j VOLUME II, Number 46
26 November 1962
Part of Our'History Passes in Mrs* FDR
Heads of State have paid her tribute and the "little" people of the world
have voiced their own sense of loss# They*re not really little, of course,
and it was one !of Eleanor Roosevelt’s great attributes that she identified
herself with them and profoundly understood their aspirations.
It was right that all of the eulogies spoken, the simplest and yet most
eloquent came from our ambassador to the United nations. Mr. Stevenson’s
words, like Mrs• Roosevelt’s life, are part of our history.
"The United Nations," he said, "has meaning and hope for millions, thanks
to her labors, her love, no less than to her ideals - ideals that made her,
only weeks after Franklin Roosevelt’s death, put aside all thoughts of peace
and quit after the tumult of their lives, to serve as one of this nation’s
delegates to the first regular session of the General Assembly. Her duty
then - as always - was to the living, to the world, to peace.
"My country mourns her...But even as we do, the sadness we share is enlived
by her faith in her fellow man and his future which filled the heart of this
strong and gentle woman. She imparted this faith, not only to those who shared
the privilege of knowing her and of working by her side, but to countless men,
women and children in every part of the world who loved her even as she loved
them.
"For she embodied the vision and the will to achieve a world in which all
men can walk in peace and dignity. And to this goal, a better life, she
dedicated her. tireless energy and the strange strength of her extraordinary
personality."
Quote of the Week
“She would rather light a candle than curse
the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.”
U. S. Ambassador to the United
Nations, Adlai E. Stevenson,
in tribute to the late Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt.