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(Continued from page 81) to Berlin for the New York Sun. Then he returned to America to take a job on the Wall Street Journal in the Foreign Department. "Because," as he explains, "you cannot understand Europe unless you understand her economic structure."
In 1935 he came back to America to write a book about something nobody seemed to think was terribly important — fascism. It was called "Forerunners of American Fascism," and it called the turn again, before the Dies Committee even knew what the Fascist movement in America was all about. Swing wrote for The Nation, was one of its editors, but was fired, as he says with a smile, "Because I wasn't radical enough."
Since then, he has been traveling back and forth between America and Europe, writing for newspapers and magazines and broadcasting.
During this last crisis, Swing has been working from 18 to 20 hours a day, the heaviest part of his duties coming at night. He wrote one of his best talks during this time in less than an hour.
"Something inside me just kept pounding the typewriter," he smiles. "Of late, the pace hasn't been so terrific, but the hours are almost as long. I'm turning into a night person."
Swing is married and has three children. His wife was once a very important leader in the Women's Suffrage movement. When she married Swing, she agreed to take his last name if he would take her maiden name, Gram, as his.
THE Swings have a home in Trum' bull, Connecticut, but Raymond Gram Swing hasn't seen much of it lately. He's been staying at his apartment in New York, just a few minutes on the lope from the MBS studios. If you walk that distance with Swing, you are sure to become involved in a swap of opinions on some political question and you may be just as sure that your opinions will come in a poor second.
When Swing isn't at work, he's usually playing the piano in what is called "the Swings' version of classical music." His son plays the cello and his daughter the violin. Swing's daughter thinks his greatest accomplishment is a sonata for violin, written especially for her. He wants to start work on another one.
Next to the job he is now doing, Raymond Gram Swing would rather be analyzing America for Americans. He thinks there is a great need for just that. And after talking to Swing, so do we.
"As to our own entanglements in this war," Mr. Swing states, "we are in a very ticklish position, but we must realize that we are ultimately in the same position as every other democracy in the world. Sooner or later, in some way or other, we will have to find some way of permanently blocking facist aggression against the democracies. If we don't, our fate will be the same as the other democracies in this world."
But right now, when most men his age are content to sit back and talk about the way things were, Raymond Gram Swing is just reaching the peak of his life, bringing the light of his observations in the past into sharp focus on the crisis of today. He's really needed. And that's the finest tribute he can be paid.
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