Pierre van Paassen was a Dutch-Canadian-American journalist, writer, and Unitarian minister. He served with the Canadian army in France in World War I as an infantryman and sapper. He gained fame r...показать большеPierre van Paassen was a Dutch-Canadian-American journalist, writer, and Unitarian minister. He served with the Canadian army in France in World War I as an infantryman and sapper. He gained fame reporting on the conflicts among Arabs, British, Jews and French in the Middle East, as well as on the on-going African slave trade and colonial problems in North Africa and the Horn of Africa. He reported on Benito Mussolini's Italo-Ethiopian War, the Spanish Civil War and other European and colonial conflicts.показать меньше