He’s a mangey, wangey traitor, he shoots men right in their backs. He’s a nastey, wastey demon, and he plays a devil’s part, He’s a tearin’ up our country, and he’s tearin’ us apart. In vast schemes of devilish pastimes, that just tears our hearts in two. He’s become the devil’s playmate, and is now his handy tool. He’s the world’s most awful bounder, and he’s just a scratchy rash. It read: “Mary Eames, York Writer, Composes Two War Songs.” The title and lyrics of the first song caught my eye: To Hell With Hitler now! There’s a demon over yonder, with a funny black mustache. Local author and composer Mary Eames was no different, as outlined in my recent York Sunday News column below: York woman wrote World War II songs As often happens, I was researching another subject on the newspaper microfilms at the York County History Center when I noticed an article on the entertainment page of the JGazette and Daily.
So, it is no surprise that individuals wanted to contribute their talents in whatever way they could. Navy and Air Force started to provide escorts to ships carrying those items across the Atlantic. In March 1941, President Roosevelt approved the Lend-Lease Act, which “permitted the lending, leasing, selling, or bartering of arms, ammunition and food to ‘any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the US.’” Soon thereafter, the U.S. The York Plan of cooperative war material manufacturing was up and running and declared a success and a plan to be emulated by early 1941. The United States didn’t officially enter World War II until December 1941, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, but it was already on everyone’s mind.
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