in 1928. After graduation he went to Russia on a traveling scholarship. In the foreword to
Report on Russia (1945), he wrote of that experience: "I lived in the Ukraine with a Russian family for nearly a year and learned to speak the language with reasonable fluency. Since then I have made many visits, and always with the aim of keeping abreast of developments, collecting
facts, and then attempting to interpret them in the light of Russian history, Russian temperament, Russian aspirations and Soviet politics." In 1931 his first book,
A Student in Russia, based on his travels from 1928 to 1929, was published. In 1929 he took a job on the staff of the
Economist. He moved to the
London News Chronicle, a daily, in 1933 and worked as reporter, editorial writer, and foreign correspondent. In 1937 his book
Russia--with Open Eyes was released.
Mending Minds: The Truth about Our Mental Hospitals, his study of the mental health system in Great Britain, was published in 1938. The
London News Chronicle assigned him to Moscow as special correspondent from 1942 to 1945, where he also did radio broadcasts for the BBC, reporting, as he said in the foreword to
Report to Russia, "only nice things.
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