The Anatomy of Peace

Emery Reves

Emery Reves studied in the Universities of Berlin and Paris, and received his degree of Doctor of Political Economy from the University of Zurich. In 1930, he founded and is president of Cooperation Press Service and Cooperation Publishing Company, formerly of Paris and London, now of New York City.

During the pre-war years his organization developed into a unique observation tower from which Mr. Reves had to follow events most closely, as newspapers naturally expected the articles received from Cooperation to be up to the minute.

For ten years Mr. Reves constantly travelled from country to country, covering an average of 30,000 miles per year. He was in the closest personal contact with all the leading figures of European political life and attended most of the important international conferences and meetings.

Mr. Reves is also responsible for the publication all over the world of Hermann Rauschning’s conversations with Hitler, Fritz Thyssen’s I Paid Hitler, Prince Starhemberg’s Between Hitler and Mussolini, and other similar anti-Nazi documentary books. He had three last-minute escapes from the Gestapo.

In the fall of 1942, he wrote A Democratic Manifesto, which had rather extraordinary reactions. Several universities and high schools adopted it as a text-book, and it was the subject of sermons in various churches.