The death of President Franklin Roosevelt (4-12-45)

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Roosevelt aims to be realized, leaders state

Death called loss for world freedom
By the United Press

The world’s and the nation’s leaders mourned today the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt but voiced confidence that his aims – complete victory over the Axis and a just and lasting peace – will be achieved.

Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister, in a message to Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt:

I send my most profound sympathy in your grievous loss. It is also the loss of the British nation and the cause of freedom in every land.

Soviet Marshal Joseph Stalin:

The government of the Soviet Union expresses its sincere sympathy to the American people in their great loss and their conviction that the policy of friendship between the great powers who have shouldered the main burden of war against a common enemy will continue to develop in the future.

Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek:

I am convinced the American people and Roosevelt’s successor will finish his uncompleted task.

Thomas E. Dewey, Governor of New York:

In building boldly for the future peace of the world, even as the war progressed, Franklin Roosevelt made his final and perhaps his greatest contribution… All people of good will, with equal determination, will do their part in bringing to final success the work of the United Nations in establishing the foundation for a just and lasting peace.

Herbert Hoover, former President:

The nation sorrows at the passing of its President. Whatever differences there may have been, they end in regrets of death. It is fortunate that in this great crisis of war our armies and navies are under such magnificent leadership that we shall not hesitate. While we mourn Mr. Roosevelt’s death, we shall march forward.

James F. Byrnes, former director of the Office of War Mobilization:

I am sure that the sacrifice of his life will prove an inspiration to the statesmen of all nations to bring about the fulfillment of his dream that the mothers of this world should never again be called upon to offer up their sons as sacrifices to the god of war.

Harry Hopkins, former Secretary of Commerce and close friend of Mr. Roosevelt:

The people all over the country and indeed all over the world will mourn with you [Mrs. Roosevelt] tonight He was so gallant and brave.

Gen. Charles de Gaulle, Provisional President of France:

At least the decisive successes to which he so powerfully contributed will have given him the certainty of victory before he succumbed at his post. He leaves to the world an undying example and an essential message. This message will be heard.

Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr.:

He, more than any one person, is responsible, in my opinion, for the successful conduct of this terrible war against the aggressor nations.

Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes:

President Roosevelt has died for us.

Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg (R-Michigan), an outstanding critic of Mr. Roosevelt’s domestic policies:

A successful peace must be his monument.

Edward Martin, Governor of Pennsylvania:

All of us must give to Vice President Truman every ounce of strength and energy which we possess to assist in carrying on the great task which is yet unfinished.

Methodist Bishop G. Bromley, president of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America:

The world is now Ready, if it follows on in his spirit and wisdom, to possess the promised land of the Four Freedoms.

Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein, president of the Synagogue Council of America:

In the death of President Roosevelt, the world lost its first citizen, the United States its greatest American and Jewry one of its staunchest friends.

Earl Browder, president of the Communist Political Association:

We must complete his task as he would have it done.

Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Felix de Laquerica:

All Spain senses the deepest possible sorrow at the death of a man whose disappearance is an irreparable loss, not only for his own country but for the entire world.

Frank Hague, Mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey:

The President, by ceaseless work, gave his life for his country as surely as though he died on the battlefield.

Edward J. Kelly, Mayor of Chicago:

I am sure that our Commander-in-Chief would want every American citizen to continue in the great fight to preserve civilization which he has waged with our allies during these war years.

Winthrop W. Aldrich, chairman of the Chase National Bank:

It is doubly tragic at this time because of the overwhelming influence his leadership would have exercised in the post-war world.

Most Rev. Francis J. Spellman, Catholic archbishop of New York:

Our President has taken his place among the gallant dead who have made our nation consecrate and it falls upon us, the living, to preserve this nation in fulfillment of our sacred debt to all our martyred dead.

Former Secretary of State Cordell Hull:

No greater tragedy could have befallen our country and the world at this time.

Fleet Adm. Ernest J. King:

The U.S. Navy mourns the loss of a great, good and gifted leader.

Gen. George C. Marshall:

His far-seeing vision in military counsel has been a constant source of courage to all of us who have worked side by side with him from the dark days of war’s beginning.

Sen. Robert A. Taft (R-Ohio):

He dies a hero of the war.

Associate Supreme Court Justice Frank Murphy:

When tyranny stalked the civilized world, he challenged it with imagination and matchless vigor.

James A. Farley, former Postmaster General:

Words are inadequate… to properly express my sorrow.

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Nazis continue vilification of Roosevelt even in death

Abusive Berlin tirade shocks even the Japs, who concede President was ‘great man’

LONDON (UP) – The Nazis burst the last bounds of decency today and continued a vilification of President Roosevelt – even in death.

German propagandists gloated openly over the President’s death. They poured out an abusive tirade that shocked the rest of the world, perhaps even Japan.

While the Japs joined with the Germans in accusing Mr. Roosevelt of causing the present war, Tokyo conceded at least the President was a “great man.”

But Berlin’s commentaries heaped abuse upon the President’s memory.

Called war’s ‘inventor’

One commentator, in a speech which was apparently written by Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, said that the miracle which had saved Adolf Hitler had killed the “inventor of this war.”

The commentator was Wilfred von Ofen, one of Berlin’s best. But expert listeners said his remarks did not follow his usual tone and that they were termed much after the way Goebbels writes.

The broadcast was unusual in that Von Ofen spoke in the first person. It broke all rules and it appeared obvious that Goebbels was directing the “hate” program against Mr. Roosevelt’s name.

‘Deep satisfaction’

“It is for me, who believes in justice of fate, a deep satisfaction to witness the fact that this man, himself chiefly responsible for this second World War, does not himself survive it,” Von Ofen said. “I have never more firmly than at this moment believed in Divine justice.”

He added that a Divine miracle saved Hitler during the July 20 attempt on his life “but it struck down the other mercilessly and justly by sudden, unexpected death.”

The Jap admission was in direct contrast to the reaction in Berlin, where the news of the President’s death reached the German capital while it was undergoing an Allied air raid.

Lack official comment

While official German quarters declined to comment, one Berlin radio commentator said Mr. Roosevelt would go down in history “as the man on whose drive the present war has expanded to a second World War.”

“He was the most expensive President of the United States who above all achieved one thing – to lift in his own camp the strongest competitor into saddle: The Bolshevist Soviet Union,” the German commentator said.

Japs pay tribute

The Japs paid tribute to Mr. Roosevelt’s position in world affairs and his place in history. When news of the death reached the Jap capital, Tokyo radio interrupted a program of prisoner of war messages and announced: “We now introduce a few minutes of special music to honor the passing of this great man.”

