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New York City Hall. For New York's of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt would take it to the platform and his daughter mayor of guardian. Francis A. Catholic bishop of the archdiocese. Did this solemn moment when the world is in sorrow. And the people. Beloved. Particularly. I shall read for you the text of the proclamation issued by the president of the United States it has pleased God in His infinite wisdom to take from. Franklin Delano Roosevelt the thirty second president of the United States the leader of this people in a great. Here the assurance of victory but not to share he lived to see the first foundations of the free and peaceful world. To which his life was dedicated but he lived not to enjoy. Himself upon that world. His fellow countryman will slowly. In time to come the people of the earth who love the way and I hope will mourn him. But though his voice is silent his courage is not spent his faith is not extinguished the courage of great men out leads them to become the courage of their people and the peoples of the world it really is beyond them and not fools their purposes and doings their hopes to pass now all they are for I have yet to woman president of the United States of America and to a point Saturday next April the fourteenth the day of the funeral services for the dead president as a day of mourning and prayer throughout the United States I honestly recommend the people to assemble on that day in their respective places of divine worship there to bow down in submission to the will of Almighty God and to pay out of all hearts their homage of love and reverence to the member we are the great and good man whose death they mourn in Witness where I am human to set my hand on a cause the seal of the United States to be a fix done to the city of Washington the thirteenth will in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred forty five and the independence of the United States one hundred and sixty nine signed Harry Truman President Edward R. the teeniest Jr secretary of state. In this crucial moment in the line from our country when in the course of our world wide war on the eve of the expected realisation of a major military victory which will influence the future of the peoples of the world for years to come when it meets the preparations for a conference which will have a for its purpose the acceptance of the principles of hope for peace settlements and permanent peace our commander in chief has been taken away by the hand of gone. We however face the future with resolute confidence we call in the words of our beloved Archbishop down and in his prayer his creed for America when he said we believe in America because we believe in God and God's providence that has been over us from the earliest days of our beginnings believing in God we are confident both his merciful forgiven us of our national scene and his awareness of our national virtues believing in God's providence we are confident of our higher result all that this fair land the visible setting of the vast immaterial soul of the American nation shall never lose its initial consecration until the common fatherhood have gone up so that we and our children and children shall live in peace and harmony among ourselves and with our neighbors. In this America we believe for this America we live here for this America we stand ready to die. Our prayer for America our plan with guns in America is today as it was in the days of the infancy of our United States and I shall hold with the words of that stalwart citizen and churchmen archbishop who in the eighteen hundred wrote that the prayer of which I shall give you the conclusion. We pray the old guard of might wisdom and justice through whom authority is rightly administered the laws are enacted and judgments decreed assist by holy spirit of counsel and fortitude the president of the United States that his administration may be conducted in righteousness and be eminently useful to the people whom he presides by encouraging due respect for the vote thank you and religion by a faithful execution of the law. And Justice and by restraining vice and immortality we recommend to the eye and bound and most of your god all our grandmother and fellow citizens throughout the United States that they may be blessed in the knowledge and sanctified in the observance of I most holy law that they may be preserved in Union and in that peace which the world cannot give and after enjoying the blessings of this life be admitted to those that are eternal a myth. You. Don't. Own. The. Thing. On. Some. One thing. The. A. You from. The. From the America. Mary the. The. The. The. The. The. The. The. The. The. Was. Was. Told. To. Speak for the people of the city of the hour. Here on our. Distinguished guests. My fellow citizens. This is a day. I'm sorry and I'm mourning for all Americans wherever they may be. They have lost their president. President Franklin Roosevelt. At the very height. Of his career. His leadership and national and international policy. And the foresight. Has been taken from us. Without warning. And with startling sudden. It is the saddest of moment. And it is not possible to exaggerate. The importance of our long. Practice Roosevelt. Who had served in the presidency. Longer than any of his predecessors. Had made it sound. Not only a captain of the American mind. But a leader. In the construct gave statesmanship of this modern world. With the support. Of American public. And with a background of American power and influence. He had very self and dominating. Powerful force in. The life of the world. And a leader and construct of leader. In the world to are going to rise this world so that the awful events upon which we are now compelled to live. And I never take place again. Franklin