Walter Millis was an editorial and staff writer for the New York Herald Tribune from 1924 to 1954. Millis was a staff member of the Fund for the Republic from 1954 to 1968. He later became the director of the Fund for the Republic's study of demilitarization in 1954. No. 1 on The New York Times Nonfiction best seller list for 1 week, from the issue of May 13, 1935. Wiki link