Author: Wallace Rankin Deuel
Born: 1905
Died: 1974
Bio: From NYT obit 1974

WALLACE DEUEL, REPORTER, DEAD
May 12, 1974
CHICAGO,, May 11 (AP)—Wallace R. Deuel, a former foreign correspondent of The Chicago Daily News who was well known for his wartime dispatches, died yesterday at the age of 68.

Mr. Deuel died while returning to Chicago to live with his son, Peter, a former Daily News reporter who now is associate clerk of the Cook County (Chicago) kcircuit Court.

At invasion of Poland

As ciief of the Berlin bureau of the Chicago. Daily News from 1935 to 1940, Mr. Deuel accompanied the German artily on its invasions of Poland and Western Europe.

Out of this experience came a book, “People Under Hitler,” an account of his observations of German life in the Nazi era, and a thoroughgoing knowledge of the German mentality.

“People Under Hitler,” published in 1942, drew this comment from The Times Book Review: “Its description of the systematic away in which lib erty has been extracted from German life is accurate, in part novel, and, definitely interesting and informative.”

Mr. Deuel graduated from, the University of Illinois in 1925, taught at the American University in Beirut, Lebanon, and joined The Daily News in 1928 as a writer on the Middle East. He served also in Rome, New York and Washington and became assistant to the foreign editor and an editorial writer.

Among the events he reported for The Daily News, The New York Post, The St. Louis Post‐Dispatch and other newspapers and magazines, were the Munich crisis, the remilitarization of the Rhineland, the Nazi party congresses at Nuremberg, and the Nazis’ persecution of the Jews

Mr. Peuel left The News in 1940 tojoin the Office of Strategic Services, a forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency. Later, he was an aide to Robert Murphy, the adviser on Germany to General of the Army DWight D. Eisenhower.

He returned to The Daily News in 1949, left to join the staff of The, St. Louis PostDispatch and joined the C.I.A. in 1953. He retired in 1972.