THE PRESIDENCY: The Meaning of Willkie

Last week Franklin Roosevelt, as President of the United States, heard news of a matter about which plain citizens could only speculate. It was word of the powerful British Fleet (see p. 16). Like an echo blurring as it bounded back, that historic whisper turned into rumors that did not quite make sense, statements that did not hang together, fragmentary speculation whose point people could not quite catch. And it was drowned out by the clamorous news from Philadelphia, where on the sixth ballot of the 22nd Republican National Convention, Wendell Willkie of Indiana was nominated for President.

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