Mowat, Killed In British Air Crash, Had Just Ended Visit Here

Mowat, Killed In British Air Crash, Had Just Ended Visit Here

Dr. Robert B. Mowat, eminent British historian who was one of 10 men killed In a trans-Atlantic transport plane found wrecked last night in an isolated mountainous district of the west coast of Britain, had just finished a visit with Prof. and Mrs. Preston W. Slosson in Ann Arbor before he boarded the bomber plane in Canada.

The University of Bristol professor, who was attached to the British Library of Information and lectured in the United States during the past 10 months as a Carnegie professor spent the week-end of Aug. 22 with the Slossons and was motored to Canada by them.

During Dr. Mowat’s three day stay in Ann Arbor he and Prof. Slosson completed a book on "English Speaking Peoples” on which they have been collaborating since 1938 and made plans for a second book on diplomatic history. Prof. Slosson described his coauthor as an energetic optimist who saw such encouragement in the Russian stand against Germany that he predicted the end of the war within a year.

Prof. and Mrs. Slosson first met

Dr. Mowat in 1932 when Prof. Slosson was sent to the University of Bristol as a Carnegie lecturer. Mrs. Slosson studied under him at that time. They renewed their friendships in 1938 when Prof. Slosson was sent again to England on a Carnegie grant, and when Dr. Mowat was here this spring, as a University guest lecturer, he was entertained by the Slossons.

Dr. Mowat has four sons in war service, and a daughter is driving an ambulance to aid Britain’s cause. His fifth son, Prof. Charles M. Mowat, is a professor of history at the University of California in Los Angeles.