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...still-painful leg injury and honorable discharge after two years in the European Theater. Quentin F. Soik, 22, of Milwaukee, veteran staff sergeant of the Army Air Forces, enrolled at the University of Wisconsin as a pre-law student last summer. He was pledged to Theta Chi fraternity...
World War I changed strenuous living from pranks to patriotism. Quentin, the ex-President's youngest son, was killed at the age of 20 in an air battle with two German planes, and took his place with Joyce Kilmer, Lord Kitchener and Rupert Brooke as one of the most widely publicized casualties of the war. Kermit came through unhurt; Archie was badly wounded; Theodore Jr., the oldest, was gassed once, wounded twice and decorated 15 times...
Meanwhile, convention plans went full-steam ahead. Massachusetts' tall, toothy Representative John McCormack was picked to head the platform committee; the added list of speakers included Hollywood's Helen Gahagan (herself a candidate for Congress) and beefy, bonhomous War Correspondent Quentin Reynolds. Washington gossip had it that Senator Claude Pepper and Postmaster General Frank Walker would be at the Chicago end of the White House telephone wire; that the President might not even make an acceptance speech, but just acknowledge his renomination at a regular White House press conference. And in Chicago, Ed Kelly's Illinois Democrats...
Near the German lines, Captain Quentin Roosevelt (son of Brigadier General T. R. Jr.) and Captain Fred Ghercke crawled off the jeep, exchanged salutes with two German officers...
Coldly General Weygand analyzed the situation. Hopeless, he said; nothing to do but give up. Churchill recalled the dark spring days of 1918, when the British were in desperate straits around St. Quentin and Marshal Pétain dispatched a force in the nick of time. Churchill reminded the old Marshal that bold action then brought victory on Nov. 11. Yes, said the Marshal, but where is there a British force to save the French today? Churchill had no answer; Dunkirk had robbed him of everything except the will to fight. It had robbed Pétain of everything...