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June. 1945
tained enough potentially explosive force to wreck, any country. Certainly there is none who can deny that Franklin Roosevelt was sufficiently strong and powerful, sufficiently dynamic in his leadership to blast the rigid obstructions out of the way and let the tide run free.
Roosevelt knew the tide as no man knew it. He knew it from the days he spent on the waters of Passamaquoddy Bay as a young boy in the sail boat. As Gerald Johnson pointed out, "There is no finer water for sailing provided the sailor maintains a decent respect for the fundamental laws of seamanship. No water is worse for the man who doesn't. The prodigious tides makes currents and tide-rips dangerous. But they are not treacherous. They may be relied upon to act at a certain time in a certain manner. The man who knows his way about has no occasion to be caught in them. In the waters of Passamaquoddy, President Roosevelt learned that this world is subject to law. Kicking and screaming may browbeat a doting family but they have no effect upon a tide-rip; certain things must be done at certain times; revolt against the rules brings its own punishment, instantly and inexorably. Yet the young sailor discovers that if law is relentless justice is never denied. Forces infinitely greater than he is compel him to perform certain acts in a certain order and tJiere is no escape from this compulsion. Yet if he understands the ways in which these forces move and governs himself accordingly, that same inexorable law becomes his protection. The sea is not capricious. It seems so
to those who have never learned . . . to those who have misunderstood . . . or those who have forgotten its laws."
So it has been in the career of Franklin Delano Roosevelt . . . the man who is dead, but whose spirit will live eternally because he was able to realize that there is no real line of differentiation between the human tide and the rise and fall of the waters on this globe. None is infallible. Were he to be infallible he would not be human. The dead leader made his mistakes, as we all have done. But underneath it all, America may be eternally grateful to him for having the foresight to blast the obstructions out of the way and let the tide run free.
Now, under President Truman . . . in the words of Foch . . ."a la hataille . . . tout le monde . . . a la hataille" ... to the battle, everyone, to the battle.