Conant Expresses Sentiment Of Nation on World's Loss

From his home in Cambridge last night, President Conant voiced the feelings of the nation and the world as he commented on the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The statement follows:

"The sudden death of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt at this moment in our history is a world tragedy of such magnitude as to render trivial all conventional expressions of grief and homage. Friends of freedom in all countries must respond to this challenge given them by fate and insure by their efforts the realization of his aims."