LONDON HONOURS LATE PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT

Grey River Argus, 14 April 1948, Page 7

LONDON HONOURS LATE PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT

LONDON, April 12

At the unveiling of the Roosevelt Memorial in London, there wan a hushed silence as Mrs Roosevelt, a tall figure in black walked beside His Majesty towards the statue. They paused' for a moment on the. steps of the memorial. Then Mrs Roosevelt pulled the cord and the Union Jack fell away, revealing -the cloaked., .landing figure of Mr Roosevelt. His Majesty saluted and then placed a wreath on the statue. It was a glorious spring day. The uniforms of the United States and Royal Marines, forming a guard of honour on each side of the memorial, made a fine display of colour. Mr Churchill was one of the first to greet Mrs Roosevelt on her arrival. SPEECHES AT DINNER Mrs Roosevelt, speaking at a Pilgrim’s Society dinner given in her honour, said she would like people to think of her late husband as “valiant for friendship”—friendship which tried to break down misunderstanding and build a world friendship to create an assured peace. Mr Churchill declared that Franklin Roosevelt was the greatest American friend Britain had ever found. He changed decisively and permanently the moral axis of mankind by involving the New World inexorably and irrrevokably in the fortunes of the Old. Princess Elizabeth, the Duke ot Edinburgh, Mr Attlee and many notables attended the dinner, which was the largest public dinner m London since before the war.