In Stride

Like 135,000,000 of his fellow citizens, Franklin Roosevelt spent the week waiting for new invasion bulletins. And as the scanty news trickled in, the President, like his fellow citizens, took it steadily, neither optimistically, impatiently nor fearfully.

Mr. Roosevelt was feeling fine. For the fourth time in the last four months, his personal physician, Vice Admiral Ross T. Mclntire, reported on the President's physical condition, stating again that the President's health is excellent. But he insisted that the President keep to his new lighter schedule.

On this regimen, Franklin Roosevelt had no business appointments at lunch, took swims in the White House pool. But he made news: he casually mentioned that General de Gaulle had asked to visit him (see FOREIGN NEWS). He said he had given the General two dates for the visit: June 22 to 30, or July 6 to 14. A newsman asked: why these dates? They were the first available, said the President. "There's a convention coming in there," said the newsman. Oh yes, the President replied, there are conventions about that time, and elections next fall, and Christmas is coming soon.

The President also:

P:Announced that 1,000 refugees from Italy would be brought to this country and temporarily housed at Fort Ontario, N.Y. These would be all the refugees brought to this country, he added. P:Signed a bill which raised the U.S. debt limit to an astronomical $260 billions, and, at the same time, lowered the three-months-old cabaret tax from 30% to 20%.

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