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.

The time is coming when considerationsof groups, blocs or ideologiesarebeginningto giveway to the understandingthatpeace is a supremevalue.Onlyif peaceis translatedfromdeclarationsinto practicalaction is therea chancefor survival.( 3 ) WENDELL WILLKIE: ONE WORLD This call for a new way of thinking,which the presentAdministration andthe. One World is a manifesto and a travelogue written by Wendell Willkie, a liberal Republican. Create a book Download as PDF Printable version.

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. I was a young lawyer and an uncompromising admirer of F.D.R.

I never forgot one story he told. 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. Tmpgenc authoring works 4 full crack. 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.