I EXPECT I would have voted for Herbert Hoover, but Franklin Delano Roosevelt certainly knew when patriotism trumped partisanship. As England was being pounded in the Blitz by the Luftwaffe,
At a time of unprecedented political and economic upheaval set in motion by the First World War and its aftermath, Edward Joseph Phelan and Seán Ernest Lester became leading figures in the two major international organizations born out of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 for Phelan, the International Labour Organization (ILO); for Lester, the League of Nations. They grappled with the consequences of war, the failures of peace-making, the disintegration of empires, and the rise of nation states. They encountered the ascent of communism, fascism and nazism, and the outbreak of a second devastating global conflict .
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The three-term Republican governor of NH, FDR appointee, and ambassador to the UK put country ahead of party and was the soul of integrity. Let’s hope his kind hasn’t been consigned to history.