Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 271, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1918 — ROOSEVELTS DESIRE BODY OF SON LEFT IN FRANCE [ARTICLE]

ROOSEVELTS DESIRE BODY OF SON LEFT IN FRANCE

New York, Nov. 18.—Theodore Roosevelt has authorized the announcement that he and Mrs. Roosevelt will visit the grave of their son, Lieutenant Querftin Roosevelt, who Was buried in France at the spot where he fell after his airplane had i been shot down by the Germans. Mr. Roosevelt, at she same time, made public an emphatic protest he had sent to General Peyton C March, chief of staff of the United States army, against the planned removal of his son’s body to this country. > General March,' in replying to Mr. Roosevelt, consented that Lieutenant Roosevelt’s body should remain in the grave in which it was buried by the Germans. He said he had instructed General Pershing to carry ■out Mr. Roosevelt’s wishes and had given the commander of the American forces general authority to take ithe same action in regard to bodies of other soldiers Whose relatives wish it. He said, however, that it was the policy of the government to return ito this country bodies .of soldiers killed in France. In his letter to General March, the former President referred to the report that the American dead would be taken home after the war, and continued; “Mrs. Roosevelt and I wish to enter a .most respectful but most emphatic protest against the proposed course so far as our son Quentin is concerned. We have always believed that “Where the tree falls, There let it lie.” “We know that many good persons feel entirely different, but to ’us it is painful andjjarrowmg long as ter death to move the poor body from Which the soul has fled. We greatly prefer that Quentin shall continue to lie on the spot’where he fell in battle and where the foeman buried him. ' „ “After the war is over Mrs. Roosevelt and I intend to visit the- grave and then to have a small stone put up, saying it is-put up by us, but not disturbing what has already been erected to has memory by his friends and American comrades in arms.