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Westbrook Pegler got into the act with a pious statement of un-Peglerian mildness: "It is a great tragedy that in this awful hour the people of the U.S. must accept . . . the nasty malice of a President whom Bernard Baruch . . . called a rude, uncouth, ignorant man. Let us pray."
Critic Hume was the only one concerned who seemed to have kept his head. Said he: "I can only say that a man suffering the loss of a close friend [Press Secretary Charles G. Ross] and carrying the terrible burden of the present world crisis ought to be indulged in an occasional outburst of temper."