ROOSEVELT'S DISABILITY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 266, 10 November 1938, Page 23

ROOSEVELT'S DISABILITY.

LITTLE KNOWN XN AUSTRALIA. (Ry Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) DUNE DIN, Wednesday. The number of people he had met in Australia who did not know that the President of the United States suffered from i>. major physical disability surprised Captflin W. Bernard, an American tonriat, who arrived by the Maiinr.xa.nui. ['resident Roosevelt, he eakl, could ■walk only with difficulty because of the effcrts of infantile paralysis. He wa* an amn/.inj? personality —remarkably cheerful nnd renin rkably industrious. Captain Bernard added that perhaps the rea-ion why many people were ignorant that 1 lie President win crippled beeaiwe pliotojyra ph« and Ynotion pictures always nhowed him witting down. ''Muniness competition in America enconraires the #dil'cwde«t progress in the world and ha« resulted in the highest form of efficiency," said (jlptain Bernard. Though there are 48 different Mates in America, with 48 different opinion*, they all have one common idea —the encouragement of private enteri>i i«■ o. The only <Jovcrinnent-owned contern in the country is the Post Office."