The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-13
American Army Is Within 48 Miles Of Berl
Death Ends Careerof
 Great Statesman in
 Passing gof Roosevelt

Roosevelt Spanned turDulent years of peace in which he worked to lift the Nation out of depression and tumultuous years of war when he played a dominant role in charting an Allied victory.
 While he gained the adulation Of millions, the unprecedented moves he made and the political theories he embraced made him the frequent target for blistering criticism.
 Accusations ranged from "dema- goguery" to dictatorship" The public debt jumped to a record peacetime high, then to even great CT wartime peaks. Critics charged the President with trying to pack" the Supreme Court after that tri- bunal had thrown out several of his favorite projects and he sought to infect new blood" by reorganizing the membership. Some party stall warts forsook him.
 But he became the first President in history to be elected to a third term--and by smashing majority and then won the nomination for a fourth term.
 An International Statesman
 MT. Roosevelt had attained substantial international stature m the years when he was concerned primarily with applying revolution ary remedies to an economic pilght rooted in World War l.
 And after the flames of a second global conflict were kindled, he be- came the pivotal statesman of more than 30 United Nations which pool ed their might to smash a German Italian-Japanese Axis.
 Kings and queens, presidents ana prime ministers, travelled to the White House to consult him.
 The military strategy Of nations representing 75 per cent Of the earth's surface and 60 per cent of it's population-a strategy which sent American fighting men, American war weapons, American food ana American dollars to combat the AXIS was mapped at conferences m which he took leading part.
 Tn Unprecedented Parleys
 He constantly shuffled and re- vised a prodigious war production program, framed stupendous war budgets to be met by taxes that hurt and, also at home, fought an imitation peril hardly less dangerous to the Nation than its enemies at arms
 He drew up with United Nations colleagues, as the war progressed, blueprints for peace-a peace design ed to avoid the nasty mistakes of the Versailles treaty.
 International conferences on a scale never before seen in history helped the President to formulate his war plans. Rising to pinnacle of world attention with him in these councils was Britain's sturdy Prime Minister, Winston Churchill.
 His intimates said nothing less than the threat of war, and finally war itself, could have prompted MT Roosevelt to stir up political tur- moil in tremendous proportions by shattering the 150-year-old two- term presidential tradition begun by George Washington. and then run ming for fourth term.
 Says He Preferred To Retire
 In 1940, the Chief Executive told the Democratic National Convention he was accepting renomination for a third term only because of a storm raging in Europe. He was reelected overwhelmingly over Wendell L. Wilkie, the republican candidate.
 Four years later, MT. Roosevelt said his preference was to retire to the family estate at Hyde Park, N. Y, where he was born January 30, 1882. He told Democratic Chair man Robert E. Hannegan in a let ter:
 All that is within me cries out to go back to my home on the Hud- son River, to avoid public responsi- bilities, and to avoid also the pub licity which in our democracy fol- lows every step of the Nations Chief Executive.
 Such would be my choice. But we of this generation chance to live in a day and hour when our Nation has been attacked, and when it's future existence and the future ex- istence of our chosen method of
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