{"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<p>Three days after Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, signaling the U.S. entry into war versus the Axis powers, <em>The Bates Student<\/em> headlines its Dec. 10, 1941, editorial simply: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/x46211.xml\">War<\/a>.&#8221; The editors support the call to arms and&nbsp;acknowledge the humanity-numbing prospect of war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet at the same time, they&nbsp;warn of&nbsp;war&#8217;s greatest danger:&nbsp;allowing hatred, particularly&nbsp;racial hatred, to&nbsp;consume&nbsp;the soul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;nuanced approach&nbsp;reflects the paper&#8217;s gifted editorial leadership:&nbsp;editor Ralph Tuller &#8217;42, who went on to a distinguished law career in the Boston area, passing away in 1994;&nbsp;managing editor John Donovan &#8217;42,&nbsp;who became&nbsp;the DeAlva Stanwood Alexander Professor of Government&nbsp;at Bowdoin, passing away in 1984; and Norman Boyan &#8217;43, an eminent educator who concluded his&nbsp;career as professor of education&nbsp;and&nbsp;dean of the Graduate School of Education at UC-Santa Barbara, retiring to the Santa Barbara area.<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"pageChildren\"><li class=\"page_item page-item-106\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/150-years\/months\/december\/america-enters-world-war-ii\/editorial-war\/\">Editorial: &#039;War&#039;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three days after Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, signaling the U.S. entry into&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":99,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-105","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/150-years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/150-years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/150-years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/150-years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/150-years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/150-years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2199,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/150-years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/105\/revisions\/2199"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/150-years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/150-years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}