Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-07
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PRAISE ROOSEVELT
Lament Passing Of Great
!, World Figure From Stage
of Affairs.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
3 LONDON, January This morn
sing's London newspapers print full
accounts of, Theodore Roosevelts
death, together with long sketches of
the former President and lengthy edi
#torial comment.
with Roosevelt there disappears
from the world a great American and
q great friend of Britain" says the
Daily Mail. "He was ever fighter,
continuously challenging criticism. as
must a man whose primal quality is
pure energy rather than pure reason.
We think of him as a man who also
made a great place in the world by
dint of his great and very American
qualities"
Elemental Figure Gone.
The Daily Telegraph says: 'In
Roosevelt the world loses one of its
elemental figures. one of those who
not more than twice or thrice in a
generation strike the imagination of
mankind as personifying to SUI
preme degree some human force at
work in the history of the times. No
man did so much to awaken the spirit
of an effective world power in the
American people, and his famous
phrase for the right diplomacy for
national greatness in a world of COM
peting ambitions. Speak softly and
carry big stick only summed up
the wisdom of generations in the old
world, which still thinks of war as a
thing in certain cases Inevitable
The Daily Graphic says: "A lover of
Il
hard worker and enjoyer of life in all
its wholesome aspects, Theodore
Roosevelt was as nearly complete q
man as can be imagined
Enemies Proud of Him.
The Times says this morning:
'In politics. as in all else. he was a
vigorous fighting man and dealt hard
blows. His opponents smarted under
them, but the most determined enemies
in that field were just as proud of him
AS great citizen as were the rest of
the American people.
He cannot be ranked with the lofty
creative geniuses of politics, but his
name will go down among those of
American Presidents with something OF
character that attaches to the name
of Lincoln; as one who was a great
abiding force in morals as well as poll
tics and who, served his country with
unwearied earnestness and zeal
Voice Carried Across Atlantic.
The Post says: ut is not every voice
that carries across the Atlantic, but
Roosevelts undoubtedly did. 1t was
listened to here almost as attentively as
in America, and it's familiar, downright
accents will be missed. The world can
Ill spare it's big men now, and even the
strongest opponents of Roosevelt's poll
cies admit that Roosevelt was big
man."
Few men. however eminent. are
known outside their own country, but
Roosevelt was one" says the Ex-
press.
His ideals may be described as the
cause of righteousness and progress,
backed by the big stick"
Challenging Impact of Personality.
% The Chronicle says; History -nlaces
some big things in his record, but big
ger than any perhaps was the chal-
longing impact Of his personality on
the world in which he lived"
s Pail Mall Gazette publishes long
Biographical sketch of the ex-Presi-
dent, concluding with the words:
by his death America loses a great
citizen. the allies q good friend and
the world a vivid, interesting and
vfrile personality that can ill be
spared"