US Naval Reserve Midshipmens School - Capstan Yearbook (Notre Dame, IN)

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hen the treachemr fyf Pearl Harbor Zqft us a broken fleet, when every battle was a losing battle ana' evemr action a retreat, there were a few un- a'auntea', courageous men to fight with what thgi had, to lose battles and retreat when they must, so that behina' them the forces might gather, ana' a nation might arm. We dedicate this seventh Cap- stan to those men who fought their way from defense to zyjrenseg to those who battled the japanese from the Phili,bpines to Port M oresby-and back again.

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Few men-and even fewer Americans-have so influenced the course of world events as Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President ofthe United States and Commander-in-Chief of the United States Army and Navy. Never before has an American commanded such a fighting forceg never before has an American assumed such responsibility. Not alone must he coordinate the armed forces to the accomplishment of one end, but he must also con- trol such incalculable domestic forces as economics, production, morale 5 all the harvest of dragon teeth sown by the carelessihand of war. Upon this burden is tossed one more-perhaps the heaviest of the lot-the burden of state affairs, the relationship of the United States to foreign nations. His is the task not only of securing such cooperation with our allies as will win the war, but of maintaining such cooperation to win the peace. ln this man's hands a majority of the American voters have, for the fourth time, placed their problems and their trust. p