Editing Hodding Carter (section)

===Personal life===
He had a son [[Hodding Carter III]], born in 1935, who became State Department spokesman during the Carter administration and achieved a degree of notoriety by often appearing on television news.<ref name = McFadden>{{cite news|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/12/us/hodding-carter-dead.html|title = Hodding Carter III, Crusading Editor and Jimmy Carter Aide, Dies at 88|last = McFadden|first = Robert D.|date = May 12, 2023|accessdate = May 15, 2023|newspaper = [[The New York Times]]|url-access = limited|archive-date = May 12, 2023|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230512180309/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/12/us/hodding-carter-dead.html|url-status = live}}</ref>

Carter was strongly opposed to the [[Munich Conference]], which ceded [[Sudetenland|the Sudetenland]] to [[Adolf Hitler]]. Carter rushed into [[World War II]] service. While stationed at [[Camp Blanding]] in Florida, he lost the sight in his right eye during a training exercise. He thereafter served in the Intelligence Division and continued his journalistic activities by editing the Middle East division of ''[[Yank, the Army Weekly|Yank]]'' and ''[[Stars and Stripes (newspaper)|Stars and Stripes]]'' in [[Cairo]], [[Egypt]], and writing three books.<ref>[http://www.wcs-ddm.org/about_quote.asp?QuoteId=6 Women's Crisis Support] web site. Last accessed: 1/13/07.</ref>