Christmas 80 Years Ago & Today

Eighty years ago this week, FDR and a visiting Churchill lighted the National Christmas Tree and attended church together at DC's Foundry Methodist.  Churchill noted it was the first time he heard the hymn "O Little Town of Bethlehem." The world's dictators, whose domains stretched from Spain to Japan, celebrated the season differently, plotting conquest and mass murder.  Nazi armies were outside Moscow, where Stalin was fighting for survival.  Japan was solidifying conquest of East Asia.  Hong Kong surrendered on Christmas Day. Mussolini's forces were fighting the British in Italian occupied Libya.