Dorothy Thompson

Jul 9, 1893 - Jan 30, 1961

Dorothy Celene Thompson was an American journalist and radio broadcaster. She was the first American journalist to be expelled from Nazi Germany in 1934 and was one of the few women news commentators on radio during the 1930s. Thompson is regarded by some as the "First Lady of American Journalism" and was recognized by Time magazine in 1939 as equal in influence to Eleanor Roosevelt.
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“Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.”

Dorothy Thompson
Jul 9, 1893 - Jan 30, 1961

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