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War Comes to Washington
Stone, I. F. | December 13, 1941 issue

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The ticker at the Press Club, normally shut off on Sunday, carried the first flash telling of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. It was a beautiful late-autumn Sunday, the sky clear and the air crisp. At the entrance to the White House a small crowd had gathered to watch Cabinet members arrive. In the reporters' room inside, a group was clustered around the radio. Soldiers in helmets, carrying guns with fixed bayonets, guarded the entrance to the War Department's half of the huge old Munitions Building. They looked awkward and uncomfortable.

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UNITED States -- Military relations; INTERNATIONAL conflict; MILITARY supplies; MILITARY promotions; PEARL Harbor (Hawaii); HAWAII; UNITED States
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