SEVEN Of US set out on the trip to the Low Countries and
France: Diettrich, Lilyenfeldt, Kunsti, Paul Dickson, two
broadcasters for the German radio, and myself. Diettrich ac-
companied us to arrange the radio facilities, with the broad-
casts to go out of Brussels and Paris to Berlin and thence by
short wave to the United States. If a broadcast might originate
from any other point, Diettrich would be on hand to arrange
that, too. He was a skilled technician, as capable as any I had
ever met. Lilyenfeldt was the censor for the Foreign Office,
Kunsti the censor for the High Command. All three also were
going for the ride. All the Nazi officials liked to arrange trips
for us whenever possible if they could go too. A trip to Paris,
where there were still goods to be bought, was a special oppor-
tunity.

Dickson was to broadcast for Mutual. Sigrid Schultz had
been doing the MBS programs, but could not leave Berlin be-
cause of her work for the Chicago Tribune. Moreover, she
had just returned from a trip to the Balkans. Dickson had been
working for the Tribune, too, but only recently, and he still
worried about his ability to handle news stories. He had been
a student of engineering in Germany for more than eleven
years, spoke perfect German, and when the war began felt it

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