A Jap commentator later described Mr. Roosevelt as “the symbol of American imperialism, a mixed phenomenon of the contemporary type.”

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British fear blow to security plans

Cabinet called – Eden to attend funeral

LONDON (UP) – Prime Minister Churchill called the British cabinet into special session today to consider the effect of President Roosevelt’s death, which many diplomats feared might have grave repercussions on world security plans.

Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden was named to represent the British government at Mr. Roosevelt’s funeral.

Mr. Churchill and King George led the British in paying tribute to Mr. Roosevelt. For the first time in history the House of Commons adjourned in observance of the death of an American President.

Eight-minute meeting

Commons met for eight minutes, heard Mr. Churchill speak briefly but feelingly, and adjourned. When it reconvenes next Tuesday, Mr. Churchill is expected to offer a traditional motion expressing sympathy to the King on the death of “his cousin” – the time-honored designation of the head of a great and friendly state.

Amid the mourning for Mr. Roosevelt, the realization persisted that the “Big Three” is dead with him. Diplomats felt that the peculiar personal type of negotiations of the Roosevelt-Churchill-Stalin triumvirate had passed away.

Whitehall and Allied government offices in London were filled with wonder at what would happen now.

Truman almost unknown

President Truman is virtually unknown in Britain. There was a fear born of uncertainty that he might be unable to get world security organization proposals through the U.S. Senate.

As one Allied government diplomat put it, “Everybody here rejoiced when Mr. Roosevelt was reelected, because we felt we knew what American policy would be for the next four years. But now we are confused.”

A high official of the Polish Foreign Office called the United Press today and asked, “Who will be the real power behind American foreign policy now?”

Mr. Churchill told Commons that Mr. Roosevelt’s “friendship for the cause of freedom and for the causes of the weak and poor won him immortal renown.”

Earlier, Mr. Churchill had cabled Mrs. Roosevelt that the President’s death was a “loss to the British nation and the cause of freedom in every land.”

King sends cable

King George cabled Mrs. Roosevelt that he and Queen Elizabeth were “deeply grieved and shocked” by news of the President’s death.

The British royal court suspended all activities for one week.

All the morning newspapers carried front-page editorials praising Mr. Roosevelt. Special editions were rushed to the streets at 1 a.m.

In Red Cross Clubs, public announcements were made – most of them twice, because nobody believed it the first time.

Telegram to Truman

King George sent a telegram to President Truman saying that his sorrow “will be shared by all my peoples who have long since felt that under President Roosevelt’s wise and understanding leadership problems of war and of the peace that is to follow were in the hands of one who had proved himself, in so signal a manner, to have at heart the welfare of mankind.”

It is especially grievous that at this moment, when forces of the Allies are bringing to a close the evil which has for so long overshadowed the continent of Europe, the knowledge and wise counsel of President Roosevelt should be taken from us…

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Stamp collector role retained by Roosevelt

WARM SPRINGS, Georgia (UP) – President Roosevelt was an enthusiastic stamp collector to the end.

White House Secretary William D. Hassett said the last direction he received from Mr. Roosevelt yesterday morning concerned the purchase of some stamps for his collection.

The President told Mr. Bassett he wanted to buy some of the San Francisco United Nations Conference commemorative issue which goes on sale April 25. And the President said he wanted to buy them from the San Francisco postmaster.

Medal of Honor urged for Roosevelt

DETROIT (UP) – Congressional bestowal of the Medal of Honor to the late Franklin D. Roosevelt was proposed editorially today by the Detroit News.

The News said:

He was as truly a war casualty as any man who stepped into a withering fire at Iwo or the beaches of Anzio or Normandy. And let us here, in all reverence, propose that the Congress of the United States vote him posthumously the highest award for valor in its gift, the Medal of Honor.

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Simms: Other nations to feel loss of Roosevelt

Was best known of U.S. Presidents
By William Philip Simms, Scripps-Howard foreign editor

WASHINGTON – The impact of President Roosevelt’s death on the governments and peoples of foreign lands will be scarcely less shocking than it was here at home. Abroad, he was known as no other American President ever was.

This is not only because he served more than three terms. It is because, long before World War II, he took his stand against Hitler and the Nazi-Fascist gang and called on America and the world to “quarantine” aggressor nations.

Throughout the Western Hemisphere, Mr. Roosevelt’s name stands for the Good Neighbor Policy. It is inextricably associated with the Atlantic Charter, today the beacon light of small nations everywhere. And his Four Freedoms have been translated into every tongue.

British favored him

In England, prior toa the last elections, I found the British government and the people alike overwhelmingly for Mr. Roosevelt. They had nothing against Gov. Thomas E. Dewey or the Republican Party. They were for Mr. Roosevelt, they told me, because they felt they knew him and liked him.

That was a typical bit of British understatement, however. For, to the British, Mr. Roosevelt was America. Somehow to them he was pretty much the whole war effort.

Hadn’t he aided Britain long before the shooting began at Pearl Harbor? Hadn’t he sent American weapons to England after Dunkirk? Hadn’t he traded 50 destroyers to Britain in exchange for some bases in the Atlantic?

Lend-Lease cited

To the British, Mr. Roosevelt was also Lend-Lease. He was the American Army, the American Navy and the American Air Force. They knew that to him, this war was not an American war, a British war, a Soviet war or a Chinese war, but a vast global conflict in which only two armies are at grips: The Allied army and the army of the enemies of mankind.

And they knew that Mr. Roosevelt had only one aim and that was to utilize all Allied men and ships and gun and tanks, planes, money, food and equipment wherever it would do the most good. Mr. Roosevelt made America “the arsenal of democracy” – another phrase with which his name will go down in the histories of foreign countries.

Wonder about changes

And what Mr. Roosevelt was to the British, he was to most other peoples the world over – except those of enemy countries. So, his sudden passing will not only be a tremendous shock to them but to their capitals as well. They will all be wondering what, if any, material changes will be made in his policies.

None of the Allies, of course, has any doubt that the United States will remain in the war to the very last. Or that it will continue to back the Dumbarton Oaks plan for international security after the war. One of President Truman’s first acts, after being sworn in, was to confirm that the San Francisco Conference would be held as scheduled, April 25.

But an American President, foreign capitals know, wields more power than any other one man on earth. And no two men are exactly like. They cannot help being anxious, therefore, to know whether the new man in the White House will put on the brakes a little, or go farther and faster along the road traveled by his predecessor.

