Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-28

that Mr.. Roosevelt is meeting with Mr..
Winston Churchill and not, let as say, with
Sir Stafford Cripps, who many people have
believed would be the prime minister of Great
Britain by this time; that he is dealing
generally with types of Englishmen who what
ever their party creeds, have a large element
of British conservatism in their characters,
not with British duplicates of Vice President
Wallace or Harry Hopkins
l count this, as l say, fortunate for the
American people, for in war no less than In
peace, sound policy usually lies in honorable
compromise between opponents of the left and
Of the right
HAVE spoken of Mr.. Churchill as being
i the older man. He is older by eight years.
Mr. Roosevelt's leadership and his many rare
qualities are derived wholly from his position
in public life
Mr.. Churchill throughout his life has been
an influential and powerful man, out of office,
as we'll as in. He has had an extraordinary
series of experiences from the time that he
was lad-soldier traveller writer in extenso.
When he was boy of 20 he was commissioned
a subaltern in the Fourth Hussars and shortly
thereafter went out TO India with his regiment.
He was barely Il when he made visit
to Cuba and saw the operations Of Spanish
troops against the Cuban revolutionists. He
was "a when he accompanied Kitcheners
expedition for the recovery Of the Sudan, was
present in the famous battle of Omdurman and
wrote a vivid, brilliant piece Of reporting Of
this famous episode which he called The
River War" .
He accompanied the British army in the
South African War, captured and escaped
from the Beers. Thereafter, he was elected
to the House Of Commons, and his life became
conferred in British public life in which he
repeatedly lost and won, filing some of the
most responsible positions in the English
ministry. and, finally, after the outbreak Of
this war, becoming prime minister of Great
Britain His historical writings dealing with
the first World War and its aftermath have
hardly been less remarkable than his public
career.
n 9TH Mr. Roosevelt and Mr.. Churchill are
y descendants of old and representative
families. Like other members Of the Roose-
welt clan the President has an astonishing
fair for politics. Mr.. Churchill is direct
descendant OF the great J0uH NHNi Ni'A'If 'N'NO
of Marlborough, perhaps the greatest soldier,
in the history of Great Britain, though he has
to be estimated alongside of Oliver Cromwell
and the Duke Of Wellington.
This pre-eminence Of the famous soldier
and counsellor Of Queen Anne is the ludg-
mcnt of Field Marshal Wavell. now in Wash
ington Winston Churchill, moreover, is the
son of one Of the most brilliant Of modern.
Englishmen. Lord Randolph Churchill and OF
an American-born mother Lady Jennie Jerome
Churchill Of New York City.
Nothing more needs TO be said than that
both men embody much of the best traditions
of their own countries, and both Of them
represent an attitude, in both countries, that
has found noble expression for 45 years,
namely that it is the privilege of a statesman
Of either country to serve both.
In 1916 | spent a memorable day AS the
guest Of Lord John Morley, certainly one OF
the foremost men in English letters if not in
British politics | remember on that occasion
Morleys account of his friendship with Mr..
James Russell Lowell, as American minister
to the Court of St. James, in that quite argu-
mentative period after the Civil War.
Morley said Of Lowell, He was the best
of your representatives TO this country. He
served both nations" May it be possible TO
say the same of both Mr. Roosevelt and Mr..
Churchill in this great crisis through which
both nations are DasSinp