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am. and the oxygen tent was ne.
moved because the patient appeared
improved.
when he awoke," Mr.. Jones said
'Mr. Willkie began to joke with The
nurse as she swaboed his throat
commenting when asked how hi
felt, How can I talk with my mouth
full of that stuff?'"
Mrs. Willkie arrived at the bedside
I'VE minutes before her husband
died.
"She saw him, although his face
was concealed by an oxygen mask,
DR.. Ghiselin said. He was still
breathing. Mrs. Willkie seemed te
know the exact second that death
came. She wavered and DR.. Salzer
and myself ran to her side and sup
ported her. She would have col
lapsed otherwise"
Roosevelt Praises Willkie.
Thousands of messages of SYM
pathy deluged the family. President
Roosevelt said: THE Nation will
long remember Wendell Willkie as q
fortnight American"
Mr. WILKES death followed by
four days that of Alfred E. Smith
1928 Democratic presidential candi-
date, and left without a definite
answer one of the moot questions OF
the 1914 presidential campaign
which candidate, If either, he in
tended to indorSe.
Only few days before he was
hospitalized Mr.. Willkie said in an
Interview with an Associated Press
reporter that he had not yet made
up his mind whom he would sup
port in the presidential campaign.
Seated at massive desk in his
Office overlooking New York Harbor
and the Statue of Liberty, Mr.. Will
kie said Il imagine I will express
preference, but first I want to see
how the campaign unfolds and study
the positions the candidates take"
And he added: Honestly, if the
election were to be held tomorrow,
I don't know whom I would vote
for"
If he had reached decision since,
he never said SO publicly.
A one-time Democrat, the plain
spoken Hoosier captured the Re-
publican nomination at Philadelphia
In 1910 to the accompaniment of
stamping galleryites shouting I'VE
want Willkie."
Although he polled the largest
popular vote ever given a Repub-
lican candidate, Mr.. Willkie was
defeated by President Roosevelt
So Mr.. Willkie became a member
Of the loyal opposition" support
ing administration policies which
he thought correct, criticizing those
he didn't like.
Made Trip for Roosevelt.
Mr.. Willkie went to England in
i941 and after the United States
entered the war he made 81 600
mile tour of the Middle East, Russia
and China as special representa-
tive of President Roosevelt.
While on this trip he called for
o second front in Europe and visited
fighting areas in Russia and China
He toasted Marshal Stain at a
Kremlin dinner as a man who
kept his eye on the ball"
When he returned he wrote about
his travels in a book, "One World"
which sold 100000 copies.
He became an avowed candidate
for the 1914 Republican nomination,
but when unable to obtain a single
delegate in the April Wisconsin pri-
maries withdrew from the race.
The man Mr.. Willkie had defeated
tor the COP presidential nominal
ton in 1940-Gov. Dewey-won the
most delegates in Wisconsin, and
although not an announced candi-
date captured the 1914 nomination
easily.
Mr.. Willkie had been a dark
horse" candidate in 1910 and as such
proved to be political phenomenon.
He had no orthodox political or
ganization behind him and was OPP
posed by the "Old Guard" of the
party.
While Mr.. Winkie had been in