Met with leaders

Moreover, in the international field there are bound to be many things – some perhaps of grave importance – about which the late President knew but which no other American does, at least not in such detail.

The first of our Presidents to make extensive journeys abroad in his official capacity, Mr. Roosevelt met again and again with Prime Minister Churchill, Marshal Stalin, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, Gen. de Gaulle and other world figures.

Together they discussed affairs of state and reached understandings even involving the future peace. Because of the war, much of this necessarily was carried on in the greatest secrecy. It will be difficult for President Truman to pick up and carry on.

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Perkins: Murray, Hillman are told at their press conference

CIO president resumes statement about PAC and then tells of the ‘very bad news’
By Fred W. Perkins, Pittsburgh Press staff writer

WASHINGTON – CIO President Philip Murray and Sidney Hillman, the labor leaders generally credited with mobilizing the margin of votes that won Franklin D. Roosevelt’s fourth election, were holding a press conference when news of the President’s death came.

They were completing an explanation of expansion and intensification of the CIO Political Action Committee work.

Several men entered Mr. Murray’s office. Among them were youthful “Jim” Carey, CIO secretary-treasurer, and C B. “Beany” Baldwin, former aide to Henry A. Wallace and now CIO-PAC manager. They whispered to Mr. Murray.

Fails to change expression

Nothing in the CIO president’s usually serious face indicated he had just heard of an event which must have affected him deeply.

He resumed his explanation of the CIO-PAC announcement.

Then he said, “Some very bad news has just come to me, some very bad news. It is that the President is dead.”

The press conference quickly broke up. Reporters asked Mr. Hillman for a comment.

Withholds comment

“No, no,” he pleaded. “Not now, please.”

His grief was obvious.

The main item of the CIO-PAC expansion program, as adopted by the CIO Executive Board, provides for establishment of Political Action Committees by each state and city industrial council. Thus, the organization is pointed toward activity in municipal and state, as well as congressional and presidential, contests.

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Eisenhower orders 30-day G.I. mourning

All flags in France at half-staff

PARIS (UP) – Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered a 30-day mourning period for U.S. troops throughout the European Theater today in memory of President Roosevelt.

Gen. Eisenhower flashed back the order to Supreme Headquarters from the front, where he was conferring with his generals on the final phases of the Battle of Germany.

The battle was drawing to the end long ago envisioned by President Roosevelt. And it was under the direction of the man he picked to be supreme commander on the Western Front.

News spreads rapidly

Word of the death of the President spread rapidly through Supreme Headquarters and Paris, leaving sadness and grief in its wake.

Gen. Charles de Gaulle, Provisional President of France, cabled President Truman that the French government learned of Mr. Roosevelt’s death with “great emotion and deep sadness.”

He ordered flags lowered to half-staff throughout France.

In the cabarets, at the Red Cross Rainbow Corner and along the boulevards swarming with khaki the reaction was heartfelt.

Band silenced

At fashionable Ciro’s, the band was silenced and the leader read a brief announcement of Mr. Roosevelt’s death. All Allied troops left immediately.

A tank brigade sergeant on furlough tried to get through to his commanding officer to arrange to return to the front.

“I voted for him four times for President,” he said. “Since I can’t vote for him a fifth time, the least I can do is to go back up there and fight for him.”

At the Scube Hotel, headquarters of war correspondents assigned to Supreme Headquarters, a klaxon sounded three blasts – the signal reserved for major announcements. Then an officer read a United Press flash reporting the death.

‘He was a real guy’

Dumbfounded, sad-eyed American soldiers clustered about the radio in the Rainbow Corner’s big reception hall seeking further details.

Cpl. Joseph Koval of Boonton, New Jersey, was closest to the radio when the first flash was broadcast.

He leaped from his chair and screamed, “Good God, the President’s dead!”

“He was a real guy,” Sgt. Larry Buzin of Elizabeth, New Jersey, said. “We never had a guy like him.”

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Phones jammed

WASHINGTON – The announcement of President Roosevelt’s death flooded the Washington Telephone Company with the greatest “sudden peak” load of calls in recent years. Both local and long-distance circuits were swamped.

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Latin America decrees mourning

Government building flags at half-mast
By the United Press

The death of President Roosevelt was mourned through Latin America today.

Official periods of mourning were decreed, business and schools closed in cities and flags on government buildings were flown at half-mast.

In Brazil, President Getulio Vargas ordered three days of official mourning beginning today.

National mourning was decreed in Argentina by President Edelmiro Farrell and a funeral service was planned in the Buenos Aires cathedral.

Embassy flags lowered

The Cuban cabinet ordered three days of mourning beginning today.

Peru’s President Manuel Prado and Foreign Minister Manuel Gallagher cabled condolences to President Harry Truman and Secretary of State Edward Stettinius.

Banks and stores closed at Managua, Nicaragua, when the large flag on the U.S. Embassy building was lowered to half-mast, confirming reports of the death. The government declared eight days of mourning.

Play religious music

Radio stations in Chile went silent or played solemn religious music last night following news of the death.

In San Juan, Puerto Rico, nightclubs and public entertainment closed for the weekend in respect to the memory of President Roosevelt.

Dutch Guiana flags were lowered in Paramaribo to half-mast today.

In Caracas, Venezuela, the semi-official newspaper El Tiempo declared in an extra edition last night that “the greatest champion of democracy is dead.”

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Truman friends in two groups

War pals, party workers are cronies

WASHINGTON (UP) – The “Men Closest to the President” at the start of the Truman administration fall into two principal categories – cronies of World War I and old-line Democratic Party workers.

If the new President decides to make many changes in the White House official family – and he may not because of the war – the men whom he picks to help him guide the nation’s destiny probably will come from among those two groups.

Politically, President Truman is 100 percent a Democratic Party man.

War buddies are closest

Personally, he has many friends but those of whom he speaks with the greatest affection are the men with whom he served im the last war.

One of them, Col. Harry Vaughn, is probably the closest friend of them all. Col. Vaughn, who also is a veteran of the present war, has been military aide to Mr. Truman since he became Vice President last January.

Mr. Truman keeps up an active correspondence with many of the others. One of his proudest possessions is a dog-eared black notebook in which he keeps the names and addresses of those friends. He says that it lists every surviving member of the field artillery battery which he commanded “and I can tell you a story about every one of them by just glancing through and picking out the names.”

Hannegan is pal

His devotion to the Democratic Party stems from his introduction to politics as a young member of the Pendergast machine in Kansas City more than 20 years ago.

