George Seldes
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Born in New Jersey, Seldes is a self-educated man who began as a cub reporter in Pittsburgh when he was only 19 years old. He moved to London shortly after the Great War began and, when the United States entered the fray a year later, served as a war correspondant for one of the major newspaper syndicates. He moved all over Europe in those years and after the war ended conducted a series of interivews with generals and heads of state, including one with Lenin in 1922 that led to his expulsion from the Soviet Union a year later.
Seldes first met our Intrepid Explorers while they were riding the Orient Express to Vienna. Seldes was en route to Italy to write about Mussolini and the rise of fascism.
