Clarence Streit


Clarence Kirschmann Streit was an American journalist and Atlanticist who played a prominent role in the Atlantic Movement.

Streit was born in California, Missouri, the son of Emma and Louis Leland Streit. Of Palatine German origin, he moved with his family to Missoula, Montana in 1911. In Missoula, he founded the Konah, a high school paper that is now one of the oldest in the United States in continuous publication. While a student at Montana State University , he volunteered for military service during World War I, serving in an Intelligence unit in France and assisting the American delegation at the Conference of Versailles. He was a Rhodes scholar at University of Oxford in 1920. He married Jeanne Defrance in Paris in 1921, after which he became a foreign correspondent for the New York Times.

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