A foreign correspondent — like Edgar Mowrer in Germany in the 1930s — occupies a peculiar place in the life of a country:
Because he and his friends in the foreign press lead American opinion on Germany, and America is a democracy, they lead American policy toward Germany. And, naturally, they have friends in Germany, and enemies in Germany; and they feel that American policy should result in their friends running Germany, and their enemies… not running Germany.So, in a sense, when Germany moves to the right, it is rebelling against the nascent international community — and against Edgar Mowrer. And thus his anger. Later expressed in tons of TNT.