Admission

The first overt act by Germany against the U.S. in World War II was the torpedoing of the freighter Robin Moor, six months before Pearl Harbor. The sinking brought a burning rebuke from Franklin Roosevelt, touched off new verbal skyrockets in the already explosive isolationist-interventionist debate. North Dakota's Senator Nye "guessed" that the British had sunk her--then hastily retracted. For obvious reasons, Germany kept mum.

Last week for no apparent reason, Radio Berlin finally admitted the attack. Settled, once & for all, was the question of who fired the first shot.

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