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...secretaries who read to him, is resigned to the prospect of complete blindness before his life ends. Young Joseph resembles his father in more ways than one, and particularly wants to resemble Old Joseph as a crusading publisher. For his chief editorial writer he has ruddy, Irish Ralph Coghlan, who would like to be known as a hard-hitting successor to Managing Editor Oliver Kirby ("O.K.") Bovard, who retired two years...
...liberal, progressive paper, the Post-Dispatch approved most New Deal reforms, found few national causes for crusades until last spring. Then Editor Coghlan began to suspect that Franklin Roosevelt was trying to get the U. S. into war. The Post-Dispatch leaped on the barricades, waved an isolationist banner, launched a crusade...
...Last week President Roosevelt took a step that Editor Coghlan had feared: without consulting Congress he sold 50 overage destroyers to Britain. Without even waiting for Attorney General Jackson's legal opinion to come in over the wire, Ralph Coghlan tore out the lead editorial he had written for that day's editions, substituted another...
Wrote Editor Coghlan: "Mr. Roosevelt today committed an act of war. He also became America's first dictator. . . . Undeterred by law or the most primitive form of common sense, the President is turning over to a warring power a goodly portion of the United States Navy. . . . We get in exchange leases on British possessions in this Hemisphere-but only leases. What good will these leases be if Hitler should acquire title to these islands by right of conquest? ... Of all sucker real-estate deals in history, this is the worst, and the President of the United States...
Appeasement? The Star-Times could not take this Blitzkrieg lying down. Next day, on page 1, the Star-Times struck back at Editor Coghlan. Calling the Post-Dispatch's piece a "fanatical diatribe, bred of mingled hate and fear," an effort "to win the Pulitzer Prize for Appease ment," the Star-Times bought the same space which the Post-Dispatch had taken in the New York Times and Washington Post to meet the attack...