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This week, four days after Franklin Roosevelt died, the new President of the United States went before the Congress. The applause was deafening as he entered by the center door, and it increased as he mounted the rostrum...
People hoped for much, but expected a lot less, from the man with the powerful shoulders and crippled legs who stood before them, tightly gripping the rostrum, on that cloud-hung, windy March 4 in 1933. They had not voted for him; they had voted against Herbert Hoover. They knew him as a pretty good governor of New York, a man with a strong-chinned patrician face and the magic name of Roosevelt, a man with a broad Harvard accent and the wealthy, aloof heritage of Groton and Crum Elbow...
...State Capitol in Columbus. On furlough for the duration of the Legislature, he was still in uniform, still wearing his Good Conduct Medal, two bronze battle stars. Starting his fourth term (he was first elected at 22, was Republican whip last session), he went to the Speaker's rostrum, made a speech about what a great job U.S. soldiers were doing overseas. His colleagues rose and cheered...
...rostrum stumbled Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, the Catholic professor of history who had led the Resistance movement. Like France, he was sick-with grippe or from an overdose of medicine. He was speaking to Moscow, but his voice was scarcely audible. Back benchers cried: "Louder! Louder!" Bidault mumbled: France has no intention of taking part in any anti-Russian "western cordon.. . . We certainly want an alliance in the west but we also want an alliance in the east of Europe." Then he cut his remarks short, slumped down like an old man. On the Government bench, General Charles...
...below) laid a firm floor under British internal policy. Three days later the Conservative Government turned to foreign affairs. In two important speeches, on successive days, Prime Minister Churchill and Foreign Minister Anthony Eden laid the basis for future British policy in Europe. With Parliament as a world rostrum, Anthony Eden announced in effect that Britain had returned to her traditional policy of balance of power in a Europe from which Germany would be eliminated. To the countries of Europe's Atlantic community -France, the Low Countries, Norway-he proposed in effect a West European bloc...