The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-15
North Carolina Press Pays
Tribute To Roosevelt

cas- and all the anti-Axis world, pay the last
tribute living man may pay immortals as
the body of Franklin Delano Roosevelt is low
cred into the grave on the Hyde Park estate
to which he had longed to retire from the
burdens of leadership he carried in tori
and bleeding world, but could not.
While the little family group and closest
associates stand beside the open earth about
to receive him. and his name is reverently
spoken in the nations churches, homes and
wherever the people meet or assemble, it is
fitting here to repeat the views OF him given
expression by editors in the daily press of our
Old North State. The following excerpts, linn
tied though they must be by available space
in these columns, fairly reflect the sorrow Of
the states press as his passing.
Says the Charlotte Observer, in part:
'In his death he will loom larger in the
esteem of his fellow countrymen than in his
boundlessy energetic life.
'Now they will have recourse to their sanel
and more temperate judgments and less to
their prejudices a nd partisanships as they
come to take the measurement of his mean
ing to the leadership of America.
And all the more so as the war moves
toward its climax of overwhelming victory
aid the complex task of fixing the future
b representatives of the American State.
Upon him alone the American people were
lasting peace agreement.
"His noteworthy niche in world affairs is
hardly less historic than the singular honors
and responsibilities which the Presidency OF
the American nation bore in upon him.
ITO assume that some of the prestige in
international name and stature which he
could claim was derived as an inheritance
from the office he held as the head of the
greatest of all the nations of the world is
in wise to detract from his own worth.
ness Of the loud international acclaims which
he had earned
1T is the untimeliness of his earthly leave.
taking which will join the people of this ma
ton in common sacrament of sorrow over
hs DEATH
Obviously written by his old chief in the
Navy Department, under whom Mr. Roose-
welt served in the Wilson administration,
Josephus Daniels, the Raleigh News and Oh.
server says:
Certainly, Franklin D. Roosevelt was
the greatest leader of his time-in this
or In any other nation of this troubled
world. He among the first to see the
significance of the efforts of the Axis
powers to dominate the world and to move
effectively to meet the menace to the
peace and security of the world fore
this war began, he saw clearly that it
was likely to engulf the entire globe From
the commencement of hostilities, his first
thought was the defense of this country
and hlS second purpose was aid to those
who were resisting the blows of the Nazis.
So effective were his efforts in both di-
rections that when the United States was
drawn into the war by the attack at Pearl
Harbor two years later it was only nee.
essary for the United States to continue
and to accelerate steps already taken to
place into the field the greatest armed
force ever assembled and to remain the
arsenal of Democracy by continuing to
supply arms and munitions to Great Brit
ain, Russia and the other Allies already
at war-aid that was already flowing in
steady and powerful streams
D From the Winston Salem journal we add
this:
s'Franklin Roosevelt had become recognized
everywhere as the worlds greatest champion
of democracy and freedom for all mankind
.But his death at this time is not nearly
10 great a tragedy as it would have bee,
. wear ago or four years ago. For in the
last four years President Roosevelt had led