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On the waters of Passamaquoddy Bay, Franklin Roosevelt learned the sea . . . and the likeness between the human and the ocean tides. Here is published the partial text of a broadcast made April 13, 1943, over the Mutual Network —
BY CEDRIC FOSTER
ON the Tauber River in Germany, where American casualties were dribbhng back to a small Bavarian village, the president's death came through the loudspeakers of the BBC like a shock of a bullet. Howard Cowan reported that Captain K. E. Wilcox of Sioux City, Iowa, had just finished digging a piece of shrapnel from an American soldier's arm. He wiped the perspiration from his face and then slowly declared: "He will go down in history as one of the three greatest president . . . Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt."
Trite as the saying may be, there still is no way of avoiding the statement that it will be future historians who will the more accurately appraise the work of Franklin Roosevelt than those of contemporary nature. But it is given to us to have had the opportunity to have lived through the memorable career of this man. We may well ask the question, why was he taken at this time, without encroaching upon the divine prerogatives of the Almighty God and Saviour who rules the universe and the planet upon which we dwell for such a fleeting period. The answer to that is that
the brain of the man was burned out. It was sacrificed in the toil and worry which beggar description; it was lost in the labor of years, in the responsibility which weighed so heavily upon it. This irrefutable fact is the one so many of us fail to comprehend. We do not understand it because the responsibility has never been ours. Yet no man to whom the world turns for any sort of leadership in critical times can doubt the truth of that statement. After twelve years of wrestling and grappling with problems which had never been faced by any man in the history of this land, and by few men in the history of any other — death struck him down at last.
As to the lasting quality of President Roosevelt's labors ... let us turn today to the words of Gerald Johnson who said: "No more knowl edge of American history than may be obtained from, a good college textbook is enough to correct the false idea that the development of the democratic process has proceeded in an even flow. Every well informed man is aware that it has been characterized by oscillation between radicalism and reaction . . . between progress and