War Years
During the Battle of Britain Janet Murrow broadcast for CBS on the British home front. She arranged for the evacuation of children, not to the English countryside, but to homes generously offered in the United States. She served on the British-American Liaison Board, which helped to ease friction between American GIs and British civilians.
She traveled throughout England lecturing for the American Embassy and for the Ministry of Information on American life to schools, civil defense units and other groups. She also gave a course on American history on BBC schools programmes. In 1946, she was awarded the King's Medal for Freedom in recognition of her services to international understanding.
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