April 12

That national state of mind which permits itself the luxury of diversion from insistence upon peace assumes its full tragic character on the second anniversary of Franklin Roosevelt's death. For the magic of FDR's leadership lay in his ability to rally the best instincts of determination in America's people and direct them to the cause at hand. World order was his surpassing cause. Today the structure he envisioned has not been realized: yet is is only our failing in Will, and the absence of this personality, which prevents us from meeting our crisis four-square.