12. Washington Post, “Laura Ingalls Jailed in D.C. as Nazi Agent,” December 19, 1941, 1.
13. Royal Arch Gunnison, “Japanese to Find Navy Using Offensive Defense in Far East,” Washington Evening Star, December 18, 1941, A-21.
14. Lethbridge Herald (Alberta, Canada), “War Shots from Far East: Manila,” December 19, 1941, 5.
15. Associated Press, “Hit-and-Run Planes Raid Vital Area,” Baltimore Sun, December 19, 1941, 1.
16. Associated Press, “U.S. Subs Sink Transport, Torpedo Jap Destroyer,” Boston Globe, December 19, 1941, 1.
17. Canadian Press, “News Contact With Island Now Cut Off,” Lethbridge Herald (Alberta, Canada), December 19, 1941, 1.
18. Associated Press, “Japs Meanwhile Strike Fierce New Blows in Pacific,” Birmingham (AL) News, December 18, 1941, 1.
19. New York Times, “Japanese Advance in Malayan Drive,” December 19, 1941, 6.
20. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, “Memorandum from Dillon to FDR,” Box 2, a1bb01, December 19, 1941, Hyde Park, NY.
21. Christian Science Monitor, “British Garrison Evacuates Penang; Cavite and Wake Attacked Again; U.S. Troops reported at Singapore,” December 19, 1941, 1.
22. New York Times, “American Flier Crashed His Plane Into Enemy Ship Off Philippines,” December 19, 1941, 6.
23. Christian Science Monitor, “Two Cruisers, Destroyer Lost By Italians,” December 19, 1941, 7.
24. Jack B. Beardwood, Associated Press, “If Canal Is Bombed—Pacific War Focuses New Attention on Historic Straits of Magellan,” Washington Post, December 19, 1941, 9.
25. United Press, “Macarthur Is Nominated for General’s Rank,” Yuma (AZ) Daily Sun, December 19, 1941, 1.
26. Washington Post, “MacArthur’s Promotion,” December 21, 1941, 6.
27. Associated Press, “Dogfish Harassed Dunedin Survivors,” Washington Post, December 19, 1941, 12.
28. Edward Shorter, Bedside Manners (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985), 181.
29. Paul Mallon, “Civilian Life Change Seen in 60 Days,” The Hartford Courant, December 18, 1941, 3.
30. Boston Globe, “Eels for Hyphenated Americans Arrive to Christmas Marts,” December 19, 1941, 12.
31. Lethbridge Herald (Alberta, Canada), “War Dries Up Imported Liquers,” December 19, 1941, 2.
32. Los Angeles Times, “Fake Wardens Hit for Tactics in Blackout,” December 18, 1941, 6.
33. Los Angeles Times, “Crack Riflemen Form Corps of Minute Men,” December 18, 1941, Part II-5.
34. Washington Post, “First Official U.S. War Poster,” December 19, 1941, 10.
35. New York Times, “Poster Depicting Army Pursuit Ship Wins ‘Keep ’Em Flying’ Contest to Aid Recruiting,” December 19, 1941, 5.
36. Washington Post, “Need Stressed for Chaplains,” December 19, 1941, 16.
37. Washington Post, “Catholics Back ‘War for Peace,’” December 19, 1941, 16.
38. Washington Evening Star, “Pictures,” December 18, 1941, A10.
39. David Lawrence, “Money Dims Halo About New Dealers,” Washington Evening Star, December 18, 1941, D-8.
40. Robert De Vore, “Firm With $42,500 Capital Shared $34,000,000 War Jobs,” Washington Post, December 19, 1941, 1.
41. Harold Heffernan, “A Moving Performance: Stars Applaud Jimmy Stewart’s Bill of Rights Radio Stint,” Washington Evening Star, December 18, 1941, D4.
