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Three weeks ago, according to James S. Twohey's survey of newspaper opinion, 79% of U.S. editors demanded that the 40-hour week be scrapped for the duration. Some editors even came out simultaneously for a profit incentive for industry while arguing that, for labor, patriotism should be incentive enough. For every half-dozen editorials declaring that labor must make sacrifices, only one said that all citizens must share the load alike...
Just before the U.S. press began to sing a diapason of approval for the U.S. declaration of war-in the week that closed the night before Pearl Harbor-interventionist sentiment in the press had slumped to its lowest point since last spring. According to the survey of James S. Twohey Associates it stood at 54%-as against 84% eleven weeks earlier...
Those editors who were too lightheartedly interventionist have apparently begun to think twice. Six weeks ago interventionist sentiment in the press (measured by James S. Twohey Associates) reached an all-time high of 84%. Then war began to look imminent. The Greer was shot at, the Kearny was hit by a torpedo, U.S. destroyers were reported hunting U-boats and dropping depth charges. In five weeks' interventionist sentiment dropped...
This week begins a crisis in the affairs of the U.S.-an attempt to modify the Neutrality Act in Congress, coinciding with popular fears that Russia may fall. The chart below, based on the newspaper analysis of James S. Twohey Associates, tells graphically how similar crises have affected press sentiment in recent months...
...Twohey figures tell the story of typical editorial reactions. The events which sent interventionist sentiment up, sent isolationist sentiment down and vice versa. Whenever the President took a firm stand or a firm step, sentiment for intervention and more aid to Britain rose sharply. Whenever there was talk of the closeness of war or of other unpleasant things such as low Army morale, isolationist sentiment rose...