One page, 8½x11. Headed pg. "30". Partially typed by Willicombe and with autograph notes by Hearst in ink.

Remarkable example of Hearst and Willicombe's "clipsheet" system of doing business, including a thoughtful response from Hearst regarding his role at the start of WWII. In this particular clipsheet, most of the response is given to a student writing a thesis on Hearst's attitudes towards WWII. Hearst states he supported the draft and influenced Congress to support the draft. In conclusion, "I think I did the right things. At least I did the best I knew. We should have kept out of the war altogether but that I could not accomplish and I only got hated and berated for my pains. However we don't mind that in the newspaper business. Its part of the game." The "clipsheet" process of doing business was described colorfully in the October 1935 Fortune Magazine: "If you are William Randolph Hearst you have not time to read all your morning telegrams, let alone your morning mail. So your supersecretary, a priceless person named Joseph Willicombe reads it for you, selects the `important' 10% and squashes each neatly phrased message into a blunt headline...Wherever you may be...you make perhaps fifteen decisions in a minute, scribbling a few words from which Joe Willicombe will write the orders of the day..."