Evening star., 1945-04-13

GIlCcS. ne WIS SucSJ VI IIlc pies
March % at the White House cor
respondents dinner. The Presiden
seemed to enjoy the dinner, and tn
following stage show, as much O
more than any newspaperman there
He jibed at the newSpapermen IL
brief speech, and told them in ful
that he had attended more Whit
House press conferences than an,
of them.
Goes to Warm Springs.
A few days ago the President. IL
need of rest, left on his last jour
ney-to his beloved Southern home
at Warm Springs, Ga.
A tremendous figure of a man
despite legs left withered and use
less by infantile paralysis in 1921
Mr.. Roosevelt shouldered burdens a.
heavy as any Chief Executive eve
carried. While he stood up under ,
job which had wrecked the health
Of many predecessor, the year
naturally left their mark on him.
Forced to Take Rest.
Influenza, sinusitis and bronchiti.
weakened him in the winter o
1884 and rumors spread about hi
health In April, 1914, he bundled
up his old clothes and took a month
off to convalesce in shirt-sleeves OF
the languorous plantation coast o
South Carolina. When he returned tt
Washington his physician said h,
was in as good shape as any man O.
62 could hope to be and that his con.
dition offered no bar to another foul
years in the White House.
Mr.. Roosevelt accepted the fourth.
term nomination by radio from {
naval base at San Diego, Calf
Immediately he boarded a cruiser
for his first wartime trip into tht
Pacific and consultations in Hawai-
where sneak punch brought
America into the war on December
7, l94l-with top commanders ir
the battle against Japan.
He long since had broken al
presidential travel records, and wa
did not deter him from pushing
the mileage up around 100000.
Momentous Decisions.
Time after time, he or Mr.. Church
i'll dared the dangers of Atlantic
crossings for epochal conferences
which shifted the Allies from the
defensive to the offensive snG
changed the course of the combat
around the world
Standing out in sharp relief, in
the light of events the next summer
were their meetings at Cairo ano
Teheran, Iran, at the close of l943
In series of parleys. they talked
with Premier Joseph Stain of Rus
sia. Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek
of China and President Ismet Inonu
of neutral Turkey.
Italy already had been knocked
out of the war. So at Cairo and
Teheran strategy was perfected fol
obliterating the military power oi
Germany and Japan.
1t called for Gen. Dwight D. Eisen-
hover, who had welded British ano
American arms in the Mediter-
ranean into mighty and victorious
force, to assume command of in.
vasion forces poised in Britain fol
a knockout blow at Germany from
the west.
Guarded by Russians.
First, at desert hotel in tht
shadow of great pyramid, th'
American President, the British
Prime Minister and the Chinese
Generalissimo agreed that Japar
must be utterly defeated and hel
empire utterly destroyed by strip
ping away lands acquired in decades
of conquest. Military measures nee
essary to fulfill these aims were con
Sidered
The generallissimo flew back tt
Chungking Roosevelt and Churchill
flew to Teheran, where the adjoining
Soviet and British embassies formed
a single compound surrounded b,
grim Russian tommy-gunner guards
Stain, who had left his country
for the first time since the revolu
ton, invited the American Presiden
to stay at the Soviet Embassy during
his participation.
In Complete Agreement
Four days of deliberation pro
duced, Roosevelt, Churchill ane
Stain said, a determination tha
our nations shall work together ir
the war and in the peace that viii
follow" They added they had con.
certed plans for the destruction
of the German forces and hae
reached complete agreement a:
to the scope and timing of opera,
tions which will be undertaken from
the east. west and south"
From Teheran, Stain went back
to Moscow. Roosevelt and Churchill
to Cairo to be joined by President
Inonu. Three days of conference:
in Cairo brought forth another com.
munique which reported that "tht
closest unity existed between tht
United States of America, Turkey
and Great Britain in their attitude
toward the world situation"
En- route home, the Presiden
stopped at battle SCARED Tunis
Malta and Sicily. The Secret Servic,
had to restrain him from looking IL
on fighting in Italy.
BY mid 1914, the full significance
of the Cairo -Teheran meetings hat
become apparent.
In fulfillment of the commit
ments, the invasion of France go
under way from the west and south
Russia pounded hard on the eastern
front and by fall Allied arms wer'
on German soil. Victory in Europ'
was in sight
And in the Pacific, Allied force
won successes in Burma, flushed tn,
Japanese from one island strong.
hold after another, dealt seriou.
blows to the enemy's navy and sen
bombers winging with increasing
frequency over the heart of Nippon
Japan too faced inevitable defeat.
War was far from Mr.. Roosevelt
thoughts on that March 4, 1888
when he declared in his first in
augural address that the only thing
America need fear was fear itself.
New Deal Is Born.