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^There could be no better monument for Wendell

Willkie than that those who loved him, near and far,

should strive to keep alive in their hearts the example

of his great and generous spirit, "-NEW YORK HERALD-TRIBUNE

WILLKIE MEMORIAL BUILDING FUNDO F F R E E D O M H O U S E

Sumner Welles, Honorary Chairman

D I R E C T O R S :

Charles Evans Hughes, Jr., President Herbert Agar

Harry Scherman, Vice-President

Mrs. Ward Cheney, Secretary

Herbert Bayard Swope, Treasurer

George Field, Executive Director

David Dubinsky

Marshall Field

Spyros P. Skouras

Walter White

SPONSOR'S COMMITTEE: Henry R. Luce, Chairman

Dr. William AgarDr. Henry A. AtkinsonMrs. Robert Low BaconHon. Jane M. BolinHarold ButtenheimCass CanfieldJames B. CareyDr. Allan Knight ChalmersVirginius DabneyHon. Hubert T. DelanyDr. W. E. B. DuBoisC. Raymond EverittReverend George B. FordDr. Harry D. GideonseArthur J. GoldsmithHon. Nathaniel L. GoldsteinMrs. Harold K. Guinzbunr

Dean William H. HastieHelen HayesPaul G. HoffmanHon. Stanley M. IsaacsMrs. Andrew JacksonJ. M. KaplanDr. Foster KennedyReverend William C. KernanWilliam LescazeWilliam G. LordThurgood MarshallElsa MaxwellHoward MyersHon. Ferdinand PecoraDr. Ralph Barton PerryMrs. Joseph M. ProskauerElizabeth M. Riley

Hon. Ira S. RobbinsDr. Guy Emery ShiplerSamuel ShoreDr. James T. ShotwellNathaniel SingerArthur B. SpingarnChanning H. TobiasCharles E. ToneyDr. Henry P. Van DusenRalph WalkerEdmund WatermanRobert J. WattW. W. WaymackWilliam L. WhiteRoy WilkinsMrs. Elsie B. WimpfheimerDr. Louis T. Wright

W^ENDELL WILLKIE was one of the founders of Freedom

House, and an active member of its board of directors

until he died. After his untimely death his fellow-directors

met to consider how they could best perpetuate

his memory and his vivifying influence upon American

life. They made the following statement to the public:

"It is proposed to establish afund for the purpose of settingup a Wendell Willkie MemorialBuilding in New York. In sucha place, under the aegis of a manwho awoke the conscience ofAmerica to its responsibility inthe world, the causes for whichhe and thousands of Americanshave fought for more than fouryears will inspire renewed andcontinuing devotion.

"The Board of Directors rec-ommends that on October 8,L945, one year after WendellWillkie's death, the committeeshall erect at the entrance of theproposed building a bronze tab-let bearing the following in-scription: 'Freedom House,Dedicated to Wendell L. Will-kie (1892-1944). We Carry OnIn The Spirit Of His ServiceTo All Men and One World'.Appropriate programs shall be

arranged in New York and othercities on the day of the dedica-tion of this building.

"The tragedy of WendellWillkie's death and the loss ofhis leadership mandates all ofus to carry on his fight. Themany causes for which he foughtshould be fused into one home,and a memorial building as acenter and headquarters forleading organizations would bea dramatic way of achievingthat fusion . . .

"Such a plan could do manythings to stimulate thought andkeep alive Wendell Willkie's mis-sion. We could establish awardsand scholarships to whateverextent there were funds avail-able. But the chief goal wouldbe the pooling of good will, themarshalling of all groups whobelieve in and want to work forthe 'One World'."

THIS 'ONE WORLD CENTER' will provide quarters for great national or localorganizations serving the causes to which Wendell Willkie so generously

devoted his talents and boundless energy.

Freedom House will be but one of a number of such organizations. TheAssociation for the Advancement of Colored People, for example, will surely

have its national headquarters in the building;, so will the most outstandingorganization seeking the improvement of housing and neighborhood condi-tions; another fostering international collaboration; another seeking to elim-inate racial and religious antagonisms; one striving to improve labor-employerrelations—and so on, covering the range of humanitarian causes in which Wen-dell Willkie was a fighting leader.

As many causes, as many great organizations, will be accommodated as spacein the Center will permit; and for others, which cannot have headquarters there,conference rooms will be maintained where necessary meetings may be held.This latter service will be of particular value to out-of-town organizations, whichfrequently have to meet in New York. Finally, a small hall will be providedfor public meetings and exhibits.

