[BlackElk]

If Flynn continued his isolationist writings as editor of the New Haven Register after Pearl Harbor, that probably came as quite a surprise to his boss, John Day Jackson, the owner of that paper. I grew up in New Haven and we got the Register every day. Flynn left his books to my college. He was a fine man but utterly wrong about World War II until Pearl Harbor. My family lost my mother's brother when his destroyer was sunk by a Nazi U-boat off Sicily. That was bad luck for my uncle and for the family but we NEVER questioned the worthiness of the cause in which he was lost. The New Haven Register, edited by John Flynn, gave him quite a write-up and we have the clippings to prove it.

[inquest]

If Flynn continued his isolationist writings as editor of the New Haven Register after Pearl Harbor, that probably came as quite a surprise to his boss, John Day Jackson, the owner of that paper.

First of all, I didn't say he wrote in opposition to the war following Pearl Harbor. What he did continue to write, however, were criticisms of FDR's policy of provocation of Japan in the months leading up to the attack. I don't know for sure if he wrote them for the New Haven register - in fact, if memory serves, he wrote them as books, not newspaper columns.