ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
SCHOLARSHIPS TO BE AWARDED
NEW YORK, April 13. The Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial Foundation has decided to establish a system of international scholarships as a living memorial to the late President, said Mr Henry Morgenthau, jun. The foundation would bring students from all over the world to study at American institutions, just as the famed Rhodes Scholarships now took students to Britain.
Mr Morgenthau, who is president of the foundation, was speaking at a service in Hyde Park commemorating the second anniversary of Mr Roosevelt’s death. President Truman, in a broadcast from Kansas City, eulogised his predecessor as a great humanitarian who had brought hope and courage to millions.
The State Department’s regular short-wave broadcast to Russia included transcriptions of Mr Roosevelt’s war-time speeches and, in addition, a special message by Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt, in which she expressed the hope that the Soviet people would reap the rewards they had “so heroically earned in our common struggle for victory over aggression.”
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25159, 15 April 1947, Page 7
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