Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What Paper Do You Read? The quality of this extravagant coverage was something else. The painful Pearl Harbor story was confused at best. It was com plicated by contradiction, by varying recol lections and by bitter bouts of political swordplay. Most of the reporters strove to tell it coherently. But a sizable portion of the U.S. press did little to untangle the story for the man who knew only what he read in the papers...
...headlines and news accounts and signed columns, different bits of testimony were played up, tailored to fit old prejudices. In Marshall Field's leftist PM, the whole inquiry was treated as a mere smear-as if no one cared to know what had happened at Pearl Harbor. To people who read John O'Donnell's poison penmanship in the Roosevelt-hating New York Daily News and Washington Times-Herald, it was a war criminal trial, with Franklin Roosevelt, the culprit, tried and convicted daily. Sample O'Donnell: "One becomes appalled and frightened...
...Hearst press, one story had Churchill trying to keep the U.S. out of war, and a John T. Flynn piece saying that Churchill and Roosevelt had conspired to get the U.S. in. Manhattan dailies could not agree whether the Jap codes gave us a nine-day tipoff on Pearl Harbor (Daily News), 15 days (Mirror), or six months (Times...
When Admiral Leahy was called to add to the testimony of Admiral Richardson on keeping the fleet at Pearl Harbor, the headline in the Chicago Tribune said that he "forgets," in the New York Sun that he "denies," in the Philadelphia Record that he "doubts" and in PM that he "verifies" what Admiral Richardson said...
...confusion at Pearl Harbor was being confounded in the U.S. press last week...