Probably his closest friend within the party is Democratic National Chairman Robert E. Hannegan, who engineered his nomination to the vice presidency at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago last July.

Although the presidency carries with it leadership of the party, Mr. Truman can be expected to leave the purely political matters in the hands of men like Bob Hannegan and Sam Wear, Democratic State Chairman of Missouri.

Within the party, his closest friends include New Dealers and old-line conservatives alike. The conservatives are in a majority.

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Pacific Fleet plans memorial services

GUAM (UP) – The officers and men of the U.S. Pacific Fleet will pay a wartime tribute to their late Commander-in-Chief.

Memorial services will be held on all ships and stations, where war conditions permit, on the day of the President’s funeral. Colors will fly at half-mast for 30 days. But mourning badges will not be worn nor salutes fired because of the war.

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Othman: The White House

By Fred Othman

WASHINGTON – As word of President Roosevelt’s death spread through Washington, hundreds of people gathered bareheaded on Pennsylvania Avenue to stare silently through the dusk at the tulip-bordered White House across the street.

Seven big limousines were parked helter-skelter under the portico, where the paint was scabrous, because the President had ruled no redecorating would be done during the war.

Sad-faced Secret Service agents and uniformed police patrolled the grounds, whio;le a constant stream of disbelieving newspapers reports, photographers, and newsreel men besieged the executive offices.

The cameramen gathered on the freshly-green lawns waiting to photograph Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone, who hurried to the White House to sweat in Vice President Harry S. Truman as the Chief Executive.

Inside the office, a drawn-faced Steve Early – close friend and longtime presidential secretary – told the press of Mr. Truman’s immediate plans. With deep circles under his eyes, and his loud-splashed tie askew. Early told how Mr. Truman hoped “to carry on.”

Press room a madhouse

Mr. Early was so distraught that he talked as though he were dictating to his secretary, saying “period” and “comma” as he went along.

The White House press room, meantime, was a madhouse. A dozen phones rang at once, while others were busy as reporters dictated descriptions of the White House and its occupants.

Startled stenographers in the White House executive wing did not, themselves, learn of the President’s death until many minutes after it had been flashed by the news services to newspapers and radio stations.

Slowly it sank in. The hints of tears began to show in the eyes of men and women alike.

A United Press reporter, the fist to reach the White House as the news was being telephoned to press offices, asked the women in Press Secretary Jonathan Daniels’ office for details.

“We don’t know what has happened,” one of them sobbed. “We just don’t know what has happened.”

A dozen telephones rang steadily as the inquiries poured in.

Policeman gives press a jolt

Movie cameramen climbed up on the shining surface of the great, round mahogany table in the main lobby, lit their portable klieg lights, and photographed the only thing to photograph – the hoard of perspiring reporters jammed around the door to the cabinet room.

The radio networks set up their microphones. The moviemen strewed their machinery through the public rooms.

“Gentlemen, please,” cried a White House usher as a maze of cable and storage batteries were strewn across the black-and-white checked marble floors.

The secretary called out representatives of the three press associations to witness the swearing in of the new President. The other reporters, by now numbering perhaps 200, jammed chest-to-back in the corridors, straining to see. But they couldn’t see anything.

The cabinet members paced out slowly into the halls, perspiring in the intense heat.

The uniformed policeman on the door gave the press something of a mental jolt when he said: “The President has gone to the Main House with Mrs. Truman.”

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Damn… even the communists are expressing sympathy.

No statements from Tojo?

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White House is the climax –
Fate’s strange quirks dot Truman career

Success attributed to staunch loyalty

KANSAS CITY, Missouri – Fate has slipped strange quirks into the political career of Harry S. Truman but it played the climactic card last night when he was sworn in as President of the United States.

Mr. Truman’s success and his rapid rise in the world of politics is attributed to his loyalty to superiors. First it was faithful support of Tom Pendergast, long-time political boss of Missouri and that loyalty, continued when Pendergast’s machine was broken and the leader sent to prison.

In Washington, Mr. Truman was one of President Roosevelt’s strongest supporters. He was staunchly behind Roosevelt policies throughout his stay in the Senate.

Now he is thrust into the job of supplying the leadership to make those plans a reality. Instead of a loyal follower, he now is the leader.

Remains ‘Harry’

An affable little man who didn’t even want to be Vice President and who demands that he remain “Harry” to folks who know him – that’s the 32nd President of the United States.

When Harry S. Truman left his seat in the Senate to become Vice President, he made it plain to newspapermen that he didn’t want his new job to “make any difference.” And those who know him say that still goes, even though he is now President of the United States.

The story of Harry Truman is one that could have taken place only in this country. His path from a Missouri farm to the White House led him through various commonplace jobs and then into politics.

Boss said, ‘No’

Ten years ago last spring, Mr. Truman, just finishing a term as a judge of the Jackson County Court, went to Pendergast, whose political star then was at its zenith, and asked to be put on the Democratic ticket as a candidate for county collector.

“No,” Pendergast answered quickly and definitely. “No.”

The loyal Truman was puzzled. It wasn’t the reply he had expected and he knew not what to say. But the “boss” made it easy. “You’re going to run for United States Senator,” he said, just as he might then have told a lesser adherent he might run for road overseer.

Mr. Truman was elected, then was reelected six years later when the “boss” had fallen, and then last January, against his expressed desire, he became Vice President of the United States.

Worked hard in Senate

Most persons who read the newspapers know the story there is to tell of Sen. Truman and the intervening decade. It begins with his employment in Washington of an acute, alert mind, and intense, painstaking industry – perhaps his outstanding asset to make himself a recognized factor in the Senate and thereby useful to his constituents. Added to that equipment has been his characteristic loyalty to persons or groups with claims on his services.

Returning from World War I as major of an artillery unit he had helped organize and which he took overseas, he allied himself with the Democratic party here. That was in the early 1920s.

Becomes county judge

Leaders saw in Mr. Truman a “bright young man” who knew his way about in the labyrinth of county politics and set store by him. They gave him a place on the county ticket in 1922 and he was elected judge of the county court. He was defeated for reelection, but tried again in 1926 and was elected presiding judge, a place he held until he went to the Senate.

In Missouri, three “judges” conduct the county business. They exercise no judicial functions. In some other states they would be called county commissioners.

Knowing Mr. Truman’s penchant for loyalty, it was not difficult to understand what followed. While he had been serving his first term in Washington the Kansas City machine strong house, which was actually a house of cards, top-heavy with power, toppled. Pendergast and scores of his minions were indicted on charges that Democratic district attorney Maurice M. Milligan made stick.

