Evening star., 1945-04-13

in the way he SO earnestly desired.
Cincinnati Enquirer-F1e lived to see
only beginning upon the imposing
task of international collaboration to-
ward permanent peace. - His instinct
for world affairs was keener than that
OF any other American. He was
first to recognize the Axis menace and
without his policy of dynamic defense
best exemplified by lease-lend-the pres
ent moment in America and the world
would be infinitely darker.
Toledo Times-President Roosevelt
was crisis President whom destiny
seemed to have prepared for the hour
in which he would be called to serve.
Minneapolis Tribune-Scores of mil
lions of people the world over will
mourn Mr.. Roosevelt's passing with deep
sincerity and not a few with grave
anxiety as they contemplate the many
portentious problems that face the
world. For us in this country the first
reaction to our great grief must be a
solemn commitment to a unity from
which all traces Of partisanship have
been eliminated
Omaha World d-Herald-There are no
Republicans in America today, no Demo-
Dealers. There are only Americans,
united in a sense of national bereave-
ment. Harry S. Truman - = is now the
personification of the peoples deter
mlnatlon to win the war.
Des Moines Register and Tribune
Franklin Roosevelt has led not the Ma
ton alone, but much of the world, along
this noble path Ito peace. He has led
for tont
to turn the crucial corner, in the months
Immediately ahead. -
Dallas News-Coming suddenly at this
hour it adds an acutely critical hour to
a solemnly critical day For, whatever
may be said of his national policies, he
had done more to set world policy and
pattern of thought than any man ex-
ceptlng Woodrow Wison-and in an
hour of far more desperate need of such.
Phoenix (Ariz.) Republic-The sudden
death of the Nations Chief Executive
has come at the most critical period
in the war and at time when his hand
was needed in carrying out plans on
which he long had worked A greater
power has decided that it was not to be
the Presidents privilege to see the
fruition Of those plans and to that de-
ClSlOn we must DOW.
Los Angeles Times-In the shock of
President Roosevelts passing, Ameri-
cans on the home front, like our fighting
men when they lose a comrade in battle,
will set their teeth determinedly to
continue their battle mission =. 1t
is for us to pick up where he left off
and continue on """.
Spokane (Wash.) Chronicle-Franklin
D. Roosevelt has gone the way of NOR
tails, but the cause in which he wrought
so long and at so great a price is
living cause. 1t will survive and unto
the unborn generations will go the story
of the man who died working, con-
triving, sacrificing in its defense.
Kansas City Star-A great national
and world leader of rare capacity has
been lost at a time when his guidance
had appeared in more urgent demand
than ever before. Tremendous
responsibilities now fall upon the man
suddenly called to the high Office :.
Mr.. Truman will have the earnest and
prayerful support of the American
people, to the end that the ideals and
plans of the man he has so unexpected
ly been called upon to succeed may be
carried forward to their complete full
fllment.
Troy (N. W Record - President
Roosevelt will stand out as one of the
great men of his age. This We say
despite the fact that we often dis
agreed with him. But for courage.
devotion to duty love of country and
energy in forwarding those principles
in which he believed he stood among
the leaders of our history
Schnectady IN. " Gazette - The
sudden tragic death of Franklin Delano
Roosevelt marks the passing Of a man
destined to be recognized by history as
one of the worlds greatest when events
can be viewed from the proper perspec-
tive his death came as a shock
not only to the people of this country
but to those of the rest Of the world
who had looked to him to lead them
along the paths to a better life with
the end of the global conflict.
Worcester (Mass.) Telegram The
power of America is as great today as
it was Yesterday. But in the midst of
world drama, great and dramatic
figure has been removed. For the present.
Americans can only pay tribute to his
memory, and resolve that his hopes for
victory, world freedom and world peace
shall be fulfilled.
Roanoke tVa.l Times-No President
was ever more beloved or enjoyed the
confidence of the people in a greater
degree than the patrician from Hyde
Park, who, born to wealth and high FAM
lily standing, spent his life fighting for
the underdog. striving with might and
main to abolish poverty and ameliorate
the hardships of life for the underpriv-
ileged and the unfortunate,
St. Paul Pioneer Press-The full
significance of the death of President
Roosevelt is not to be grasped at once.
The event comes too suddenly upon a
Nation unprepared for it. The people
of the Nation, however, must know that
they have been privileged to see in their
time one of the great figures of their
national history. One may quarrel with
much that has gone into the making of
the three terms and part of the fourth
and yet not dispute his high place In
that history.
St. Louis Globe -DemOcrat-HlStOry
in calm retrospect will assess the great
ness of President Roosevelt. whose sud-
den death shocked the world. For the
present he may be described as one of
the most unusual and vivid personalities
who ever flashed across the troubled
horizons of a world which in his time
suffered from the plague of corroding
depression and the the most devastating
war since time began.
Ohio State Journal His death
is a tragic shock to the Nation and the
world. He had made himself a