| Show WASHINGTON MEMOS By HOWARD S. WALKER 9 Something struck the United States as this week but in where important decisions and retaliations were being the populace was only passively but mainly from Several hundred onlookers milled around the White House Sunday when President Roosevelt met with his but these people were there to the black limousines that brought statesmen to that momentous As people stood across the street in Lafayette after being forced away from the White House gates by a large corps of they were evidently more troubled about the chilly night air than they were about the conflict raging in the The magnificent Japanese embassy was the scene of slightly more emotional group of As the short Orientals calmly burned secret documents in the embassy the crowd out front booed and and one enraged patriot tossed bottles at the embassy Only comment of the embassy attaches we are all out of a too Next when President Roosevelt made one of his few trips to Capitol hill and con- gressmen cast that fateful no one could within a mile of the no matter how much they Everyone just stood at a distance and watched and waited still rather They were discussing the weather and trying to decide what sort of toys not made in they were going to buy for Junior's There was a tense as these people tried to be cheerful while inside the Congress was pawning their Some people cursed the others felt their wallets and the wallets of their up at the thought of the cost of this new while others felt sorry for the thousands of soldiers whose Christmas furloughs had been And as senators and congressmen arrived i at the Capitol for that historic session Mon- day They appeared worried but very |
