Dorothy Thompson
Dorothy Thompson ( born July 9, 1893 in Lancaster, New York, † January 30, 1961 in Lisbon, Portugal) was an American writer and journalist, and founder of the " World Organization of Mothers of all nations " ( WOMAN ).
Life
Dorothy Thompson was the daughter of the British Methodist preacher Peter Thompson and his wife Margaret. She attended until 1911, the Lewis Institute in Chicago and studied at Syracuse University in New York and Vienna. At the time she was a passionate advocate of women's suffrage and in 1914 it acquired the academic degree of Bachelor of Art Thompson then worked for several years in New York City.
In the interwar period, Thompson was working as a freelance correspondent for the newspaper Philadelphia Public Ledger and The New York Evening Post beginning to Vienna, where she and John Gunther GER Gedye met, and in 1924 to Berlin, where she witnessed the rise of the National Socialist German Workers' Party first hand. Within a short time they became acquainted with the most famous artists of the city, including Odon von Horvath, Thomas Mann, Bertolt Brecht, Stefan Zweig and Fritz Kortner. With Carl Zuck Mayer joined them soon a close friendship. In the spring of 1932, an interview took place between Adolf Hitler and Thompson at the Hotel Kaiserhof in Berlin, which proved difficult because Hitler continually was speaking as if he were on a rally. In Thompson wrote newspaper articles; they also mentioned the interview in her book " I saw Hitler" ( "I saw Hitler", 1932). Like many other contemporaries, they underestimated the danger of the future dictator. 1933 Dorothy Thompson lived together with the sculptor and writer Christa Winsloe. On August 25, 1934 Dorothy Thompson was forced to leave Germany within 24 hours. Hitler had expelled them in a fit of rage because of the interviews from 1932. Thompson was the first of the foreign correspondents in Berlin, who had to go. Christa Winsloe accompanied them to the United States.
Between 1936 and 1941 Thompson had her own column On the Record for the New York Herald Tribune. An article by her in which she expressed her disgust and their worries about the racial theories and hate campaigns against religions and forms of government in 1936 went around the world. So she made her daily quota, had in 1938 three secretaries working for them. At the time of World War II Thompson fought with great zeal against fascism. Back then you could read their posts in about 150 newspapers almost daily. In public speeches and radio warned them against Hitler. Friendship with Eleanor Roosevelt, she made her considerable influence in the naturalization German emigrants like Fritz Kortner, Thomas Mann and Carl Zuckmayer law.
In 1946, Dorothy Thompson gave a speech on behalf of all women and mothers of the world before the Security Council of the United Nations. She accused the leaders of Harry S. Truman, Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin, it was a lie when they said to the women, their husbands and sons had died that the world would find peace for eternity. The speech before the UN Security Council was seen as the birth of the World Organization of Mothers of all Nations ( Abbr: WOMAN ), which was founded in the same year, at the suggestion of Dorothy Thompson in New York. The members try to allay the suspicions about ideological and political borders through personal meetings and discussions and to contribute to international understanding.
On January 31, 1961 Dorothy Thompson died at the age of 66 years in Lisbon from heart failure. There she had visited her son Michael family.
Marriages
From 1923 to 1927, Dorothy Thompson was with the Hungarian journalist Joseph Bard ( 1894-1961 ) married 1928 to 1942 with the writer Sinclair Lewis. From this marriage was born 1930, son of Michael emerged. In 1943 she married the Czech painter and sculptor Maxim head.