Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: N'oge na-adịghị anya, ọ ghọrọ enyi Van Lear Black, onye America bụ́ onye nde mmadụ na onye na-ebipụta akwụkwọ akụkọ "The Baltimore Sun" bụ́ onye nọ ezumike na London. Black goro ya ka ọ bụrụ onye enyemaka ya, ya na MacColl na-eso ya na njem 200,000 kilomita gafee Europe, Africa na Dutch East Indies n'ụgbọ elu Fokker nke Black goro site na KLM. Mgbe ọ laghachiri United States na Septemba 1927, Black nyere MacColl ọrụ na "The Baltimore Sun" dị ka onye nta akụkọ mpaghara, nke ọ nabatara. Ọ nọrọ afọ abụọ na-akọ akụkọ na Baltimore, n'oge ahụ ọ zutere nwunye ya, Helen, onye ọ ga-enwe ụmụ abụọ. Ọ laghachiri England n'afọ 1929 ma sonye na "The Daily Telegraph", ebe ọ kọrọ akụkọ ihe mere n'ụlọ na n'ụgbọ, gụnyere
Nchịkọta nke George nke Isii, agbamakwụkwọ nke Zog nke Mbụ nke Albania na Agha Obodo Spanish, ebe MacColl bụ otu n'ime ndị nta akụkọ mbụ batara na Madrid mgbe ọdịda ya na Franco na Machị 1939.