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Frank Herbert Simonds (April 5, 1878 – January 32, 1936) was a journalist, editor and author who concentrated on power politics in Europe during and after the First World War.

Early Life

Simonds was born in Concord, Massachusetts to William Henry and Jennie E. Simonds (nèe Garty) on April 5, 1878.

Before earning his A.B. from Harvard in 1901 and a Litt. D. from Dartmouth College in 1918, Simonds served as a private in the Spanish-American War (Co. I, 6th Mass Regt.).

Simonds married Mary France Gledhill on December 25, 1902. They had two children: Katherine (who later married Lovell Thompson) and James.

Simonds had homes in Washington D.C. and Snowville, New Hampshire.

Career

Simonds started his career in 1901 working as a reporter for the New York Tribune transferring to the Washington, DC bureau in 1903, finally serving as an Albany, NY correspondent 1904-1905. Simonds then served as an Albany correspondent for the New York Evening Post from 1906-1908. From 1908-1913 Simonds served as an editorial writer for The Sun after which he served as an editor of The Evening Sun from 1913-1914. In March of 1915, Simonds served as an editor for The Tribune until December 1918. Simonds was a contributing editor for Review of Reviews from 1914 to 1933. Starting in 1918, Simonds contributed to a syndicate of more than 50 newspapers worldwide.

Honors

• Chevalier Legion d'Honneur (1919)
• Commander of Order of the Phoenix
• Officer Star of Rumania
• Officer Polonia Restituta
• Officer Order of the Crown
• Order of Merit

Bibliography

Simonds wrote or edited the following books:

• They Shall Not Pass (1916)
• History of the World War (5 volumes 1917-1920)
• How Europe Made Peace without America (1927)
• Can Europe Keep the Peace (1931)
• They Won the War (1931)
• Can America Stay Home (1932)
• ABC of the War Debts (1933)