The cheers could be heard around the world. Franklin Roosevelt's victory was good news in London, in Moscow, in Paris, in Chungking. It was good news in many a humbler foreign village which the President, geography-lover though he is, had never heard of.
All the world listened to the returns. In every major Russian city, loudspeakers blared the news to street crowds; Germany's D.N.B. news agency issued bulletins all night. So did U.S. Army stations, broadcasting to troops on the Western front, to Italy and to Pacific islands.
English readers followed the election closely....
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