Smedley to Nehru, September 9, 1930, Motilal Nehru papers, series no. 819. On the Missouri group of journalists in Shanghai see Stephen MacKinnon and Oris Friesen, China Reporting: An Oral History of American Journalism in the 1930s and 1940s (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1987), chapter 3; interview with Randall Gould; Battle Hymn, p. 96; Smedley to Sanger, June 13, 1929.