The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-19
passport No. 474503,
 Shuttles Around the Globe

passport No. 47450S.
 ShuttleS Around the Globe
 Beauties passport was issued and his glo6~ -girdling adventures began in September. 1887. Before that he had represented the U. P. in Addis Abaha, His assignment originally was intended to be brief one to Japan, But events were moving rapidly in the late 1930s and Beat tie found himself being swept from country to country by their head lins-maSing impact,
 In rapid succession U. P. assign ments moved him from Tokyo to Shanghai, Hong Kong. Singapore, India, Egypt and to Berlin.
 From the German capital Beat tie followed the chain of circum- stances which led eventually to war. He went to GodeSherg with Hitler and followed. as closely as any cor respondent the frenzied comings and goingS of Britain's Prime Min ister Chamberlain. He was at Mu- nich when the pact was signed which sealed the fate of Czecho- Slovakia and recognized then the futility of such agreements with Hitler.
 From Munich on. Beattie's story is the story of every major devel- opment of the war. Passport No. 41450S carries stamps entered at Prague as Czechoslovakia knuckled under to German occupation, at Warsaw. where Beattie remained until after the Polsih government had fled. in Finland when her small army battled RuSSia'S troops in the Arctic cold, in France where he covered the so-called ''phony war from behind the supposedly im- saw France fall and reached Eng pregnable Maginot Line. Beattie land just before Dunkirk He re- turned to cover the historic evacu- ation of the B. E. F.
 Returning to Britain, Beattie again found himself in the center of action-the Battle of Britain. From the cliffs of "Hell'S Corner" on the English coast, he watched for days as brave British conveys were bat tered by the German air force. And he shared with Britain,S little men the sense of pride and hope that came as the R. A. F. gradually gained superiority and finally drove the Germans from the daytime air over Britain.
 London's Little People,
 In Freely to Pass" Beattie has set down one of the most colorful and absorbing stories written of the London "blitz." It is the story of the Docks:6e Londoners unboarding their shop fronts each morning; Of clerks. shop-girls and housewives who fought fire bombs throughout the night and continued with their normal tasks without faltering or complaining.
 Beattie has earned for himself a journalistic reputation for seeing the facets of events and grasping the underlying human drama missed by many another correspondent. And of all he sees he has a facility for writing Superbly well.
 Although he has been newspa- perman only since his graduation from Yale in 1881. Ed Beattie's U. P. by-line is known throughout the world. His friend Quentin Reynolds recently said of him:
 Ed is a great reporter because he knows everybody and everybody likes him. I regret to say that he calls both our ambassadors. MT. Vii nant and Mfr. Riddle, by their first names. One day when introduced Beattie to General Eisenhower. he floored me by saying. 'HOw-ya. Ike?' and Ike responded by throwing both arms around our young Rover Boy. Once called to see another of our generals. I was told he was busy. I waited an hour and finally the door opened. Four generals and ] Ed appeared.
 Tt is very annoying" Reynolds added laughingly. ito have men like Ed Beattie around London. I trust that his book will be a terrific hit and that Hollywood will buy it and that Ed will have to leave London to work on the picture. That will make us all happy. There's too much competition over here now as it is."