Shortly thereafter, he was transferred to London as a foreign correspondent for the Record, and then the Chicago Daily News, where he served for 20 years.

In December 1917, Editor & Publisher praised his coverage of events in Europe relating to the United States' entry into World War I.

Both before and since America's entry into the conflict Mr. Bell, with his pen and on the platform, has rendered services in the interests of his country and of the Allies that have caused him to be considered generally in the light of unofficial interpreter of American aims, institutions, and aspirations.

He used this close relationship to the advantage of British-American relations by organizing the London Naval Conference and Treaty, attended and signed by President Hoover and UK Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald in 1930.

[3] Bell died on September 23, 1943, at his home in Pass Christian, Mississippi, of complications of beriberi.