Wax yar ka dib wuxuu saaxiibo la noqday Van Lear Black, oo ah milyaneer Mareykan ah oo daabaca wargeyska "The Baltimore Sun" oo fasax ku joogay London. Black wuxuu u shaqaaleysiiyay inuu noqdo caawiyihiisa gaarka ah, MacColl wuxuu la socday safar 200,000 oo mayl ah oo uu ku maray Yurub, Afrika iyo Dutch East Indies isagoo saaran diyaarad Fokker ah oo uu Black ka soo kiraystay KLM. Markii uu ku soo laabtay Mareykanka bishii Sebtember 1927, Black wuxuu MacColl u soo bandhigay shaqo "The Baltimore Sun" oo ah weriye degmo, oo uu aqbalay. Wuxuu laba sano ka warbixiyey Baltimore, waqtigaas oo uu la kulmay xaaskiisa, Helen, oo uu la yeelan doono laba carruur ah. Wuxuu ku soo laabtay England 1929 wuxuuna ku biiray "The Daily Telegraph", halkaas oo uu ka soo warbixiyay dhacdooyinka guriga iyo markabka, oo ay ku jiraan caleemo saarka George VI
, arooskii Zog I ee Albania iyo Dagaalkii Sokeeye ee Isbaanishka, iyadoo MacColl uu ka mid ahaa suxufiyiintii ugu horreeyay ee soo galaya Madrid ka dib markii ay ku dhacday Franco bishii Maarso 1939.