Some quit, not Truman

Some lesser and some greater beneficiaries of the machine and its boss washed their hands of both or turned their backs, but not Sen. Truman. When told in Washington that Pendergast had been indicted by a federal grand jury, his only comment was: "I’m sorry it happened, but I’m not going to desert a ship that is going down.”

It was his loyalty to President, Roosevelt and the New Dealers that gave him reelection in 1940. The crew that had sent him to the Senate in 1934 with a whopping majority was under a cloud. Vote frauds at its hands, exposed and vigorously prosecuted by the crusading district attorney, had sent ward-heelers and even machine leaders scurrying for cover. Many were in jails. There were suicides, disappearances, and Pendergast, himself, faced a penitentiary term.

Tough opposition

At that unpropitious period Sen. Truman’s term expired.

District Attorney Milligan ran against him im the primary. Gov. Lloyd C. Stark, who had put one of the early time fuses under the Pendergast machine, also entered the race against Truman. Both hard-fighting men traversed the state shouting “bossism” at Sen. Truman and citing the source of his support.

Mr. Truman made no reply, not even to deny continuing loyalty to the machine. He made his campaign as “The right arm of the President,” 100 percent loyalty to him and the New Deal. He never mentioned state affairs. but talked of national and international problems.

With his opposition split two ways, Mr. Truman squeezed through to a nomination, and swamped his Republican opponent in the general election.

Earned respect

Even in his first term, still tethered to the machine, Sen. Truman asserted personal characteristics that won places for him on important Senate committees, and earned the respect of his fellow senators and of the administration. His undeviating loyalty to the New Deal caught White House attention. His tireless energy led less willing Senators to load him with legislative matters that might not have fallen to him otherwise.

Fearless investigator

His fearless conduct as chairman of the Senate War Investigating Committee – long known as the Truman Committee – proved clearly his high sense of responsibility in public office. His committee spared no one, not even high administration figures, if it thought their war leadership deserved public criticism.

Under his leadership the committee made government savings estimated at upwards of a billion dollars.

Its investigators pried into war plants, shipyards, and Army and Navy contracts, and the committee’s activities eventually led indirectly to the concentration of war production authority under one man, Donald M. Nelson.

Was good listener

And behind it all was the former Jackson County judge who promised, when he first went to the Senate, to “do a lot of listening and mighty little talking.” He has kept the promise personally, but his work through the years of preparation and war have spoken loudly for him.

He never has posed as a statesman. In his own words, expressed years ago, he “just works at whatever he has to do.”

Sen. Truman will be 61 years old May 8. He is a scion of two pioneer western Missouri families who came to Jackson County in 1842.

His mother, Mrs. Martha Truman, 92 years old, speaks glowingly even now of Harry’s willingness to work when he was a farm boy and of his ability to plow the straightest row to be found on any farm in Jackson County. There 1s another son, J. V. Truman, who farmed the Truman acres for many years and now is with the FHA, of whom the mother speaks with pride.

Mother preferred Senate

Before he was nominated for the vice presidency, Mr. Truman’s mother said she hoped her son would remain in the Senate.

After the nomination, Mother Truman said: “I liked him just as well before he got the nomination.”

High school, at Independence, was the limit of the Senator’s formal education but he went right on educating himself.

He once said:

I read everything in the Independence Library, including the encyclopedia, before I quit school. I’ve always been sorry I did not get a university education in the regular way. But I got it in the Army the hard way and it stuck.

In 1919, Truman married Miss Bessie Wallace of Independence. They have a daughter, Margaret, who has attended school in Washington while the family has lived in the capital.

Incidentally, the middle initial “S” in the nominee’s name stands for Shippe, which was the middle name of his grandfather.

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Stock exchanges to close Saturday

Markets, however, stay open today
Friday, April 13, 1945

The New York and Pittsburgh stock exchanges will close tomorrow in observance of the death of President Roosevelt.

Both exchanges and banks were open today.

Banks were awaiting federal and state action on closing in respect to Mr. Roosevelt.

Arthur E. Braun, president of the Pittsburgh Clearing House Association, said banks are legally compelled to operate until a holiday is declared by the Governor of Pennsylvania and the Comptroller of Currency.

Roosevelt lauded

Officers of the Pittsburgh Stock Exchange joined with governors of the New York Exchange in paying tribute to Mr. Roosevelt.

A statement by the New York governors said:

Since the beginning of the war period, the President himself more than once expressed great satisfaction that the Stock Exchange has been able to maintain an open market for securities in spite of the terrible shock of war.

We believe we should meet this new tragedy in the same spirit. Our country is financially sound, strong in arms and courage, and strong in determination to carry this war to victorious conclusion.

Must carry on

Our leader has died, but we must show our respect for him partly by carrying on the essential functions of our economy in spite of our natural feelings of grief.

We pledge our support to President Truman and his administration in the great task that lies ahead.

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President Roosevelt’s death removed his name from tonight’s schedules. He was to have broadcast a Jefferson Day talk at 9:55 from Warm Springs.

Networks and Pittsburgh stations canceled commercials last night and up to 1 p.m. today, while considering further action.

Network and local programs joined in tribute to Mr. Roosevelt’s memory. KQV presented Bishop Austin Pardue of the Episcopal Church, Father Quigley, head of Catholic schools here, and Rabbi Freehoff last night. They planned to pick up memorial services from Trinity Cathedral today.

Drew Pearson was in town last night and devoted his talk over KQV to the President, forgetting their differences of a year or more ago. He and a local commentator said they had confidential information of the President’s condition, which, of course, they didn’t have. Another said he got the flash at 5:11, which he didn’t. His newswire runs through the Pittsburgh Press building and is relayed to the station from this building. No one had it at 5:11.

John B. Kennedy climaxed a night of tributes at 11:45 when he read Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Requiem,” which Mr. Roosevelt had copied inside a book he gave Mr. Kennedy years ago.

Here is the verse:

Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.

This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.

It appears on the poet’s tombstone.

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Flashed ‘green light’ –
Baseball loses staunch friend in Roosevelt

NEW YORK (UP) – When President Roosevelt, early in his first term, answered critics of his policies with the words, “I don’t expect to make a home run every time I come to bat,” the sports world knew it had a friend in the White House.

Without the provisional “green light for baseball which he issued in one of his last press conferences there would have been little hope for continuation of the ‘sport into its fourth wartime season.

There had been hope to the last that he might follow up the “green light” declaration by throwing out the first ball at the presidential opener between the Senators and Yanks at Washington next Monday.

