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During [[World War II]], when the United States was still neutral, Lyon and his wife, actress [[Bebe Daniels]], settled in ...War II he returned to the colours as a lieutenant colonel in charge of US Army Air Forces [[Special Services (entertainment)|Special Services]].<ref>{{Cit

...as well as the recipient of governmental honours from, amongst others, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. He also displayed a unique cultural versatili Jona (or Iona) worked as a press officer at the [[German Ambassador to the United Kingdom|German Embassy in London]] in the 1930s and was a reporter for a Ge