Show ra ON WORLD LEADERS PICTURE by the thread of one mans man s life hie hung personal relationships which affected nations prime ministers and potentates once close to franklin roosevelt now must learn how to get along with an unknown gentleman in the white house certain army navy officials who always knew how roosevelt would react on this and that now must do business with a man they once criticized to illustrate how the pendulum of fate has swung here are some of those who will miss franklin roosevelt most WINSTON CHURCHILL was able to call the late president on the telephone at any time night or day their relationship was more intimate than with most members of their own cabinets when churchill get roosevelt he talked to harry hopkins their friendship was equally close H hopkins and churchill used to stay up late at night sipping brandy long after had gone to bed and it was those late hour talks that sometimes worried U S army navy men for vital policy sometimes was after madni midnight ht churchill had planned to hold national elections probably in june and Roosevel ts friendship would would have been one of his great campaign assets that asset is now out the window instead he must do business with a man he know and who chair manned a committee whose members were quite critical of certain british lend lease and international ter air policies abroad some political observers believe that makes Chur chills political future very uncertain ADMIRAL ERNEST KING the commander of the fleet and chief of naval operations really ran the navy under roosevelt and he ran it with a high hand he ignored the late secretary frank knox whenever he felt like it knowing he would get a sympathetic ear at the white house he even overruled knox on such a trivial matter as a gray blue summer uniform for the navy though knox had decided it would cut too heavily into the consumption of textiles knobs successor secretary of the navy forrestal has played in with king he had to if king agree with him the admiral came out bluntly in press conference and bilu said bu so but naw now there is a new man in the white house who wrote a caustic report bitterly critical of the way the admirals slowed up the war by failure to build adequate landing boats the new president also did not hesitate to throw his hooks into the navy whenever the brass hats pt got inefficient especially on their inexcusable procrastination in building destroyer destroy er escort vessels vessel so fellow admirals are watching to see just where king now sits GENERAL B B SOMERVELL no army officer clashed crashed with the truman committee more frequently and more headon head on than the tough talking chief supply officer r of the army somervell differed with truman on all sorts of things and the truman committee reports are studded with criticism of the ardys supply job truman is not a man to nurse personal grudges and wont demote or transfer somervell general marshall marsh a ll 11 always dainta maintained i ned that despite mistakes he was the best man they had but somervell will never become chief of staff or rise any higher in the army HARRY 11 HOPKINS of all those around roosevelt harry hopkins will miss him most theirs was a very close personal relationship although harry has been C criticized vitriolic ally sometimes even by other I 1 presidential intimates never I 1 wavered in his devotion in a way harry took the place of roose belts eldest son jimmie whom he once hoped would be his secretary so harry will miss his old friend terribly the critics will say that hopkins will miss him because of the glamour the power and the p prestige re stige but actually there was a love and devotion between the tw two 0 men which few realized and even fewer understood note several years ago roosevelt gave hopkins permission to take notes on their discussions and write his memoirs you have no money harry he said and youre foolish if you dont take notes on our conversations you have thy my full permission to use them later but hopkins always too busy always engrossed with winning the chiefs next jobje objective C tive never had time to take notes he knows more about roosevelt than any other living man but most of the secrets will go with hopkins to the grave BERNARD the man w who ho talks with presidents no longer has the key to the white house during the bitter battles between the war production board civilian group and general ells military clique baruch always backed up somer somervell vell in fact he was on one of eUs ells most vigorous supporters truman on the other hand fought in in the civilian corner also bernie was for byrnes bymes not truman at the chicago conven convention tio n so he may not be such a clos close e friend to presidents any more |