42. Wall Street Journal, “Washington Wire,” December 19, 1941, 1.
43. Charles Hurd, “Army Will Close Volunteer Rolls,” New York Times, December 19, 1941, 5.
44. Baltimore Sun, “Men and Women Stenographers Sought for War Office Jobs,” December 19, 1941, 7.
45. Baltimore Sun, “Senate Passes 19-to-45 Draft With Only Two Dissenting,” December 19, 1941, 12.
46. Christian Science Monitor, “North Carolina Town Entertains the Army,” December 19, 1941, 3.
47. Harold Martin, “Doesn’t Take Book Learning to Shoot a Rifle, Says York,” Atlanta Constitution, December 19, 1941, 8.
48. Ruth Cowan, Associated Press, “Roosevelts to Have Christmas as Usual Despite A.A. Guns,” Birmingham (AL) News, December 19, 1941, 49.
49. Birmingham (AL) News, “More Alabamians Killed in Jap War,” December 19, 1941, 51.
50. Wall Street Journal, “Future of Television Discussed in Capital,” December 19, 1941, 6.
51. Christian Science Monitor, “State Governments Mobilize Strength Behind War Effort,” December 19, 1941, 1.
52. New York Times, “Wire Control Approved,” December 19, 1941, 6.
53. Associated Press, “Senators Urge Daylight Savings,” New York Times, December 19, 1941, 4.
54. New York Times, “Laws To Enforce Blackouts Urged,” December 19, 1941, 18.
55. New York Times, “Mayor Off to Washington; Defense Job Under Fire,” December 19, 1941, 22.
56. United Press, “War Costing U.S. $729 Per Second; Next Year, $1400,” Yuma (AZ) Daily Sun, December 19, 1941, 1.
57. Louis M. Lyons, “New England Colleges Move to War Footing,” Boston Evening Globe, December 19, 1941, 5.
58. Associated Press, “30 Minutes Warning and Japs Would Have Lost at Honolulu,” Birmingham (AL) News, December 19, 1941, 1.
59. United Press, “Know Warns Japs Have Largest Naval Force in Western Pacific,” Yuma (AL) Daily Sun, December 19, 1941, 1.
CHAPTER 20: THE TWENTIETH OF DECEMBER
1. Boston Evening Globe, “Hong Kong Doomed,” December 20, 1941, 1.
2. Winston Churchill, The Gathering Storm (New York: Rosetta Books, 2002), 562.
3. Boston Daily Globe, “Flying Santa Claus Grounded by War,” December 20, 1941, 6.
4. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Library and Museum, “Memorandum For The President from the Director of the Selective Service Regarding Men in Defense-Related Jobs, Recruiting and the Draft,” December 20, 1941, Hyde Park, NY.
5. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Library and Museum, “Summary of Report on Program For Loyal West Coast Japanese from John Franklin Carter,” December 19, 1941, Hyde Park, NY.
6. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Library and Museum, “Secretary of the Navy Knox to President Roosevelt Regarding Trans-Pacific Netherlands Shipping,” December 20, 1941, Hyde Park, NY.
7. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Library and Museum, “Memorandum Regarding Sharing Information From Moscow Between London and Washington,” December 20, 1941, Hyde Park, NY.
8. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Library and Museum, “Memorandum Regarding the Soviet Post-War Desire to Expand into the Baltic States and Further West,” December 20, 1941, Hyde Park, NY.
9. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Library and Museum, “Memorandum from the Office of the Legal Advisor of the State Department Regarding Legalities Surrounding Declarations of War and Peace,” December 20, 1941, Hyde Park, NY.
10. Baltimore Sun, “Bares Axis Spying in Latin America,” December 20, 1941, 9.
11. Associated Press, “Thousands of Enemy Agents Are Active in Southern Continent,” Atlanta Constitution, December 20, 1941, 1, 87
12. Boston Evening Globe, “United Press Editors Place Soviet War High,” December 20, 1941, 1.
13. Associated Press, “Marshall, Wife Get Full Custody of Girls,” Washington Post, December 20, 1941, 15.
14. Associated Press, “National Debt Tops 57 Billion,” Los Angeles Times, December 20, 1941, 2.
15. Washington Evening Star, “Workers Are Wanted to Help Fix Damage at Pearl Harbor,” December 19, 1941, B-1.
16. New York Times, “Plant to Produce New Dive Bombers,” December 19, 1941, 17.
17. Washington Post, “Navy Seizes Scarce Materials Worth a Million,” December 20, 1941, 15.
18. Washington Evening Star, “Navy Takes Over Four of Gulf’s Finest Yachts,” December 20, 1941, 16.
19. Wall Street Journal, “Roosevelt’s Powers Already Greater Than Any Previous President’s With More On the Way,” December 20, 1941, 1.
