Walter then gained transatlantic passage of a freighter carrying ice cream to Europe during the late 1940s. He lived in Paris during much of the 1950s, where he helped launch the "Paris Review", living across the street from the publication's office and contributing to the earliest issues with text, art and interviews. His short story "Troubador" appeared in the first issue. His "Paris Review" interviews included Isak Dinesen and Robert Penn Warren. [http://theparisreview.org/viewinterview.php/prmMID/4868 In 1960, for "Transatlantic Review", he interviewed Gore Vidal. Eventually, Walter moved from Paris to Rome at the request of Marguerite Caetani, Princess di Bassiano, to edit her literary journal "Botteghe Oscure".