Emery Reves (1904–1981)

From DMA.org: Born Emery Revesz in Bácsföldvár (then in Hungary; now Baĉko Gradište in Serbia) to a middle-class Jewish family. A brilliant student in Budapest, he moved to Berlin in 1922 and then continued his studies at the University of Zürich. There he obtained a doctorate in economics in 1926, writing on the economic theories of Walther Rathenau, the German politician and industrialist.

By the 1930s, Reves had become an avid art collector, but his collections were seized by the Nazis and never recovered. He left Berlin in 1933, after the persecution of the Jews had begun and his apartment was vandalized. Later he lost his mother and many other relatives to the Nazi Holocaust. In Paris, he started the press agency Cooperation Press Service, a unique organization that presented the perspectives and concerns of different European countries. The CPS expanded quickly, translating and selling journalism in three languages by politicians, diplomats, and famous writers. His own essays were translated and published in many newspapers throughout the world. He also supported the publication of political works, of which the most famous was Fritz Thyssen’s I Paid Hitler, published in 1941 during World War II. In 1940, Reves fled France for England, where he obtained British citizenship. Less than a year later, he took ship for New York City, where he remained for a number of years, publishing first A Democratic Manifesto and then his best-known work, The Anatomy of Peace (1945). In the immediate postwar period, it became a bestseller, with 800,000 copies printed in different languages. Reves was extremely successful as a publisher, author, and worldwide authority on international affairs. He rebuilt his valuable art collection and was the literary agent and main publisher of Winston Churchill’s works outside the UK. In 1964, he married Wendy Russell, a former fashion model.
In 1989, Mrs. Reves established the Reves Center for International Studies at the College of William & Mary in Virginia to honor her late husband.