The Icelandic Canadian - 01.06.1945, Side 21

THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN
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equally distinguished public and private
concerts too numerous to mention.
Along with her intensive and exhaus-
tive hours at the piano Miss Conde has
found time for the other activities that
girls of her own age are interested in.
She has grown up in a natural healthy
manner and is now tall of stature and
lithe of movement. With fair hair are
the blue eyes of her ancestry sparkling
with vitality and the joy of living. With
the first few years of her life leaving
behind them a trail of glory that dazzles
Broadcast
made by the Hon. Thor Thors on the
evening of President Roosevelt's death.
Never before have we felt so distinctly
as now, in this moment of penetrating
grief, when the news of the Great Presi-
dent’s death is flashed to every corner
of the world, how small the world is,
how true that there is just one world.
The announcement of President Roose-
velt’s death is received with the deepest
mourning by freedom-loving people on
every spot of the globe, from North to
South, from East to West, by individuals
and nations, who have set their hopes
and hearts on dreams of justice and fair-
ness for all men, in the new world arising
from tihe ruins of this terrific war.
President Roosevelt was the first presi -
dent of the United States to be known
by every child in my country—'Iceland.
In 1941 the Government of Iceland con-
cluded an agreement with President
Roosevelt to the effect that the American
forces should take over the protection
of Iceland during the war. Many of the
people of Iceland had never seen a
soldier before and my country by reason
of its smallness can never be a war-
faring nation on its own. When we
allowed the American soldiers to use
our country for military purposes, we
did so first and foremost because we
knew we could trust the Great President
of the United States. The fact that the
treaty which my Government had made
with President Roosevelt was unani-
mously approved by the Icelandic Par-
the eye, strains at the bonds of credi-
bility and staggers the imagination it
would be folly to try to predict what
the future holds for this young artist,
that the past has not already given her.
Somewhere beyond the pall of man’s
achievements is that unattained pin-
nacle of perfection to which great artists
look. Miss Conde strives upwards and
onwards towards that goal and our
earnest wishes accompany her on her
way. —G. E
liament, clearly proves that also in my
small country, so far away from the
United States, President Roosevelt en-
joyed everyone’s trust and respect.
The Government and people of Ice-
land will receive the news of President
Roosevelt’s death with the feeling of
the most profound grief. We know that
we have lost a true friend of our country
and of all the small nations, a friend
whom we deeply miss. In the annals
of our history his name will stand with
golden letters as it will in the history
of the entire world.
No human being can eternally live,
however it says in the old Icelandic
Edda, that a noble name will never die,
nor will the fame of a dead man’s
deeds. President Roosevelt’s deeds, his
leadership and noble ideals will be one
of the brightest stars that finally will
lead wandering humanity to the reali-
zation of his dreams of a better and
fairer world.
The United States is a country of
great riches, its riches will go from one
generation to another. One of the great-
est inheritances that the present war-
suffering generations of the United
States will give to all the coming gene-
rations is the illustrious example set by
the Great President, Franklin Delano
Roosevelt.
This inheritance will be shared by
all the peoples of the world through
all the times to come.
In that hope humanity marches on-
ward.