The Charlotte News

Tuesday, February 10, 1942

FIVE EDITORIALS

Site Ed. Note: "Too Little..." conveys the news that Singapore was on the brink of falling, the Japanese being within seven miles of the main water supply for the island. Air support came in dribbles rather than the needed torrents to counteract the well-positioned aerodromes on the northern peninsula of the Japanese.

Dorothy Thompson, Raymond Clapper, and Paul Mallon each speak of apathy and a divided country just two months after Pearl Harbor, a seeming return to that state of affairs pre-existing the attack. It is attributed on the one hand to apathy and a lack of appreciation of the fact that the war was being lost, on the other, by Ms. Thompson, to the continued efforts of the isolationists and fascist groups to divide the country from within, primarily to sow seeds of political distrust to achieve success over Roosevelt and his political coattails.

Meanwhile, part of the country carps over the civil defense program and Mrs. Roosevelt's entourage of friends being brought on the government payroll for seemingly frivolous work.

All was not roses, all was not the face of unity, all was no longer gung-ho and over the hill, here just two months after the United States entered the war.

Given further time, and the realization hitting home finally by summer that the war was in fact being lost, all of that would change, much to consternation of reprobate fools such as Hitler and Tojo.

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