Mrs. Gunn's Diary: Jan. 26, 1942

She makes plans to direct a play; Helen Keller touches FDR's face, hands

Pearl Harbor was far from Mrs. Gunn’s mind today, though it continued to fill news columns as the finger-pointing over the Roberts Commission report began. She and her friend Peg went to a meeting, probably of the Chevy Chase Women’s Club, and began planning some entertainments. “We are working on a costume song number,” she wrote. “I have also promised to coach a play or farce so I will be busy for the next few weeks.”

Meanwhile, from a congressional tribute to General MacArthur to how the White House would cope with sugar rationing, the war dominated the news. The cartoon above, showing Supreme Court Associate Justice Roberts giving the bitter medicine of his commission’s findings on Pearl Harbor to Uncle Sam, appeared in today’s Evening Star.

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