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...works, looked on with increasing wrath. When To the Brink appeared, the Star-Times lashed out with a caustic editorial of its own on page 1. Missouri's New Deal Representative Thomas Carey Hennings Jr. read the Star-Times answer into the Congressional Record, and the Post-Dispatch crusade exploded into a full-fledged editorial...
...first time in its life the Post-Dispatch bought space in two eastern newspapers, the Washington Star and the New York Times, reprinted its editorial in territory the Post-Dispatch does not reach. So incensed was one 62-year-old citizen of St. Louis, Lawrence Miller, a onetime sergeant in the A. E. F. with two World War I citations for bravery, that he threw bricks through three Post-Dispatch windows, broke $500 worth of plate glass. Said he: "I broke the windows to get even...
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...
Recalling Thomas Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase, the Star-Times jibed: "The Post-Dispatch of that day was the Columbian Centinel of Boston, and its conduct is described in five words by Claude Bowers in Jefferson in Power: 'The Columbian Centinel went mad.' . . . [The Centinel declared] that Jefferson had given away 'nearly all the gold and silver in the United States.' And for what? 'Wild land.' Land of which 'we do not want a foot.' Jefferson, it moaned, 'had run in debt for Mississippi moonshine $15,000,000. . . . There were appeasers...
Added the Star-Times in a soberer vein: "Unneutral? Of course it is unneutral, in a world where neutrality has become Hitler's jest and Holland's grave. . . . Loud will be the laughter of Göring and Goebbels . . . when they read . . . the Post-Dispatch's editorial, translated, as it will be, in the Völkulcher Beobachter. . . . Roosevelt . . . acted in an hour of danger. . . . It was not an act of war, but an act to keep war away from America, now and forever...