{"id":105,"date":"2010-03-22T18:21:03","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T18:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/150years\/december-1941-america-enters-world-war-ii\/"},"modified":"2019-10-03T14:00:48","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T18:00:48","slug":"america-enters-world-war-ii","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/150-years\/months\/december\/america-enters-world-war-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"December 1941: America enters World War II"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Three days after Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, signaling the U.S. entry into war versus the Axis powers, The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Student<\/em> headlines its Dec. 10, 1941, editorial simply: “War<\/a>.” The editors support the call to arms and acknowledge the humanity-numbing prospect of war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet at the same time, they warn of war’s greatest danger: allowing hatred, particularly racial hatred, to consume the soul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The nuanced approach reflects the paper’s gifted editorial leadership: editor Ralph Tuller ’42, who went on to a distinguished law career in the Boston area, passing away in 1994; managing editor John Donovan ’42, who became the DeAlva Stanwood Alexander Professor of Government at Bowdoin, passing away in 1984; and Norman Boyan ’43, an eminent educator who concluded his career as professor of education and dean of the Graduate School of Education at UC-Santa Barbara, retiring to the Santa Barbara area.<\/p>\n\n\n