Franklin D. Roosevelt: Typed Letter Signed as Assistant Secretary of the Navy....
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FDR writes of a premature armistice announcement on November 8th.
Franklin D. Roosevelt: Typed Letter Signed as Assistant Secretary of the Navy.-November 8, 1918. Washington, D.C. One page. 8" x 10.5". Navy Department Assistant Secretary's Office letterhead.
-To: Stan V. Henkels, Esquire of Philadelphia.
-Mailing folds, else very fine.
The Great War (WWI) ended at the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" in 1918. This day is still celebrated in many parts of the world under various titles- Veteran's Day in the U.S. and Remembrance Day in the U.K. Just three days before the actual event, FDR writes to a gentleman in Philadelphia, in full, "My dear Mr. Henkels:/ Many thanks for your note. What you say is the kind of thing that heartens anybody who is doing work for the Nation in this crisis./ That news of yesterday afternoon was premature to say the least, but by the time you get this we will know one way or the other./ Always sincerely yours..." A very prophetic announcement.
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A very interesting and historic letter by FDR as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, November 8, 1918, just three days before the ending of the Great War, on Navy Department Assistant Secretary's Office letterhead to Mr. Stan V. Henkels, Esquire, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. FDR writes: "My dear Mr. Henkels:/ Many thanks for your note. What you say is the kind of thing that heartens anybody who is doing work for the Nation in this crisis./ That news of yesterday afternoon was premature to say the least, but by the time you get this we will know one way or the other./ Always sincerely yours,/ Franklin D. Roosevelt." FDR was of course referring to the Armistice that ended the Great War in this letter to Mr. Henkels, who must not have been disappointed by FDR's words and the fact that indeed as FDR prophesied, the Great War had ended, perhaps on the very day in which Mr. Henkels received this reply from FDR in November, 1918. A truly fabulous and historic letter from Assistant Secretary Roosevelt to Mr. Henkels concerning the ending of the Great War.
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