This challenging enterprise, unique as a memorial to an American whoseinfluence upon our time was historic, is on its way to being achieved. A Found-er's Certificate will be issued to all those who contribute, whether the gifts bea dollar or in the thousands. The Memorial Building itself will be a record,for all the future, of what his own generation thought of Wendell Willkie;this Founder's Certificate will be a record which each one of us may prize forhimself, as a symbol of our indebtedness to Wendell Willkie for straight leader-ship in an era of confusion.

Willkie greeted by Generalissimo andMadame Chiang Kai-shek in China.

"Our way of living together in America is a strong but delicate fabric.

It is made up of many threads. It has been woven over many centuries

by the patience and sacrifice of countless liberty-loving men and

women. It serves as a cloak for the protection of poor and rich, of

black and white, of Jew and Gentile, of foreign and native born. Let

us not tear it asunder. For no man knows, once it is destroyed, where or

when man will find its protective warmth again."—Wendell Willkie

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FREEDOM HOUSE^ TO AR

WENDELL L WILLKIEWE CARET ON IN THE SPIRIT OP HIS

SERVICE T O A I L M E K M D OINTEWORLD

O V E R THE ENTRANCE OF THE WENDELL WILLKIE

MEMORIAL BUILDING in New York, there will be a

bronze plaque, reminding all who pass and all who

enter that, in this center, the great human causes

which Wendell Willkie had so deeply at heart

continue to be served under his inspiration.

Willkie's home in Rushville, Indiana

Homage to Willkie . . . Though Silent He is HeardA dedication to Wendell Willkie delivered by Raymond Masseyat the opening session of the New York Herald Tribune Forum:

BY A R C H I B A L D M A C L E I S H

WENDELL WILLKIE was to have spokenfrom this place—on this day—in these

minutes. He will not speak here. He will notrise from a chair, arrange his papers, look upat you under that familiar forehead, speak.

Nevertheless, there is not one of you thatdoes not hear him.

The people of this republic — not ofthis city only but of all the cities—all thetowns, villages, cross-roads, and in every state—and not in the states alone but beyond them—beyond the Pacific—beyond the Atlantic—in small places in the interior of the farthestcontinents and at the river ports and the cara-van-rests, where the air fields have been con-structed—the people hear him.

For nine days now the people have heardhim as they have heard few others who havespoken to them in their history.

They have heard his silence. They haveheard the stopped voice — the uncompletedsentence.

Do you think it strange they should haveheard this? Do you think it strange that thepeople here and in other continents andcountries should have heard this silence?—should have listened? Are you astonished thatthe stillness of a voice should be heard so far—the silence of a man—and of a man, more-over, who had no title—no office—who hadnever held an office—whose campaigns foroffice had failed—who had not carried his own

country's suffrage or even, at last, the suffrageof his party?

Or are you not astonished? Does it seemnatural to you? Do you think perhaps thereis nothing strange in this at all—nothing towonder at?

Do you think perhaps the answer is simple—that Wendell Willkie was a man of characterand courage; that the world has recognized hischaracter and courage and so mourns him? Isit this you think?

Men of courage and of character have diedbefore and the people have not mournedthem.

Or do you think the answer may be onlythis—that Wendell Willkie undertook to rep-resent the people and the people are grateful?

There are many in every generation, inevery political campaign, who undertake tospeak for the people. The people are notalways grateful.

No. The explanation is not simple. But itis not strange, either. Nothing the people doby their hearts, by their deep instincts, iseither altogether strange or wholly simple.When the people mourn they do not mournfor a reason but for a man. Their own griefsurprises them. The mystery, if you wish tofind a mystery, is this: that the people knowthis man is lost to them; not to his hopes orto his future or his friends but them. It isnot of Wendell Willkie we must think but ofthe people if we wish to understand this.

How do the people know that he is lost tothem?

For this: because he trusted them and theyremember.

Because he trusted the people. Because hetrusted the people not in a form of words, orfor the length of a campaign tour, or as partof a political strategy, but trusted them.

Because he believed literally, and wordby word, and intending the meaning of eachword, the great American Proposition thatthe people—not the American people only,but the people—that the people can governthemselves, and of right ought to.

Because he believed, believed literally, be-lieved in sober earnest and without reserve,that if the great American Proposition istrue for part of the world it is true for all ofthe world.

Because he believed that the people are in-

divisible in their quality as the people, intheir rights as the people, in their humanityas the people.

Because he believed this not for his ownadvantage, but at the cost of his advantage;not for his own preferment, but at the ex-pense of his preferment.

Because he believed this with such intensityof conviction that he rejected the support, andrefused the favor, of those who would notbelieve it, of those who doubted the Proposi-tion, of those who reserved the promise of theProposition for themselves—for their friends,their kind, their country: because he rejectedtheir support and favor, no matter what theirinfluence or wealth or power or the clamorof their printed or their spoken words.

