Telephone Interview with Professor Douglas Bement (May 19, 1941)

TELEPHONE INTERVIEW WITH PROFESSOR DOUGLAS BEMENT
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, ENGLISH DEPARTMENT, 19 MAY 1941.

Professor Bement recalled that about six or seven years ago the applicant was a student of his for one year. Since that time, he has been in contact with the applicant until about four years ago. Both during his university year and since, Professor Bement has known the applicant in a social way. The applicant did not finish his university work as he left school to take up free-lance writing. In this line of work the Professor felt the applicant had shown remarkable talent and had earned recognition for his work both in books and as a magazine writer. He stated that the applicant had demonstrated a willingness to do hard work and had the ability to stick to any job he had undertaken and complete the same. He felt that the applicant was rather impetuous but a very likable personality. In fact the applicant was pleasing to know, honest, sober, loyal and intelligent. He thinks that the applicant had definitely demonstrated his qualities for leadership and he was glad to add his recommendation that the applicant be given a commission in the USNR.