ABSTRACT
With the nation at war the old arguments over intervention became irrelevant. Isolationists were now apostles of total victory. War orders flowed into long-silent factories, the jobless went back to work, and the pessimistic drift of the thirties gave way to a national enthusiasm and sense of purpose. Declaring that the entire coast must be considered a combat zone under special rules, Lippmann suggested that, as on the deck of a warship, "everyone should be compelled to prove that he has a good reason for being there." While the Japanese attack brought America into the war, Europe remained the primary theater of operations and the focus of Lippmann's attention. Impressed from the beginning, Lippmann found in De Gaulle what he had always sought in a leader: a man of action who was also an intellectual, a political strategist with a sense of history and a vision of the future a man who incarnated the qualities of his people.
