The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-08
War Crisis Makes President Roosevelt The Man Of The Year Declares Time
Country He Represents Stands for the Hope of
 the World; Say Editors


 'The most striking actual ac-
 complishment of 1941 was the very
 real beginning made in turning the U. s. into an arsenal for the en-
 tire side of the democracieS -
 and credit for that belongs to U. s. business men rather than to
 the administration But when the Japs bombed Pear Harbor, the designation had to bt changed, for President Roosevelt be- came overnight the leader of tho democracieS against Hitler. "Tht use of the strength of the U. s. has become the key to the future of the war, and Franklin Roosevelt was the key to the forces of the U. s He held the balance of power fol the war and stood out clearly as Hitler's major adversary. Stalin Churchill, Chiang Kai-Shek, what ever their individual statures, had their futures dependent on the help that the U. s. and Franklin Roose- welt alone could give" The Man of the Year designation has been awarded annually for Is years by the Editors of Time to the man or woman who has effected the most dramatic change in the course of history during the past 12 months
 Time on-Partisan
 Time, which is non-partisan, has never been supporter of Franklin D. Roosevelt, but this is the third time within ten years its editors have recognized him as the Man of the Year
 The first time was in 1892 when "U. s. citizens, who had been beaten by the hopelessness of the depres- sion, were electrified by the words and actions of the man who said the wheels could turn" The sec ond time was in 1886 when he said This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny" and be- came plainly the Man of the Year by virtue of the overwhelming vote he received.
 But for 194l he was The Man of the Year only partly in his own right; but partly because the coun- try he leads stands for the hope of the world.
 In discussing other leaders who had been suggested for men of the year, Time halls Chiang Kai-Shek as still the only leader who has successfully fought the Japanese to a standGtill" and recognized that the nation which Franklin Roosevelt leads has not yet demonstrated to history, as China has, that it has the stature to stand up and trade blows with the Axis year after year"
 Time l.ails Joseph Stalin as the only leader who "has had to face major German drive without mil itary disaster" but Time points out that the credit for that achieve ment, for taking untold punish ment," may belong far more to that unsung hero, the common Russian soldier, ng suffering and long courageous" Furthermore says Time even Stain himself could no longer hold up the banner of the Prole- tarian revolution as the hope of mankind. All he holds now is She strength of the Russian army battl- ing in a war that he long sneered at as imperialistic."
 Winston Churchill
 Winston Churchill" says Time, had no .rcat moment in 1941 to measure up to ths history y-arresting instant 1940 when he spoke for his people in their finest hour-"We shall fight on the beaches we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, e sh v fight in the hills.' Churchill was still awakening men to the meaning of war, and no me had done a better job. He was a man of the year, of the decade, and, if his cause wen, of all time. But as man of 1941, he had one great weakness. After more than two years of war unCer his leadership Britain was still losing"
 No moral accomplishment elevat- ed any of the leaders of the Axis to the rank of Man of the Year, and in 1941, Adolf Hitler tackled Russia, failed for the first time to conquer promptly and instead in- volved Germany in an exhausting War--a war whose strain has shaken Germany to the core and seriously undermined his chances for ultimate victory.
 Admi l YamamOtO
 Greater has been the physical accomplishment of Japan's Admiral 1soroku ,Iama noto. He struck blow which for the time at least has paralyzed both Britain and the U. s. in the Pacific. But he also launched Japan on an operation which, If it is not entirely succses- full is likely to endange- her worse than Hitler'S Russian campaign has endangered Germany.
 By contrast to the men of the Axis, there were other candidates for a place in history who had won not material victories, who sent no armies into the field, who fought thelr battles on another plane. One of them was Religions undoubted Man of the Year, the Most Rev. erend William Temple, Archbishop of York. At Malvern and recently again at another gathering of Brit ish churchmen he took the lead Ill attempting to set up better stand ards for the world to follow when slaughter is done. When his work is complete-if it is as far sighted as 1t is good Willed - he may do more to influence the future of the world than all the leaders of state.
 Tn the U. S, TO single heroic event, like the flight of Lindbergh to Paris in 1927, cut through the dead inertia of the prewar months and the hero of that exploit now stood as one of the most tragic figures of U. s. history. No great books. plays, inventions, discoveries, testified to any creative vitality surging through the nation. No poet came up with a war sorg thunder ing the modern equivalent of The Battle Hymn of the Republic that appeared seven months after Bull Run. In music, the Man of the Year was Beethoven; the first four