MEDAL OF HONOUR
Posthumous Award To Roosevelt (7.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, April 18. Bills have been introduced into both Houses to award posthumously the Congressional Medal of Honour, the nation's highest honour, to President Roosevelt. No other president ever received this medal. The statement presented to the House of Representatives said: "Mr Roosevelt has gallantly and unselfishly given his life in the service of this nation as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, and he was the outstanding leader of the Allied nations in the cause of world peace. No man in the country’s history had laboured longer and worked with such patience and diligence in his battle against a form of tryanny which, if successful, would have enslaved us all.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVII, Issue 23181, 20 April 1945, Page 5
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