From 1933 to 1938 he was on special assignment in Berlin. in 1935 he reported on the Immortal, Duncan MacLeod and his contacts with Ingrid Henning, and the fact that he tended to bet rather too open about his politics. Another special assignment to Austria from 1938 to 1941 followed. His final assignment from 1941 to 1943 was military on the Eastern Front. He was killed in action there.