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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1941
Page
4
A Tucson woman foresees how Pearl Harbor and Hawaii’s attack on December 7 has warped Christmas greetings. The piece laments Japanese aggression and Nazi influence, urging national unity and a crusade-like response with patriotic resolve and remembrance of Oahu.
A new sense of oneness with our southern neighbors and Mexico follows President Avila Camacho’s pledge after the United States declared war on Japan. He urges democracy, loyalty, and cooperation, calling for vigilance, production, and obedience by Mexicans abroad to defend the Americas.
The essay discusses the difficulty of proving birth details with legal evidence. It notes 60 million Americans lack birth records, cites family Bibles and various records such as baptismal, insurance, cradle rolls, church, hospital, school, census, marriage licenses, and military discharge as potential proofs, and highlights the challenge for older adults in job verification and identity confirmation.
Amid news of Japan's attack on Hawaii, Arizona youths rush to enlist at Army Navy and Marine recruiting stations. About 50 University of Arizona students reported to Davis Monthan air base. half qualified for tests. The piece lauds patriotic zeal and mentions selective service framing democratic war-making, with tongue in cheek asides about rationing and quirks of wartime enthusiasm.
Drew Pearson and Robert Allen recount top officials grappling with the Hawaii attack. President Roosevelt faces questions about readiness as Connally and Knox clash over naval failures. An Annapolis clique and Admiral Anderson’s ascent draw scrutiny amid calls for accountability.
Arthur Baer laments overtracking abbreviations in history and warns against replacing clear narrative with alphabet soup. He recalls US military history from the monitor and Merrimac to Anthony Wayne, arguing America invented much while criticizing modern overformalization and European systems infiltrating discourse.
The theater world curiosity of pasted telegrams on dressing room walls reveals how actors cope with opening night pressures. Cornelia Otis Skinner, star of Theater at the Hudson, recalls 95 telegrams including jokes about Admiral Byrd and early marriage confessions, as well as messages from former colleagues and a playful note about an alley cat understudy. A parallel piece notes a ballad of dead fruit at the Museum of Modern Art.
A critique surveys Salvador Dali works including Apparition of a Face and a Fruit Dish on a Beach and Imperial Violets. It interprets surreal imagery as confrontations with decay and modern civilization, noting a beach scene, overturned urn portraits, and a telephon e in a dish amid fish. The discussion links Sleep to boundless dream crime and questions the meaning behind Dali’s troubling symbols.
Southeast Air Corps News recounts a comical scene at Mitchel Field where a bewildered recruit asks for extra Post Exchange coupons after already using his allowance. He laments high meals, wondering why the squadron mess doesn’t offer free meals, highlighting wartime price concerns and frugal habits among air corps personnel.
A condensed excerpt from a 1922 William Allen White quotation arguing that reason sustains a nation and state, while force and oppression create wrecks. It emphasizes diverse, peaceful ways to express truth, including voice, postal card, letter, or press.
Washington Dec 12 hope for a quick end to the war fades as military experts warn a long hard struggle may last three or four years. Few expect Berlin and Tokyo to collapse without defeat, and some believe Russia could do Hitler in. Most predict victory not before 1945-46 and stress patience while fronts remain unrevealed.
The navy ended blanket secrecy after the Salinas tanker encounter with a Nazi sub. Prompt accounts were given, though no official announcement followed. I D R sought more publicity for depth charge actions but not a constant splash of press. Hitler faces trouble seizing French bases, then fighting to hold them as British fleet dominates Mediterranean.
Eye notes from Spain warn of potential Nazi aggression. The article suggests Der Fuehrer would prefer Mediterranean naval bases over French Africa and cites diplomatic pouches as sources of emerging information.
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