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. Wall Street Journal, “Streamlining of OPM Activities to Speed Arms Work Taking Form,” December 20, 1941, 4.
21. Washington Post, “Many More to Go; Government Will Aid Those Moving,” December 20, 1941, 1.
22. Washington Post, “Senior Scouts Start Civilian Defense Move,” December 20, 1941, 15.
23. New York Times, “Air Training Plan for U.S. Boys Seen,” December 20, 1941, 5.
24. Washington Post, “D.C. Committee of 70 Set Up to Direct Salvage of Scrap,” December 20, 1941, 17.
25. New York Times, “Blind Now Aiding Defense Program,” December 19, 1941, 21.
26. Associated Press, “Coast Harbor Defender Calls For Dog Recruits,” Baltimore Sun, December 20, 1941, 8.
27. New York Times, “Public Notices and Commercial Notices,” December 19, 1941, 2.
28. New York Times, “Japanese Bomb Philippine Port,” December 19, 1941, 4.
29. Yuma Daily Sun, “San Quentin Men Volunteer for Suicide Squad,” December 20, 1941, 1.
30. Wall Street Journal, “Factories to Hum on Christmas Day Where Operations Aid War Effort,” December 20, 1941, 2.
31. Associated Press, “Christmas in Honolulu,” Baltimore Sun, December 20, 1941, 4.
32. Associated Press, “Christmas in Honolulu,” Baltimore Sun, December 20, 1941, 4.
33. Wall Street Journal, “Industrial Output Up, Reserve Board Says; BAE Forecasts Rise in ’42 Buying Power,” December 20, 1941, 2.
