[Paul Anderson papers: foreign correspondency]

The file contains four short surveys titled as the 'Impression of modern Turkey', 'Peasants and politics', 'After three years of German fascism' and 'Underground Germany'. All reports are written by Paul Anderson, who was a foreign correspondent. After Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in 1933, Paul Anderson went to Great Britain and worked for the channel "European Revolution" and later for 'The Observer'. Under the pseudonym Peter Peterson he published several reports as a political commentator. In his reports he is explaining the situation in several countries, mostly connected to the Hilter regime and its foreign policy. Or he is dirscribing, based on first hand informations, how the situation is in Germany, as he did in his report with the title 'Underground Germany'. He reports, that in the 1936 Hitler completed its third year of unchallenged rule over the German people. All anti-Fascist movements have been distroyed or are remaining now completely in the dark. His conclusion is that no underground movement will ever gain sufficient strength out of its own efforts in order to be able to overthrow the most powerful state machinery the modern world has seen. In 1936 not only Germany's own political and social life have changed from top to bottom, as Anderson argues, but even more its position and weight in world affairs. He discribes Germany as it is seen by people living in other countries and as it is in reality, 'a life which has become an endless succession of compulsion'. The other articles discribe the situation in modern Turkey in 1937. How it made its transition into a modern 'western state' and that the country is enjoying a stability which is not likely to be shaken. The dangers that may one day threaten Turkey's progress are the dangers of war, as its the time of unstable foreign policy.