Roosevelt. Laid down His life for his country. He had exhausted. His strength and his vitality my His years of overwork and by his deep concern. And the efforts which that concern involved. For all these great movements with which he was identified. In every part of the globe. No longer young. He had recently begun journeys to Africa the Egypt to Malta Turkey and to Russia. In order to confirm on the spot so to speak with litters of opinion and to see at first hand. The circumstances which had to be dealt with. In order to go forward with a constructive policy of International Cooperation Organization. Was stablish peace to maintain peace and to give America safety and prosperity. At the very moment when he passed provided. He had his mind. Speech which he was to have made. A speech of welcome. At the coming conference of international law going to zation to be held in San Francisco within a few days. His mind was on that great construct of undertaking. He had already brought about the very important conference as I'm specifically topics. Which had been held at Hot Springs Virginia. And Atlantic City New Jersey. In the state of New Hampshire. And the doctor might know that Washington. With all of those all of that material gathered together. He was ready down. The proposed to this new international conference in San Francisco the next steps to be taken to make sure. That from which the ground has been suffering so colossal a fashion for the last few years could never occur again. Not a program. But an outlook. Part of the James. Franklin Roosevelt. Because as the three fundamental characteristics. I've caught struck statesmanship. He had foresight. He had. And he had faith. It was foresight. Which enabled him to look into the future and see what had to be done. It was carried and carried forward towards doing. It was faith. And what it would all be. That gave him the vigor power of the influence over is found then. He has the thirty five years. Thirty second. President. And one of the very great. One would have to go all the way back to Abraham Lincoln. Find any president. Have a problem. Anything like. That Lincoln's problem pilot or master never mind a good idea and I don't. Have these problems I. Have a man a real. World wide statesman not merely an american little American president. We are American. To his memory everything which gratitude. We owe every effort that we can get in. The carrying out by our government on our feet. Great construction. Of the name of Franklin Roosevelt. Will be remembered and honored. As a captain by. National. On his path toward great. May he rest in peace. And God bless. The come. The. Food. Costs. They. A buffer. Oh. The eight. Thousand the. Loads. The. Writing on the script and. Rabbi posting I got Gratian and I are on. The twenty third Psalm. The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want the make of me tonight down and bring past Joe the leader maybe saw the still water as he stalled it my soul he guided me in straight. In his namesake. You know I walked through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil for the Ark when. Via brought in by Sky they come for me. I'll slip out as I think a little before noon even in the presence of mind and I mean about Ashton knowing Good morning and with all my cup runneth over Surely I don't know the signs and they're saying shall follow me all the days of my life and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord and. Oh the. Day. Out O.. The. Eighth the fold out the. The out a thousand the. Wheat shall I promise. A million and a half members of the American Federation of Labor the state and city found today with hands bound in brief with full understanding of the loss which every American. Justice and freedom from the well have sustained of the death of our great and beloved presidents. We know all the heart of a man his love of humanity and its purpose to abolish poverty unless we know how great his desire to achieve complete victory of our global war unite the American people in the home of social justice not only in our own country walk through all the way we know all strong was his determination to achieve a lasting and just speak this little man we lost the gallery to the people of all races creeds and color is blood of small indication of the purpose of the term a nation of all America in his memory we must all carry on we must see to it we must ensure that is ideals and principles all retain to this land we solemnly plans that we will stand shoulder to shoulder with the industrial and all Americans in our fight for the you keep men so the ideals and principles of our late president that we are as united people will support our new President Harry S. Truman. And that we offer our prayers so Dave and the half of Franklin Delano rules. We will also beseech Almighty God to protect preserve and guy friends than Filmon soul that blame me baby thank you and inspire to carry on after successfully complete the way so nobody to be gone by the leader we have lost. In his infinite wisdom Almighty God has taken home to In Style The man whom the people of the United States elected presidents and whom the realities of war made our commander in chief in his lifetime Franklin Roosevelt symbolized many things to millions of human beings most of all to the millions beyond the seas who never saw him he was a living symbol of the power the compassion and the promise of freedom which spells America to people in Terra and pain driven through the hideous nightmare of destruction and agony which is war and even to the on happy masses in enemy countries is name stood for understanding for help and for a shining new world in these terms he spoke for every one of us and men listen and believed in Him history will kind its own words to describe him in this troubled and solemn hour as I try and hold humility