34. Wall Street Journal, “Spiegel Adopts New Sales Policy; Adds Credit Service Charge,” December 20, 1941, 3.
35. Wall Street Journal, “Shirley Temple Again,” December 20, 1941, 7.
36. Lethbridge Herald, “War Shots From Here and There,” December 20, 1941, 12.
37. Lethbridge Herald, “War Shots From Here and There,” December 20, 1941, 12.
38. Wall Street Journal, “What’s News,” December 20, 1941, 1.
39. Baltimore Sun, “British Take Derna Airport in Quick Sally,” December 20, 1941, 3.
40. Baltimore Sun, “German Division Wipe Out, Reds Say; Other Casualties Inflicted,” December 20, 1941, 1.
41. Yuma Daily Sun, “American Pilots Down Four Jap Bombers, China,” December 20, 1941, 1.
42. Washington Post, “Embattled Wake Fights Off 2 More Jap Air Attacks,” December 20, 1941, 1.
43. Boston Sunday Globe, “MacArthur’s Army,” December 21, 1941, 8.
44. Baltimore Sun, “New Marine Poster Will Be Out Next Week,” December 20, 1941, 3.
45. Baltimore Sun, “Thinks He Knows Causes of Physical Defects,” December 20, 1941, 9.
46. Associated Press, “Navy and Marine Corps Relax Recruiting Rules,” Los Angeles Times, December 20, 1941, 5.
47. Boston Sunday Globe, “MacArthur’s Army,” December 21, 1941, 8.
48. Associated Press, “More U.S. War Aid Sought by Quezon,” Baltimore Sun, December 20, 1941, 9.
49. Boston Sunday Globe, “MacArthur’s Army,” December 21, 1941, 3.
50. Associated Press, “Jap Fifth Columnists Do It With Mirrors,” Washington Post, December 20, 1941, 3.
51. International News Service, “The President’s Day,” Washington Post, December 20, 1941, 2.
52. Washington Post, “Hull Denies He Asked Navy to Lift Patrol,” December 20, 1941, 1.
53. Washington Post, “Hull Denies He Asked Navy to Lift Patrol,” December 20, 1941, 4.
CHAPTER 21: THE TWENTY-FIRST OF DECEMBER
1. Hartford Courant, “Enemy Subs Active off East, West Coasts,” December 21, 1941, 1.
2. Joseph J. Cloud, “Enemy Subs Lurking off Bothe U.S. Coasts; Two Vessels Attacked in California Waters; Adm. King Named Chief of All Our Naval Forces,” Washington Post, December 21, 1941, 1.
3. Los Angeles Times, “Jap Subs Raid California Ships,” December 21, 1941, 1.
4. Foster Hailey, “West Coast Eyes South for Enemy,” New York Times, December 22, 1941, 3.
5. Foster Hailey, “West Coast Eyes South for Enemy,” New York Times, December 22, 1941, 3.
6. Foster Hailey, “West Coast Eyes South for Enemy,” New York Times, December 22, 1941, 3.
7. Joseph J. Cloud, “Enemy Subs Lurking off Bothe U.S. Coasts; Two Vessels Attacked in California Waters; Adm. King Named Chief of All Our Naval Forces,” Washington Post, December 21, 1941, 1.
8. Associated Press, “Gen. MacArthur Out of Touch With Davao Defenders,” Boston Daily Globe, December 21, 1941, 1.
9. Associated Press, “Davao Cut Off by Jap Air and Land Attack,” Chicago Daily Tribune, December 21, 1941, 6.
10. Associated Press, “Bolo-Swinging Moros Rally to Fight Japs,” Boston Daily Globe, December 21, 1941, A10.
11. Chicago Daily Tribune, “Reveal 20 Jap Ships Engaged in Philippine Raid,” December 21, 1941, 8.
12. United Press, “Japanese Wreck Ship at Guam,” Los Angeles Times, December 21, 1941, 1A.
13. Associated Press, “Fight of British for Hongkong Wins Jap Praise,” Chicago Daily Tribune, December 21, 1941, 6.
14. Washington Post, “Allies Merge to Preserve Singapore,” December 21, 1941, 4.
15. Washington Post, “Allies Merge to Preserve Singapore,” December 21, 1941, 4.
16. Arthur Griffin, “Guns Over Boston,” Boston Daily Globe, December 21, 1941, B7.
17. Harry W. Hannery, “Germany Faces a Five-Year War,” Saturday Evening Post, December 20, 1941, 6.
18. Terry Goldsworthy, Valhalla’s Warriors: A History of the Waffen-SS on the Eastern Front 1941–1945 (Indianapolis, IN: Dog Ear Publishing, 2010), 231.
19. International News Service, “Capt. Kelly Gave Life to Save Flaming Bomber’s Crew of 6,” Washington Post, December 21, 1941, 1.
20. Associated Press, “Burma Road: American Flyers Down 4 Jap Planes in First Battle for Chinese,” Boston Daily Globe, December 21, 1941, A9.
21. Joseph L. Myler, “Supreme Council on War Planned,” Washington Post, December 21, 1941, 5.
22. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, “Telegram From Thurston to Hull,” December 21, 1941, Hyde Park, NY.
