Gregory Mason: world traveler, war correspondent, special investigator for the "Outlook"

              Greqory Mason

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 WORLD TRAVELER-WAR CORRESPONDENT SPECIAL INVESTIGATOR FOR THE 
Outlook




Gregory Mason

Editorial Investigator For The Outlook



A Star Reporter's 
Beat



England


France


Belgium


Russia


China


Japan


Korea


Manchuria


Poland


Roumania


Italy


Greece


Armenia


Germany


Austria


Switzerland


Africa


Persia


Turkey


Arabia


Mexico


Syria


Siam


Egypt


Czecho-Slovakia


Norway


Sweden





G
REGORY MASON
, as special editorial writer for The Outlook magazine, spent nearly three years studying local and international problems in far away corners of the earth.  His 
beat
 was literally the globe for he 
covered
 twenty-seven countries in as many months.




Prior to this memorable trip he had spent several months studying conditions in Mexico, as a result of which he was called into consultation by high officials of the state department, to advise in moulding a policy toward Mexico.




The United States government thus paid glowing tribute to the observational powers and judgment of this brilliant journalist.




Surely no one is better qualified to discuss the great national and international problems of the day.  Never has there been a time when the problems of the world were more closely linked with our own problems than this very minute.  No other publicist has had such opportunity for specialization in world problems.  For several years he has been the editorial investigator and war correspondent for The Outlook.  He is equipped in every way to write about, and discuss the momentous issues of the day.




Gregory Mason is a brilliant speaker, a master in the word painting of his interesting observations.





First Foresaw Russian Revolt



In the early days of the war he visited Russia.  His articles in The Outlook at that time first called attention to the menace of revolution in the land of the Czar.  When the crash came Mr. Mason was again sent to Russia, crossing on the same ship that carried Leon Trotzky the Bolshevik leader.  His account of bolshevist Russia answers the questions you have asked elsewhere in vain, and it is fascinating for its intimate and human quality.




From Russia Gregory Mason followed the thread of propaganda and sinister intrigue into China and Japan.  Then he went to England by way of South Africa.






An Intimate World View



Famous World Traveler Journalist and War Correspondent



He hunted U-boats in the submarines and balloons through special privilege of Admiral Sims.  He was with the Advance Guard of Yanks in the Argonne.




After the signing of the armistice Mason was the first American correspondent to cross the Rhine.  Altogether he made three trips into Germany, in one of which he was able to give the world the first news of the German revolution by flying from Berlin to Munich in a German war plane.  He then visited practically all over Europe, personally meeting and interviewing the Chancellor of Austria, the President of Czecho-Slovakia and the Premiers of Greece, Roumania and Jugo-Slavia.




Gregory Mason is not a reporter in the ordinary sense of the war correspondent.  He is an editorial investigator on the staff of one of the country's leading magazines.  He has peculiar ability as an observer and student of conditions in other countries.





Mr. Mason's Lectures



The Possum and the Dinosaur



The possum lived in the mesozoic age and outlived the dinosaur because he was more economical and more adaptable to changing conditions.  This is a clear world warning to the white race to thrust back the danger of being supplanted by the yellow race.  The secret lies in making our white civilization more adaptable to changing conditions and in exercising rigid economy.  The high cost of living is not a superficial problem.  You can not meet it by passing laws.  In this great lecture Mr. Mason goes straight to fundamentals and points out what is basically wrong in our civilization, not in an iconoclastic, but rather a cheerful, constructive way.



The New Near East



The immediate cause of the war was the conflict of Slavic and Teutonic ambitions in the Balkans.  The settlements made in that part of the world by the Peace Conference are not all that might be desired from the point of view of world peace.  What do you know about the friction between the Czecho-Slovaks and the Poles, between the Roumanians and the Hungarians, between the Italians and the Jugo-Slavs, et cetera?  Why is it that the American Commissioners at Constantinople are in favor of having the United States take a mandate for Turkey and Armenia together but are opposed to having us take a mandate for either separately?  Why do many missionaries take an opposite view?



The New Far East



The greatest danger of another world war lies in the possible formation of a great German-Russian-Japanese alliance, which many experts believe would eventually be too strong for the group of western Powers, America, Britain, France.  Mr. Mason followed the trail of German intrigue throughout the Far East.  In Japan he is known as 
the Cabinet Breaker.
  His interview with the then Premier, Count Terauchi, published in The Outlook, caused the downfall of the Terauchi Ministry and a political sensation in the Far East.  Mr. Mason says that 
America and Germany are rival suitors for the hand of Japan.
  He shows how we may keep the friendly support of the Japanese in international matters without abandoning our traditional attitude of friendship toward China.



How to Save Mexico



Wars may come and Wars may go but the Mexican problem remains.  Mr. Mason has been to Mexico three times for The Outlook and is familiar with conditions from Chihuahua to Yucatan.  He knew intimately the outstanding leaders, Carranza, Villa, Obregon, Gonzales, etc.  His articles on Mexico and his interviews with Carranza and Villa have attracted much attention.  This lecture combines a graphic picture of present conditions in Mexico with the forceful exposition of a program to save Mexico from the anarchy and dissolution which threaten to ruin her.





GREGORY MASON



Feature Writer For The Outlook Magazine - - -





The 
Outlook

AN ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY JOURNAL OF CURRE NT EVENTS

JAPAN IN A CHANGING WORLD




AN AUTHORIZED INTERVIEW WITH FIELD MARSHAL PRINCE ARITOMO YAMAGATA




BY GREGORY MASON STAFF CORRESPONDENT OF THE OUTLOOK




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FIELD MARSHAL PRINCE ARITOMO YAMAGATA



WEDNESDAY SEPT 3, 1919 PRICE: TEN CENTS A COPY FOUR DOLLARS A YEAR 381 FOURTH AVENUE, NEW YORK




Some Personal and Press Comment



We want to thank you Mr. Mason for your contribution to the success we have made.  Our patrons have enjoyed you very much.  You have given them some real stuff.
—
E. M. Avery, President, Standard Chautauqua System.




May I take this occasion to express to you our deep appreciation of your splendid address.  I believe you realize how much the audience enjoyed your lecture.  It was one of the best of the year.
—
Frances T. Hayes, Sec'y, City Club, Cleveland.




Gregory Mason, war correspondent of The Outlook, was the speaker last evening.  His address on The Far East was a most interesting one, and was listened to with close attention by a large audience.—


Portland (Me) Daily Express.




Mr. Mason is a gifted and charming speaker, a noted observer and writer.
—
Ernest C. McGueen, Sec'y, Fourth Presbyterian Church Brotherhood, New York.




It was a most interesting talk, one of the best we ever heard.  It made the evening a complete success.
—
Dr. Bruno Bierbauer, Brooklyn, N. Y.




A trained observer, he has brought back to America many impressions, the memory of many experiences, that he has not yet put to paper, and his intimate narrative of all he saw and heard while abroad constitutes one of the most delightful contributions to public knowledge of world evidence.  He has a gift of humor and a new philosophy with which he skillfully adorns his story.—


The Eagle, Pittsfield, Mass.





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