to speak for American industry I think there is just one word that I want to you because I know it's truth of my own knowledge Franklin Roosevelt was a brave man taller and compassion and freedom are global words by which hold they can describe But courage is a personal intimate thing no bigger than the man it measures. On the bitter lonely and discouraging night when the axis Ami's stood poised on the channel when the flames unclog Pearl Harbor and the agony of the ten cuts deep into America's heart when every battlefield and every thinking she seemed to mock our efforts and only confusion and ineptitude was hobbling harvested on the home front on these nights right Lynn ruse both attainable only to himself in that desolate loneliness which men in high places know in him so he had to find the strength and courage and faith that must ultimately that the content of victory in Iraq be Leslie he had that courage and he found that spring he extended it completely willingly generously like every other good soldier in his country to have a day in and day out he was driven by the desire to minimize the human cost of war to protect the bodies and lives of up fighters by throwing against the enemy and over Paul ring massive weapons of ships planes and tanks and guns this man who many called impractical masterfully calculated the physical back doors in the greatest wall in the world those of unknowns and then demanded a performance from industry thank test again a total that it's got to give the imagination a hundred dollars in playing the year twenty million tons of chips but the miracles were performed over and over and today the Paul row of the United Nations watches through Europe than the Pacific. In dramatic justification of one man's confidence in its fellow status and rolling toward a final victory that he will not see and yet he did see it from the beginning because he knew American he was part of the blood and bone and spirit even on such short and tragic notice our sense of history must tell us that this man was part of the American tradition a tradition which puts no limits on achievement refuses to race in its sacrifice and makes pirates and idealism its religion finally he has given us by his devotion a new object the on the victory unity at home and among nations let us put our back on our heart into that in his memory. We saw him leave flags for us and. American Franklin Delano Roosevelt will never die he will he will live because the ideals and the goal to which he gave his life are imperishable we shopped and well are determined to remain united with our fellow Americans of all fields of work of all races creeds and they are its. United with our fighting sons and brothers in uniform we shall strive ever to our plans I purpose on the best American democratic tradition in the spirit of Franklin Delano Roosevelt who consecrated his life to the proposition that the welfare of our great nation is inseparably found with the welfare of the working people we solemnly pledge our total effort to building the kind of America the kind of world for which Franklin D. Roosevelt labor and toward which President Truman will find us working loyally and under his able leadership of the sandwiches benediction the Reverend John Sutton and by Alan Avenue Presbyterian Church. No into God's gracious mercy and protection we commit you the Lord bless you and keep you the Lord make his face shine upon you and be gracious unto you the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace in your going out and in your coming in in your rising up and in your lying down in your lost around in your tears until you come at last to stand before him in the day to which there is no sunset and no John Amen. Say a. Week. The. The. The. The AS. The. The. The. The. The. The air. He used to say my friends and we were his friends one hundred thirty millions of us today over the entire surface of these continental United States yes over the entire surface of the world where freedom loving peoples are gathered hearts and minds have stopped for a few fleeting moments to pay tribute to the memory of a great humanitarian the late President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Roosevelt embodied in his physical self the ideals of a god God who has now ascended into Valhalla to take his place on the side of those other great humanitarians of whom the world has many too few. He talked of the four freedoms in the Atlantic Charter he planned even before that so that the peoples of the world who believed might have he loved the people the little ones and the great regardless of race or creed or station in life and today these are the people who mourn his passing. All over the world whatever peaceful people are gathered we are paying our respects to the memory of this great American an American a man of whom we can justly be proud Holland gave us his ancestors America has given him to the world at large Franklin Delano Roosevelt. You also older you of the road campaigning which we shared the rapid march the life of the camp the hot contention of opposing fronts the long maneuver right battles with their slaughter the stimulus the strong terrific game spell of all brave and manly hearts the trains of time through you and like of you all filled with war and wars expressions. Of their comrades your mission is fulfilled but I am more warlike myself on this contentious soul of mine still on our own campaigning by. The one tried roads with and Busters opponents line and through many a sharp the feet and many a crisis often baffled here marching ever marching on a war fight out I hear too fierce or weighty or battles give expression. Yes ladies and gentlemen the skies wept they wept bitterly and sorely as the people of New York paid their respects to a great American. New York City's own station W N Y C W N Y C F M.