WASHINGTON--Congress put aside critical price control legislation long enough today to join with the President, the Cabinet, the Supreme Court, and Ambassadors of foreign nations in paying solemn tribute to the memory of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Mrs. Roosevelt, dressed in black, and members of her family heard John G. Winant, wartime ambassador to Great Britian and principal speaker at the memorial ceremony, eulogize her late husband as a man who strove tirelessly for world peace while guiding his own country to certain victory.
The countrys only four-time president, Winant said, was "brave, steadfast, one who dared to see the facts, to face them and to act--one who believed, who hoped."
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