Evening star., 1946-01-29
HarryL. Hopkins, S.,
Dies in New York
After Long Illness
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conferred with Premier Stain ano
Winston Churchill, and later with
Britain's new Prime Minister
Clement Attlee.
Decorated by Truman.
MIR. Hopkins was awarded the
Distinguished Service Medal by Mr.
Truman for his services during the
war. The presentation was made
at special White House ceremony
last September.
When the history of the New Deal
Is written effectively, Harry L. Hop
kins probably will stand out as the
dominating personal influence on
Franklin D. Roosevelt, with particu-
lar regard to the advanced social
legislation which marked the early
days of his administration.
For the wiry, delicate Iowan was
Undoubtedly closer to Mr.. Roosevelt
than any other man. His advice was
not limited to the council table
During several years Of the Roose-
welt administration, Mr.. Hopkins
lived in the White House as member
of the family. His advice reached
the President in those hours when
he had thrown off the cloak of Of
flcialdom and was only human
being graphing with formidable
problems-a man who needed help
and sympathy and encouragement,
as well as-sometimes-restraint.
When Mr.. Hopkins work for Mr.
Roosevelt was ended by the Presi-
dents death, the only titles he en-
joyed were special assistant to the
President and chairman of the Mu-
nitions Assignment Board. But titles
we're no measure of his influence.
He was, in fact, a Man Friday" to
whom the President turned for the
execution of any delicate or impor-
tant task that might be at hand.
Knew Real Inside Story.
Mr.. Hopkins could have written,
with more accuracy than any living
man, the real inside story of the
Presidents years in the White
House. 1t was he to whom Mr.. Roose-
yelt entrusted confidential missions
to Prime Minister Churchill and
Premier Stain before America en-
tered the war, the result of which
was the tremendous flow of lease
lend goods to these future Allies. 1t
was he who Mr.. Roosevelt selected
as his most intimate companion and
adviser when he met Mr.. Churchill
at sea to draw up the Atlantic
Charter in 1941, when he went to
the Casablanca in early 1943, and
finally when he met with both Mr..
Churchill and Premier Stain at
Teheran later in the year.
Titles aplenty had been bestowed
on the soft-spoken alter ego of the
President in early years in the ad-
ministration. He was head of the
Works Progress Administration dur
ing the depression era when that
post was, next to the presidency,
the most important in the Nation.
Later he served in the cabinet as
Secretary of Commerce. And,
finally, he was lease-lend admins
traitor in the days when Britain's
holding of democracy's dixie against
the flood of Nazism depended on the
swift passage of munitions and food
from America.
Born in Iowa.
Mr.. Hopkins was not a prepossess-
ing man. He was born on August
II, 1890, in Sioux City, Iowa, the
son of a humble harness maker.
And he was virtually unknown
social worker in New York when
Mrs. Roosevelt introduced him to
the future President. He and Mr..
Roosevelt saw eye to eye on social
problems, and from this mutual in
terest grew the close association that
later made him an international
figure.
Married three times, Mr.. Hopkins
is survived by his widow, the for
mer Mrs. Louise Gill Macy of New
York, whom he wed in 1912 For
more than a year they lived at the
White House, but in the summer OF
1943 moved to a home of their own
in Georgetown.
MI. Hopkins was separated from
his first wife by divorce many years
ago. She was the mother of his
three sons. David, Stephen and
Robert Mrs. Barbara Duncan Hop
kim, his second wife and the mother
of his daughter Diana, died in
October, 1887, after Mr. Hopkins had
become a well-known figure in
Washington.
Son Killed in War.
Stephen, youngest of Mr.. Hop
kins' sons, was killed in action on
Kwajalein in the Marshalls in Feb
ruarY 1914, when he was 18. He
was killed by a Jap sniper's bullet
while serving as a Marine private.
David Hopkins served during the
war as a naval officer aboard an
aiksraft carrier and Robert was
with the Army in Europe.
Mrs. Roosevelt became virtually
a foster mother to young Diana
who lived at the White House after
her own mothers death, and this
probably served to strengthen the
intimate ties which already bound
her father to the presidential fam
lily.
Almost from the day, he took
Office Mr. Hopkins was the object
of bitter attack by the administra-
tion opposition. He engaged in 6
running battle throughout the
years with Republicans, conserva.
tive Democrats and, finally, the
isolationists. The criticism directed
at Mr.. Hopkins seemed only tt
increase the Presidents affection
and esteem for him.
Mr.. Hopkins, White House OBJ.
servers knew, had masterfu
knowledge of Mr.. Roosevelt's per.
sonality and thought processes. HI
understood the President thorough.
ly. and understood the causes which
the White House championed. HI
was, or became, implicitly a re-
flection of both.
Wrote Unusual Letter.
When Mr., Hopkins, because o
poor health, resigned as Secretar
of Commerce in 1910, the Presiden
wrote him an unusual letter Whic1