Pierre van paassen biography
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by Pierre Camper Paassen
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van Paassen, Pierre°
VAN PAASSEN, PIERRE ° (1895–1968), writer and journalist; among the most fervent non-Jewish Zionists. Born in Gorinchem, Holland, to a Calvinist family, Van Paassen was raised on the Bible and love for the people and the land of Israel. From 1914 he lived in Canada. He became a world-famous journalist, noted for his travel articles and interviews with leading personalities. His attachment to the Jewish people and land of Israel emerged after his first visit to Palestine in 1925, and from then on his books and articles reflected his enthusiastic attitude toward Zionism. In 1942 Van Paassen headed in the U.S. the Committee for a Jewish Army. His book The Forgotten Ally (1943) was a sharp indictment of British anti-Zionist policy; its Hebrew version was banned by the Mandatory government in Palestine in 1946. He also polemicized against Jewish and Zionist leaders whom he accused of a moderate, compromising stance toward anti-Zionist Britain.
Van Paassen published many books, some of them autobiographical (Days of Our Years, 1943; To Number Our Days, 1964). He was the author of That Day Alone (1941), The Time is Now (1941), and Jerusalem Calling (1950) and the editor (together with J.W. Wise) of Nazism, an Assault on Civilization (1934).
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Pierre van Paassen
American journalist and minister (1895–1968)
Pierre van Paassen (February 7, 1895 – January 8, 1968)[1] was a Dutch-Canadian-American journalist, writer, and Unitarian minister. He was born in Gorinchem, Netherlands, then emigrated with his parents to Canada in 1914. After entering a seminary, he served as a missionary to Ruthenian immigrants in the Alberta hinterland, where he helped with medical work. In 1917 he left theological school to serve with the Canadian army in France in World War I as an infantryman and sapper.
In 1921 he became a journalist with the Toronto Globe, and a year later moved to the U.S. and began writing a syndicated column for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. From 1924 to 1931, Van Paassen worked as a foreign correspondent and columnist for the New York Evening World, based in Paris. After the World folded, he became a foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star.
Van Paassen spoke Dutch, French, English, and some Ruthenian (a language similar enough to Ukrainian that it allowed him to converse passably with many Russians), and later learned Hebrew.
He gained fame reporting on the conflicts among Arabs, British, Jews and French in the Middle East, as well as on the ongoing African slave trade and