Steve Nelson wrote:
"..nearly 150,000..jammed the municipal airport to see man's latest weapon to blow other men and women to pieces."
"The crowd which had at the airport Sunday morning to wait for the bomber was out for a thrill, but the thirll it recieved was different from what it anticipated. Its faces mirrored the change from high good humor, to a more sober, pit-of-the-stomach realization that the plane was not a bright, romantic vehicle of the clouds, but rather an ugly, terribly efficient instrument of death."
Yep..no bias or agenda there...
I work for the so-called "liberal media," but that even strikes me as slanted! But I suppose it reflects the isolationism of the US at the time, and the reluctance to get involved in another "European" bloodbath.
Great pics, though!
SN
My thoughts are in agreement with yours, that the commentary in the article isn't part of a liberal anti-war slant as much as it was more from a conservative isolationist slant. In March 1941 war was something that was happening across the oceans and a plane like a B-24 (or LB-30) was perceived as an instrument to draw us into that war. Thankfully, there were people in important places who made sure that the assembly lines were underway for planes like the B-24 and B-17, because in 8 1/2 months after this article was written, we were going to need every single one of them.
It is, though, interesting to read that article in the context of our own times.
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