Alice Leone-Moats – A Date with Mars (1943)

Alice Leone-Moats (1908-1989), an author who was born in Mexico to wealthy and socially prominent American parents. She became the Colliers correspondent in the USSR and China during WW2 who wrote Blind Date with Mars (1943)… In 1944, the State Department cancelled her passport as she had travelled to Vichy-controlled France, and under war-time regulations it was illegal to travel to enemy-controlled territory