THE AUTHOR: H. LESLIE VERRY, whose photograph appears above, and who is author of this article, is a New Zealand journalist who has spent the last two years travelling in Europe. The "Tairoa," last victim of the "Graf Spee," carried him to England early in 1938. He freelanced in London for a while, then branched out into the unknown of Central Europe. His pen and his journalist's curiosity took him to the Balkans: Turkey, Rumania, Greece, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Hungary. He travelled through Ruthenia. No legendary kingdom this, but the pawn in the game Hungary played during negotiations for the Munich agreement. Hungary secured it from the dismembered Czechoslovakia. From Germany, Holland, and Belgium, he returned to London and stayed there during two war-time months. His crossing of the Atlantic on the way home was enlivened by 24 hours with a convoy and a destroyers attack with depth-charges on a submarine.

New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 29, 12 January 1940, Page 8

THE AUTHOR: H. LESLIE VERRY, whose photograph appears above, and who is author of this article, is a New Zealand journalist who has spent the last two years travelling in Europe. The "Tairoa," last victim of the "Graf Spee," carried him to England early in 1938. He freelanced in London for a while, then branched out into the unknown of Central Europe. His pen and his journalist's curiosity took him to the Balkans: Turkey, Rumania, Greece, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Hungary. He travelled through Ruthenia. No legendary kingdom this, but the pawn in the game Hungary played during negotiations for the Munich agreement. Hungary secured it from the dismembered Czechoslovakia. From Germany, Holland, and Belgium, he returned to London and stayed there during two war-time months. His crossing of the Atlantic on the way home was enlivened by 24 hours with a convoy and a destroyers attack with depth-charges on a submarine.