Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-29


that Mr.. Roosevelt Is meeting with Mr..
Winston Churchill and not, let us say, wiz
Sir Stafford Grips, who many people n.y.
believed would be the prime minister of Great
Britain by this time; that he is dealing
generally with types of Engshmen who what
ever their party creeds have large element
Of British conservatism in their characters,
not with British duplicates of Vice President
Wallace or Harry Hopkins.
I count this, as 1 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
/ 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
subaltern in the Fourth Hussars and shortly
thereafter went out TO India with his regiment.
He was barely 81 when he made a visit
10 Cuba and saw the operations of Spanish
troops against the Cuban revolutionsts. He
was "a when he accompanied kitchener's
expedition for the recovery of the Sudan, was
present in the famous battle Of Omdurman and
wrote a vivid, brilliant piece of reporting of
Wb no no
River War"
He accompanied the British army in
South African War, was captured and escaped
from the Beers. Thereafter, he was elected
10 the House of Commons. and his life became
centered in British public life in which he
repeatedly lost and won, filling some Of the
most responsible positions in the English
ministry. and, finally. after the outbreak Of
this war, becoming prime minister 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
D descendants of old and representative
families. Like other members Of the Roose-
Welt clan. the President has astonishing
fair for politics Mr.. Churchill Is a direct
descendant Of the great John Churchill. Duke
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-cmnence Of the famous soldier
and counsellor Of Queen Anne is the 1udg-
ment 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 10 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 - years,
namely: that it is the privilege Of statesman
of either country TO serve both.
In 1916 | spent memorable day az 7
guest Of Lord John Morley, certainly oneN
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
10 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 10 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 passing.