they covered. The book includes lightly fictionalized versions of
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liked his occasional letters from Middle Europe, asked for cables, soon hired the shy, whip-smart, "relentlessly honest" little man as a fulltime correspondent. Thereby the
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Gouverneur, Fabienne. "The Fodor-Fulbright Correspondence, Congress, and Public Diplomacy 1952-53." Donau-Institut Working Paper No. 22, 2013. ISSN 2063-8191. Online at
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