WASHINGTON (UP) – President Clark Griffith of the Washington Senators said today that the death of President Roosevelt would make no change in plans for the season’s opening game here Monday with the New York Yankees.

Mr. Roosevelt in urging the continuation of baseball for 1945 said he did not think the sport should use perfectly healthy men who could do something more useful in the war effort. The teams probably would be a little older and maybe not as proficient, he said.

Then he told the newsmen that he liked to see baseball games, even if played by sandlot outfits.

That removed the final vestige of doubt about whether there would be professional baseball this season.

Spurred night games

Similar “green light” declarations preceded the other wartime seasons the President emphasizing the need of the nation for the wholesome diversion of an afternoon or an evening out-of-doors when its way chores were finished.

He was considered responsible for extension of the major league mit on night games after a press conference in 1943 when he suggested that more after-dark games would be beneficial to the many government workers in Washington whose hours were in the day time. The major leagues promptly gave Washington Special dispensation to play an unlimited schedule of night games and last year extended the number of games for all clubs whose parks had lighting facilities.

It was the President’s fondness of swimming which led to his lifelong affliction from infantile paralysis. He was swimming at the family summer home at Campo Bello, Maine, in 1921 when he acquired the virus and shortly thereafter was paralyzed in both legs.

Swimming helped him

After that he swam to strengthen the weakened legs and it was only in his third term he had to discontinue his favorite sport because the press of duty was too great for him to spare the time. During his retreats to his second home at Warm Springs, Ga., he spent many hours swimming in his private pool there and attributed to the exercise his ability to walk at all.

On presidential vacations, which became more infrequent, he used U.S. Navy vessels for deep sea fishing cruises and he regarded it as a deep personal loss in 1942 when his favorite cruiser, the USS Houston, was sunk in the battle of Savo Island in the Pacific.

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Sports pay tribute

Roosevelt’s death curtails program

NEW YORK (UP) – The sports world joined the nation today in mourning and tribute to President Roosevelt.

Baseball, preparing for its fourth wartime season, called a halt to its final tune-up activities in respect of the man who had been responsible for the perpetuation of the sport since Pearl Harbor.

Many exhibition games were called off, but in Washington, it was announced that the season’s opener Monday against the Senators and New York Yankees will be played on schedule.

Presidents Ford Frick of the National League and William Harridge of the American forwarded to their club members a request from the advisory council to cancel all games tomorrow, the day of President Roosevelt’s official funeral.

In commenting on the President’s death, Harridge said: “Baseball had lost one of its best friends and greatest boosters.”

Today’s exhibition game between the Pirates and the Cleveland Indians at Muncie, Indiana, was called off, as were the Brooklyn Dodgers vs. the Yankees at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn, the city series between the Cubs and White Sox in Chicago, and the Braves vs. Red Sox exhibition in Boston.

New York University officials announced that the Saturday baseball game between NYU and Brooklyn College had been moved ahead to Monday.

Promoter Mike Jacobs planned at first to hold a fight card scheduled for St. Nicholas Arena tonight. Later he announced, however, that the card, featuring Jake LaMotta vs. Vic Dellicurti would be postponed until next Friday.

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Oberdonau-Zeitung (April 14, 1945)

US-Präsident Franklin D. Roosevelt plötzlich gestorben

Der größte Kriegsverbrecher vom Schicksal ereilt – Große Schockwirkung auf der Feindseite – Truman der Nachfolger

oz. Berlin, 13. April – Wie amtlich aus Washington gemeldet wird, ist der Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten von Nordamerika, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, am Donnerstag nachmittags in Warm Springs (Georgia) plötzlich an Gehirnblutung gestorben.

In sämtlichen aus Nordamerika eingegangenen Meldungen wird betont, dass keine Nachricht seit Kriegsbeginn einen solchen Eindruck auf die Öffentlichkeit in den USA gemacht hat, wie die Nachricht vom Tode Roosevelt, auf die niemand vorbereitet war. Roosevelt hatte sich am 30. März auf seinen Landsitz begeben, um sich, wie er damals erklären ließ, bis zum Beginn der großen Konferenz von San Franzisko zu erholen. Am Donnerstag nachmittags klagte er plötzlich über schwere Kopfschmerzen. Wenige Minuten später wurde er ohnmächtig. Ein herbeigerufener Arzt konnte nur noch feststellen, dass Roosevelt von einem Gehirnschlag getroffen worden sei. Mittlerweile war die Nachricht an das Weiße Haus in Washington weitergegeben worden. Noch während der telefonischen Unterhaltungen zwischen dem Arzt in Warm Springs und dem Stellvertretenden Präsidenten Truman verschied Roosevelt. Sofort nach Bekanntwerden seines Todes wurde der neue Präsident Truman verfassungsgemäß als neuer Präsident der USA ein geschworen.

In einem Bericht der schwedischen Zeitung Dagens Nyheter aus Neuyork heißt es:

Wenige Minuten nach 18 Uhr Neuyorker Zeit gaben die nordamerikanischen Sender die Nachricht vom Tode Roosevelts bekannt. Die Zeitungen waren nicht im Geringsten auf diese Nachricht vorbereitet und konnten daher auch mit ihren Extraausgaben erst viel später kommen.

Die Wirkung auf die Öffentlichkeit ist verständlich, wenn man berücksichtigt, dass niemand wusste, dass die Gesundheit des Präsidenten sich verschlechtert hatte. Zunächst wurde berichtet, dass anlässlich des Todes Roosevelts die große Konferenz in San Franzisko aufgeschoben werden solle. Aber Außenminister Stettinius gab am späten Abend bekannt, dass nach Übereinkunft mit dem neuen Präsidenten Truman die Konferenz entsprechend den ursprünglichen US-Plänen abgehalten werden solle.

Die ersten aus London eingetroffenen Berichte besagen, dass die Nachricht vom Tode Roosevelts auch in England geradezu Bestürzung ausgelöst hat. Man weist darauf hin, dass Churchill und Roosevelt sehr eng befreundet waren, dass also die Todesnachricht für den britischen Ministerpräsidenten und viele seiner Mitarbeiter sowohl ein persönlicher wie offizieller Schlag war.

