Sergeant Alexander Woollcott (1887 – 1943) wrote this article so that his New York readers would know the key roll Corporal Harold Ross (1892-1951) played as Managing Editor at the Paris offices of The Stars & Stripes. Anyone who glances at those now brittle, beige pages understands how sympathetic the The Stars & Stripes and their readers were to the many thousands of French children orphaned by the war; Woollcott makes it clear that it was Harold Ross who was behind the A.E.F. charities that brought needed relief to those urchins.
“It seems certain that no man in the A.E.F. had a greater influence on it’s thought and spirit…The men who worked with him on The Stars & Stripes considered him the salt of the earth.”
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Stars and Stripes editors 1918-1919remarkable army newspaper editorsHarold Wallace Ross Biography 1919Magazine Article Regarding the Editorship of Harold Ross 1919Old Magazine Article Concerning Harold RossCorporal Harold Ross of the Stars and Stripes 1919WW 1 French War Orphan Charity Supported by Stars and Stripes1919 Alexander Woollcott Article Regarding Harold RossHarold Ross NY Tribune article 1919reporter Alexander Woollcott NY TribuneAlexander Woollcott NY Tribune reporter 1919
