13 April 1945: Saint Louis Post-Dispatch covers the unexpected death of President Franklin Delano #Roosevelt the preceding day.
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13 April 1945: Saint Louis Post-Dispatch covers the unexpected death of President Franklin Delano #Roosevelt the preceding day.
Mourning for #FDR in the US and Allied countries was widespread and profound.
Here, photo of a "Negro Prayer Service"
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13 April 1945: Saint Louis Post-Dispatch covers the unexpected death of President Franklin Delano #Roosevelt the preceding day.
We must remind ourselves, that, when #FDR died. Vice President Harry S. #Truman was a largely unknown quantity to the public. The paper included photo essays on Truman and the transition.
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13 April 1945: Saint Louis Post-Dispatch covers the unexpected death of President Franklin Delano #Roosevelt the preceding day.
Although #Nazi #Germany initially responded to the death of #FDR with equanimity--"unlikely to affect war"--it soon came to see it as a miraculous opportunity, as
@nytimes
reported two days later. https://nyti.ms/1iCvlpF
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The #Nazis went from calmly noting the death of #FDR (12 April 1945) to seeing it as an omen of miraculous delivery, echoing the demise of Russian Empress Elizabeth in 1762 during the Seven Years' War against Prussia (https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/historical-journal/article/abs/britain-prussia-russia-and-the-galitzin-letter-a-reassessment/8D3184A02EC139B13C6EB639BDF476B3)
For some reason, though, even serious historians often erroneously speak of the death of *Catherine the Great* (reigned 1762-96)
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Berlin/u3opuHBXWqoC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PT266&printsec=frontcover
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@CitizenWald Didn't you know that Catherine was the only Russian empress who ruled in her own right?
@lizl_genealogy Hi, Liz. How's life? Have not heard from you for awhile
@CitizenWald Hi Jim! Traveling in Italy at present. How's life back in Massachusetts?
@lizl_genealogy Lucky you! Though lucky us, if not as great as that: record heat wave, '80s and '90s. Bliss.
But then there's all the work that has to get done nonetheless . Still, sun and warmth raise the spirits! I feel it
For now, though: just muddling through, or--what does Churchill say in films?--just keep buggering on
(BTW one day we must meet up in Boston or wherever.)
@CitizenWald I think his exact phrasing was, "If you're going through hell, keep going," which I've always thought was a good mantra personally.
I had seen before I left that it was forecast to be very warm by the end of the week, although I believe you are warmer out there than Eastern Mass. is. Here it's been chilly and rainy, with a cold wind.