Michael's 1941 Blog

WILL MEN AND WOMEN BE DRAFTED? Not for combat, of course, but Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey says that "we undoubtedly are soon going to ...

"THE NEWS HAS ALL BEEN BAD." In his Tuesday night talk, President Roosevelt made no attempt to sugar-coat the extent of our defea...

ROOSEVELT TO SPEAK TONIGHT. In case you haven’t yet heard, President Roosevelt will address the nation tonight at 10 o’clock Eastern time. ...

THE AIR RAID ON PEARL HARBOR. So much for the guesswork this past week over whether a Japanese strike in the South Pacific would lead to a ...

AN EVENTFUL WEEK-END. Until this morning it looked like the big news of the week-end would be Britain’s declaration of war on Finland (alon...

JAPAN’S TOUGH NEW CABINET. If Japan-watchers are looking for any sign of hope in the fall of Prince Konoye’s cabinet, they can give up for ...

BULGARIA JOINS THE AXIS. The lead sentence in the  Washington Post’s  lead story yesterday summed things up with dramatic simplicity -- ...