Because he believed in the people.Because he trusted the people.It is not strange that the people heard the

silence of his voice so far. The words he spokewere theirs. And they remember.

These words they remember. These are thewordk of Wendell Willkie:

"I was a soldier in the last war, and afterthat war was over I saw our bright dreamsdisappear, our stirring slogans become thejests of the cynical, and all because the fight-ing peoples did not arrive at any commonpost-war purposes while they fought. It mustbe our resolve to see that this does not hap-pen again.

"While they fight, the people of the worldmust come to a common understanding ofwhat they fight for and what they hope for.Millions have already died in this war andmany thousands more will go before it isover. Unless Britons and Canadians and Rus-sians and Chinese and Americans and all ourfighting allies, in the common co-operation ofwar, find the instrumentalities and the meth-ods of co-operative effort after the war, we, thepeople, have failed our time and our gener-ation.

"We must establish beyond any doubt theequality of men. And we shall find this equal-ity, not in the different talents which weseverally possess, nor in the different incomeswhich we severally earn, but in the great fran-chise of the mind, the universal franchise,which is bounded neither by color, nor bycreed, nor by social status. Open the books,if you wish to be free."

The people wrote to him all the time

BY SUMNER WELLESExcerpt from a speech by Mr. Welles

at a Freedom House dinner

AS the weeks have passed since the day] \ of Wendell Willkie's untimelydeath I believe that all of us recognizemore and more fully the value of theservices which he rendered to the peo-ple of this country. He had a clear visionof what is needed to create that betterassociation between peoples which it ispossible for us to achieve after our vic-tory is won. But what is far more thanthat, he had the courage and the deter-mination to fight untiringly for thosethings in which he believed. He had the

power which can only come from sin-cerity. His love for his fellow humanbeings sprang from his concept of whathe termed "One World." It was notconditioned upon their race, their color,or their creed. He held fast to the fun-damental principles of liberty whichhave made this country great. His voiceand his presence among us were nevermore needed than they are now. Theywill be missed in increasing measure inthe years which lie ahead.

The people of the United States willindeed be greatly indebted to FreedomHouse if it truly carries on "in the spiritof his service to all men and one world."

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Marching OnThere seemed a peculiar appropriateness

in the playing of "The Battle Hymn of theRepublic" as a postlude to the last rites of"Wendell Willkie. At that very moment thesense ol personal loss was intense for count-less people—tor men, women and children,for close friends, acquaintances, admirers ata distance. It is rare, indeed, that a publicfigure touches so deeply the hearts ol hiscountrymen. Yet, for all the poignancy offarewell, "marching on" sounded the one

right note.Such is, indeed, the miracle of greatness

The tragedy of so vast a loss—to the indi-vidual, to the country, to the world—widensthe horizon of every one. The pettinesses Qlevery-day life, of envy, of suspicion, of carp-ing, fade out of sight; the essentials re-main, Partisanship loses its force. Disagree-ments as to ways and means recede. An-tagonisms level out. The truth remains. Insober reality death is swallowed up in vic-tory.

It would surely be the deepest hope ofWendell Willkie that something of this spiritshould carry on. He, himself, was singu-larly devoid of party narrowness. The ideawas always first in his mind even when hisown personal political fortunes were atstake. The unity which his going away hasbrought momentarily to the nation is of apiece with his inmost nature. May it liveand grow and prosper! The country willsadly need solidarity in the difficult yearsahead. There could be no better monumentfor Wendell Willkie than that those wholoved him, near or far, should strive to keepalive in their hearts the example of hisgreat and generous spirit.

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FOUNDERS' CERTIFICATE

WILLKIE MEMORIAL BUILDINGOF FREEDOM HOUSE

The Officers and Directors of the Willkie Memorial Building Fund certify that

C O N T R I B U T O R ' S N A M E H E R E

is a member of the Founding Group

SUMNER WELLES, Honorary Chairman

HENRY R. LUCE, Chairman of Sponsors

HARRY SCHERMAN, Vice-President

MRS. WARD CHENEY, Secretary

GEORGE FIELD, Director

P R E S I D E N T

TREASURER

So that our indebtedness to Wendell Willkie and his leader-

ship shall long be remembered by each one of us, a Founders'

Certificate will be issued to every contributor to the Willkie

Memorial Building Fund, whether the gift be one dollar or

in the thousands. Contributions, which are deductible for

income tax purposes, should be sent to

WILLKIE MEMORIAL FUND OF FREEDOM HOUSE

16 EAST 48TH STREET • NEW YORK 17, N. Y.

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