Dr. Seuss: “This mess is so big & so deep & so tall-We cannot pick it up-There is no way at all!”

[Xithras]

3. A quick note about that last one, and his anti-Japanese American cartoons.

Geisel, like many Americans, got caught up in the anti-Nisei hysteria and published a number of cartoons supporting their internment and painting them as traitors. That's an odd position, as he was otherwise a left-liberal who strongly opposed racism, but it was an echo of the era he lived in.

Geisel later regretted the cartoons and apologized for writing them. He then went a step further...Horton Hears a Who was written as an allegory about the Japanese occupation and the need to protect Japanese civilians, was originally dedicated to a Japanese friend, as was intended as an apology for his previous anti-Japanese sentiment.