23. James B. Reston, “Allies Link Plans in Talks This Week,” New York Times, December 22, 1941, 1.
24. James B. Reston, “Allies Link Plans in Talks This Week,” New York Times, December 22, 1941, 1.
25. New York Times, “Spartan Days Face Us, Willkie Warns,” December 21, 1941, 13.
26. Associated Press, “Willkie Boosters Suspend for War,” Washington Post, December 22, 1941, 6.
27. Washington Post, “Martin Puts Off GOP Meetings Because of War,” December 22, 1941, 18.
28. W. H. Lawrence, “Britain-U.S. Confer,” New York Times, December 21, 1941, 1.
29. Russell Hill, “Arab Cheers Greet British at Derna,” Washington Post, December 21, 1941, 10.
30. Baltimore Sun, “McNutt Asks Nation to Conserve Its Food,” December 20, 1941, 8.
31. Associated Press, “Price of Sugar Is ‘Frozen’ at Current Level,” Chicago Daily Tribune, December 21, 1941, 1.
32. Associated Press, “Chicago Flag Trade Booms,” Washington Post, December 21, 1941, S6.
33. George Gallup, “Defense Labor Ready to Work Longer Hours,” Washington Post, December 21, 1941, B5.
34. New York Times, “Effort of States in War Expanded,” December 20, 1941, 9.
35. Gerald G. Gross, “Washington in Wartime,” Washington Post, December 21, 1941, B3.
36. Baltimore Sun, “Plants Under Control of Axis Nationals Seized,” December 20, 1941, 8.
37. Chicago Daily Tribune, “Ships, More Ships Launched to Aid U.S. War on Seas,” December 21, 1941, 3.
38. Chicago Daily Tribune, “Makers of War Needs to Work Christmas Day,” December 20, 1941, 23.
39. Jack Bell, “Criticism in Order Still, Senators Say,” Washington Post, December 21, 1941, 13.
40. Chicago Daily Tribune, “‘U.S. Will Regain Pacific Control’—Col. M’Cormick,” December 21, 1941, 4.
41. Chic
ago Daily Tribune, “Japanese Tricks,” December 21, 1941, 14.
42. Boston Daily Globe, “There’s No Better Gift Than an Album of Columbia Records,” December 21, 1941, C8.
43. Washington Post, “Gay Caroling Ushers in Christmas Week,” December 22, 1941, 6.
44. Leithbridge Herald (Alberta, Canada) “How Would You Like to Bomb Germany?” December 22, 1941, 2.
45. Washington Post, “Board Selects ‘Citizen Kane’ As Best Movie of the Year,” December 22, 1941, 7.
46. Chicago Daily Tribune, “Buy Defense Bonds,” December 21, 1941, 14.
47. Chicago Daily Tribune, “350 Licenses to Wed Issued in Day, A Record,” December 21, 1941, 16.
48. Lethbridge Herald (Alberta, Canada) “Christmas Mail Sets Record,” December 22, 1941, 6.
49. Associated Press, “Son Is Not Dead, Navy Apologizes; Gloom Vanishes,” Boston Daily Globe, December 21, 1941, A9.
50. United Press, “Navy to Give Yule Leave to All of Its Recruits,” New York Times, December 21, 1941, 13.
51. Washington Evening Star, “Admiral King New Chief of U.S. Fleet,” December 20, 1941, 1.
52. Associated Press, “Air Man Given New Navy Post; Outranks Stark,” Boston Daily Globe, December 21, 1941, C1.
53. Marshall Andrews, “New Head Noted for Strategy; Ingersoll Gets Atlantic Post,” Washington Post, December 21, 1941, 1.
54. Marshall Andrews, “New Head Noted for Strategy; Ingersoll Gets Atlantic Post,” Washington Post, December 21, 1941, 1.
55. Gerald G. Gross, “Washington in Wartime,” Washington Post, December 21, 1941, B3.
CHAPTER 22: THE TWENTY-SECOND OF DECEMBER
1. Washington Post, “Biddle Appoints Alien Enemy Board for D.C.,” December 21, 1941, 18.
2. Washington Post, “Biddle Appoints Alien Enemy Board for D.C.,” December 21, 1941, 18.
3. New York Times, “Hawaii Holds 273 as 5th Columnists,” December 22, 1941, 4.
4. Washington Post, “Enemy Aliens,” December 22, 1941, 12.
5. New York Times, “The Slanting Eye,” December 22, 1941, 16.
6. New York Times, “Gun Battle Routs Coast Saboteurs,” December 22, 1941, 3.
7. Los Angeles Times, “Car Believed Used by Gunmen Against Soldiers Located,” December 22, 1941, A1.
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