The U.S. press showed last week that it found the attack by hated Hitler on hated Stalin just as confusing and emotionally disturbing as it was to most ordinary citizens. The effect was to make the press considerably less interventionist.
Last spring James S. Twohey Associates, analysts of newspaper opinion, calculated that upwards of 65% of the U.S. press plumped for more aid to Britain and attacked isolationists. Last week, presumably upset by the spectacle of Germany fighting Russia, some 20% of the press had not changed sides but gone to sit on the fence. This left only 53% of the press...
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