Roosevelt wurde am 30. Jänner 1882 in Neuyork geboren. Er wählte zunächst den Beruf eines Advokaten, geriet aber durch seine weitverzweigten Beziehungen und durch seine Zugehörigkeit zur Weltfreimaurerei, deren höchsten Grad er zuletzt bekleidete, ins politische Fahrwasser. Hier gelangte er 1913 unter Wilson zum erstenmal in ein hohes Staatsamt als Unterstaatssekretär der Marine. Schon damals trug Roosevelt keine saubere Weste und zeigte, dass er Politik sehr gut mit persönlichen Geschäften zu verknüpfen verstand. Im Jahre 1921 erkrankte er an spinaler Kinderlähmung und musste sich lange Zeit dem politischen Leben fernhalten, nachdem ihm ein deutscher Arzt das Leben gerettet hatte.

Der zweite Abschnitt in Roosevelts politischem Leben begann 1928, als es ihm gelungen war, Gouverneur des Staates Neuyork zu werden. Das Sprungbrett zur Erfüllung des größten ehrgeizigen Zieles, Präsident der USA zu werden, war erklommen. 1932 setzte die Clique um Roosevelt seine Wahl durch. Seither blieb er durch mehrmalige Wiederwahl, die ein Novum in der US-Verfassungsgeschichte darstellte, an der Spitze des Staates.

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Kriegsverbrecher Nr. 1

Von Hubert Caspers

Das Schicksal ist doch gerecht! Auf dem Höhepunkt des von ihm in erster Linie angezettelten größten Krieges aller Zeiten hat es mit Franklin Delano Roosevelt den Kriegsverbrecher Nr. 1 hinweggerafft. Roosevelt hat seinen Krieg nicht mehr überleben dürfen. Er steht jetzt vor dem Stuhl seines höchsten Richters. Tausende und aber Tausende von hingemordeten Frauen und Kindern, die das Opfer der Luftgangster Roosevelts wurden, Tausende und aber Tausende toter amerikanischer Soldaten, die der Kriegsverbrecher – der einmal seine Wiederwahl zum Präsidenten der Vereinigten Staaten mit dem Versprechen an die amerikanischen Mütter betrieb, er würde dafür sorgen, dass die Jungen der USA niemals auf einem außeramerikanischen Kriegsschauplatz verbluteten – in den Tod schickte, klagen ihn an. Ein wahrhaft gerechtes Schicksal tilgte einen Menschen in dem Augenblick aus, in dem er sich auf dem Höhepunkt seiner Macht fühlte und davon träumte, auf den Erfolgen seines verbrecherischen Krieges die Herrschaft der Welt antreten zu können.

Roosevelt war der größte politische Hochstapler, der jemals in der Weltgeschichte umhergeisterte. Er rechnet auch unter jene Männer in der Geschichte der Völker, die kraft eigener charakterlicher und geistiger Unzulänglichkeit namenloses Elend über die Völker gebracht haben. Es gibt in der Geschichte kaum einen Fall von schlimmerer Scharlatanerie, als der Franklin Delano Roosevelts, des viermaligen Präsidenten der Vereinigten Staaten. Er stammte aus einer der alten, sehr vermögenden amerikanischen Familien, die ihre Ahnenreihe auf die Kolonisationszeiten zurückführen können. Aber er hatte inzwischen jüdisches Blut in die Adern bekommen, ebenso wie seine Frau jüdisch versippt ist. Dem reichen, ehrgeizigen Mann stand der Weg in die Politik offen. Er beschritt ihn so skrupellos, wie es nur je politische Großgangster in den Vereinigten-Staaten getan haben. Seine Weste war nie weiß. Eines seiner übelsten politischen Geschäfte startete er – das ist kennzeichnend für den blindwütigen Deutschenhasser – nachdem er bereits im ersten Weltkriege Unterstaatssekretär für die Marine und dann Teilnehmer der Versailler Konferenz gewesen war – gegen Deutschland, als dieses auf dem Höhepunkt seiner von den Feinden erzwungenen Inflation stand. Unter den Aasgeiern, die sich damals am deutschen Nationalvermögen schwer bereicherten, war auch Mister Roosevelt. Er betrog dabei gleichzeitig sein eigenes Volk und begann damit die politische Linie, der er als Präsident bis zu seinem Tode treu geblieben ist. Roosevelt war 1922 Präsident der Schiebergesellschaft United European Investors Limited, die die amerikanischen Sparer überredete, deutsche Papiermark zu kaufen und mit ihr zu spekulieren. Was am Ende bei der plötzlichen Stabilisierung dabei herauskam, ist sattsam bekannt. Der amerikanische Sparer verlor, Roosevelt aber hatte für sein Privatkonto in großen Mengen AEG-Aktien und andere hochvalutarische Papiere erschoben, die AEG-Aktie zu 22 8 Dollar, die am 31. Dezember 1913 mit 538,20 Dollar notiert worden war. Er verdiente am deutschen Zusammenbruch und mit den Geldern des kleinen amerikanischen Sparers damals Millionen.

Solche Gangsterstücke und die Zugehörigkeit zur alten amerikanischen Gesellschaft, die Tatsache ferner, dass er jüdisch versippt und mehrfacher Hochgradfreimaurer war, machten Roosevelt zum geeigneten Objekt jener Kreise, die in den Vereinigten Staaten die Politik recht eigentlich „machen.“ Die jüdische Großfinanz hob den vielversprechenden Ehrgeizling auf ihren Schild. Sie fasste ihn mit jüdischer Raffiniertheit an seiner schwächsten Stelle und hielt ihn bis zu seinem verdienten Ende fest in ihren Netzen. Seine im Mannesalter eingetretene schwere physische Behinderung durch eine spinale Kinderlähmung, die ihn zuerst an den Rollstuhl und bis zuletzt an die Krücken fesselte, hatte einen starken Minderwertigkeitskomplex erzeugt, den er durch eine große Karriere in Stellungen und Ämter abreagierte, denen er geistig keinesfalls gewachsen war. So wurde er das hilflose Opfer seines jüdischen „Gehirntrusts,“ der Juden Frankfurter, Baruch, Rosenman, Morgenthau und anderer. Seine Reden machten Juden, seine Gedanken entsprangen der morbiden Ideologie jüdischer Gelehrtenschulen, die Reklame für ihn machten Film-, Presse- und Rundfunkjuden – er selbst und seine sattsam bekannte Frau brauchten nichts zu tun, als das jüdische Geschmuse wirkungsvoll vorzutragen und mit dem Sternenbanner ihres alten Amerikanertums zu drapieren.

