BOOK OF THE DAY
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F.D.R. BooeeveU: World Statesman. By Basil Woon. Peter Davies. ID2 pp. UO/6 net.) The development of the President's policy and authority in the crisis years and through the war, down to Pearl Harbour, is welt explained in this vigorous account of his career. Many readers, however, will even more warmly welcome the earlier chapters, which carry the explanation further back and deeper. They trace the source and growth of Roosevelt's ideas; show him, a member of Wilson’s Cabinet, battling against the isolationists and sharing, his chief’s defeat: show the State Governor anticipating the President's methods, already over-riding party and political tradition; and follow him through the experiments, collisions, set-backs, progress, and effectual triumph of the New Deal to the edge of his present self-fulfilment as a leader and leader of an, international cause,
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23714, 12 August 1942, Page 2
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