In the Dark

Again war secrecy blotted the President out of sight. His brief emergence to greet Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands had been only a breather.

The President conducted a press conference composed mainly of evasions; conferred with soldiers and diplomats from the United Nations in the routine atmosphere of hush. What he was doing, where he went, what he was thinking, the public as usual was not told. Behind anonymity more complete than that of his passionately anonymous secretaries, the Cornmander in Chief wrestled with his troubles. On Dec. 9, Franklin D. Roosevelt had told the nation: "If you feel that your Government is not disclosing enough of the truth, you have every right to say so." Many U.S. citizens were saying so last week. But the President offered the people little but silence. Silently they waited, worked, wondered. They would have to get used to waiting, which is one of war's big hardships.

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