So entstanden die Präsidentschaften dieses unheilvollsten aller amerikanischen Präsidenten seit der Unabhängigkeitserklärung. Sein jüdischer Gehirntrust hat ihn als einen Messias verschrien, der gesandt war, mit seinen – vom Juden entliehenen – Ideen Amerika aus der schlimmsten Wirtschaftskatastrophe seiner Geschichte nach dem berühmten Schwarzen Freitag des 23. Oktober 1929 zu erretten. Als er 1932 zum ersten Male ins Weiße Haus einzog, startete er mit seinen Hofjuden das berüchtigte „New Deal,“ das neue Wirtschaftssystem, das angeblich dem kleinen Mann helfen sollte und mit staatssozialistischen Grundsätzen dem Großkapitalismus ans Leder wollte. In Wahrheit dachten natürlich Roosevelt und seine Juden gar nicht daran, den Massen zu helfen, sondern sie wollten selber ins Geschäft. Nach wenigen Jahren waren Milliarden von Dollar in eine sinnlose Unterstützungswirtschaft hineingepumpt, Millionen von Partnern waren trotzdem von Haus und Hof gejagt, 12 Millionen Arbeitslose lagen buchstäblich auf der Straße und hungerten, das Großkapital aber trat das Erbe des amerikanischen Farmers an und zahlte nach wie vor höchste Dividenden.

Die Vereinigten Staaten standen nach der Pleite des New Deal vor einer neuen Katastrophe. Ihr Präsident musste gleichzeitig sehen, wie in denselben Jahren seiner inneren Katastrophenpolitik in Deutschland der Nationalsozialismus eines Adolf Hitler das Arbeitslosenproblem restlos löste, Staat und Wirtschaft stabilisierte, die Volkswirtschaft von fremden, nicht zuletzt amerikanischen Ketten befreite und die arbeitenden Massen des Volkes glücklich machte, dem völkischen Unternehmertum den Gemeinnutz als verpflichtende Richtschnur gab und das jüdische Parasitentum in jeder Form ausschaltete. Dieses nationalsozialistische Beispiel drohte bei den betragenen und notleidenden Volksmassen der Plutokraten in England und den Vereinigten Staaten zum Nachdenken über die Fehler im eigenen Lande und ihre Verursacher anzuregen.

So wurde aus der inneren Katastrophe, aus Ehrgeiz, Eifersucht und Hass Roosevelt zum Kriegshetzer Nr. 1. Es war die erste außenpolitische Tat seiner Juden gewesen, mit den Sowjets ins politische Geschäft zu kommen und den im bürgerlichen Amerika verhassten Bolschewismus salonfähig zu machen. Seit der ersten Wiederwahl 1936 hat Roosevelt alles darauf abgestellt, die Welt in den Krieg gegen Deutschland zu hetzen, und was an dem toten Roosevelt allein bewundernswert bleibt, ist die raffinierte, zielbewusste Systematik, mit der er seinen Krieg betrieb, indem er die englischen und französischen Demokratien in Europa zunächst ins Feuer schickte und gleichzeitig sein eigenes Volk mit Schlangenhafter Beharrlichkeit für die Teilnahme am Kriege und damit für die Schlachtbank vorbereitete. Seine jüdische Propagandameute stürzte sich in infernalischem Hass gegen ein Deutschland, das die Juden zum Teufel geschickt hatte, auf seine Aufgabe, in wenigen Jahren aus einer streng gegen jeden Krieg in Europa eingenommenen Volksmeinung eine vorbehaltlose Kriegsstimmung zu erzeugen. Zugleich steigerte Roosevelt seine unverschämte Aggressivität gegen das nationalsozialistische Deutschland von Jahr zu Jahr; von seiner berüchtigten Quarantäne-Rede 1937 gegen die Staaten des Führerprinzips über die diplomatischen Geheimverhandlungen seiner Botschafter in Europa, das Pacht- und Leihgesetz, die Zerstörer Lieferungen, den Schießbefehl an die Flotte bis zum 8. Dezember 1941, als er endlich den Krieg hatte, hinter dem er verzweifelt hergelaufen war, führt eine gerade Linie. Mit welchen ungeheuren Mitteln die amerikanische Rüstungswirtschaft diesen Krieg schon in langen Jahren des Friedens vorbereitet hatte, fühlen wir heute am gewaltigen Rüstungspotential unserer Gegner.

Dem Kriege selbst war Roosevelt neben Stalin und Churchill auf der Feindseite der stärkste Motor. Mit dem Kriegsausgang stand und fiel der Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten. Infolgedessen ist der plötzliche Tod dieses Kriegsverbrechers für die Feindseite ein unverkennbar starker Verlust, so zweifellos es auch ist, dass zuerst einmal sein Nachfolger nichts anderes tun kann, als in seine Fußstapfen zu treten. Aber immerhin: Roosevelt trat in einem Augenblick von der politischen Bühne ab, in dem nicht die militärische, wohl aber die politische Situation auf der Feindseite im Zeichen der größten Schwierigkeiten steht. Hier wird Roosevelt, der unselige Vater des Krieges, bitter fehlen. Der Judenklüngel im Weißen Haus zu Washington wird seine repräsentative Drahtpuppe sehr vermissen. Überhaupt sehen wir Alljuda an der Klagemauer stehen und sich verzweifelt die schmutzigen Kleider zerreißen, weil der Messias gestorben und verdorben ist, der mehr als jeder andere politische Judenknecht der Welt für die Begründung der jüdischen Weltherrschaft getan hat.

Uns aber erfüllt der plötzliche Tod des Kriegsverbrechers Roosevelt mit höchster Befriedigung. Er ist uns in Wahrheit die Strafe Gottes, die uns daran glauben lässt, dass auch im Ablauf dieses von Roosevelt angezettelten Krieges sich die Gerechtigkeit des Schicksals am Ende doch durchsetzen wird. Roosevelt musste sterben, als er dachte, den Zipfel des Gewandes der Siegesgöttin fest in der Hand zu halten – ihm half kein Gott und kein Teufel, er wurde im rechten Augenblick vom Schicksal ausradiert. Denken wir dagegen an das Walten der göttlichen Vorsehung am 20. Juli des vergangenen Jahres, als der Tod rings um den Führer stand und seine Ernte hielt und uns der größte Gegenspieler Roosevelts nur durch ein Wunder erhalten blieb – der einzige Mensch, der imstande ist, diesem Krieg der Juden, Plutokraten und Bolschewisten das Ende zu bereiten, das er nehmen muss, wenn die Geschichte ihren Sinn behalten soll. Vergleichen wir jenen 20. Juli 1944 und diesem 12. April 1945 und wir gewinnen die Kraft, die uns den Glauben gibt, der Berge versetzt!

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