Wendell Willkie One World Pdf

December 19, 1987, Page 001027 The New York Times Archives In 1940, Franklin D. Roosevelt, breaking precedent, chose to run for a third term. Instinctively, rather than logically, the Republicans rejected their traditional isolationist leaders and turned to a lawyer-businessman who had never run for public office nor held a governmental post. Wendell Willkie was chosen in a grassroots political revolution that took the nominating process away from the political bosses. He was an Indiana farm boy, an outspoken critic of F.D.R.'

S domestic policies, an internationalist - and a Democrat until months before his nomination as the G.O.P. Willkie, who lived in Manhattan, was a courageous, powerful personality. He was admired for integrity, independence and for the Horatio Alger character of a career that had brought him wealth, fame and influence. He was also 'a womanizer.' Willkie's principal political lieutenant was a brilliant lawyer, Bartley Crum. Many years after the Roosevelt-Willkie campaign, I lunched with Mr.

Wendell Willkie was one of the most spectacular episodes in American history. After scuttling the World's Economic Con- ference as his enthusiasm for it.

I was a young lawyer and an uncompromising admirer of F.D.R. I never forgot one story he told. Kamusi ya kiswahili tuki. I always believed this was one of the bravado stories that emerge from campaigns. If the story was that well-known, why wouldn't the Roosevelt campaign have used it to advantage? Why wouldn't some magazine or newspaper have printed such a dramatic story, if only to prevent a competitor from scooping the field?

I regarded the story as more fantasy than fact - or, at least, I did until reading an admiring biography of Willkie that was written by Steve Neal. Neal writes of his subject: 'Willkie was a ladies' man and he looked for romantic flings.' Willkie's associates linked him with a variety of women ranging from secretaries to movie stars. Gardner Cowles, the publisher of Look, one of the nation's most popular magazines and a media owner of great power, who, with Henry Luce, used his publications to promote Mr.

Willkie's career, is quoted as saying: 'He was not at all discreet. I thought it [ his behavior with women ] was careless and stupid.'

Neal described the situation that occasioned Mr. Crum's reminiscence years before: Wendell Willkie fell in love. Irita Van Doren, the brilliant, widely admired book editor of The New York Herald Tribune, had divorced her husband. Willkie the following year and began a friendship that was nurtured by a mutual interest in books and the history of the South. Their affection deepened into a love that never wavered and that Mr.

Willkie never denied. They essentially lived together. They traveled together. They were invited together to the homes of friends and business associates. The columnist Joseph Alsop observed, 'They were very much like a married couple' - except that Mr. Willkie was married to someone else. As his Presidential aspirations became plausible, Mr.

Willkie's advisers urged that Mrs. Van Doren be kept in the background. According to Mr. Neal: 'Willkie resented the hypocrisy of politics and believed his private life was his own. He took chances that other political figures wouldn't take.' ' He even scheduled a press conference at Mrs. Van Doren's apartment.

'Everybody knows about us - all the newspapermen in New York,' he told friends. 'If somebody should come along to threaten or embarrass me about Irita, I would say, Go right ahead. There's not a reporter in New York who doesn't know about her.' Willkie apparently remained devoted to her husband. She is quoted as saying, 'I can find more pleasure in walking down the street with him than in anything else I know.'

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Van Doren feared that Mr. Willkie's nomination would end their relationship. The nominee assured her that they would resume once the election was over. (If he had won, would he have sought a divorce? I don't know.) Their relationship was never publicly mentioned in the campaign. Roosevelt won the election, but Mr.

Willkie became his ally in gaining crucial support for the policy of aiding Britain in resisting the dictators. Willkie's book 'One World' was a powerful force in guiding the nation toward the necessity of international cooperation and the creation of the United Nations. As the Democratic Party's morality play of 1988 unfolds with the return of Gary Hart to the campaign, the story of Wendell Willkie reminds us of a time when there was a distinction between 'public' and 'private' lives. (I do not write this in support of Mr. He has many long miles to travel before those who want the Democrats to win the 1988 election should make a decision about his candidacy.) If Wendell Willkie ran today, he would be considered fatally flawed.