Günther Stein

Stein was a foreign correspondent in China for the Manchester Guardian, The Christian Science Monitor, and the Associated Press.

Erwin Canham, editor of the Monitor during this period, wrote later of Stein's brief contribution to the paper from Japan and China which ended in 1945.

He refers to later reports of Stein working for the Soviet Union while in Japan and an alleged connection with the Sorge spy ring.

[2] Ralph de Toledano wrote that in 1942 the Institute of Pacific Relations invited Stein to become its Chongqing correspondent, from where he wrote books and articles to convey the idea that the Chinese Communists were "a superlative breed of idealists.

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