Passing Parade: F.D.R.’s war plans

Nelson A. Pryor: Guest Columnist  The blueprint for President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s plans for getting the U.S.A. involved in WWII was announced on the front page of the Chicago Tribune. Yes, on Thursday, Dec. 4, 1941, there it was, in big box car letters, the front-page headline: “FDR’s War Plans!”      As if that was not enough, the Tribune’s sister newspaper in Washington City, the Times Herald, ran a similar story the next day, for all the Capitol area. Two days later, that