title: A Leave of Absence from Death
abstract: Abstract This chapter examines the aftermath of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's death, with particular reference to its impact on Harry Hopkins's role for the United States during World War II. It first considers Hopkins's hospitalization due to nontropical sprue (or celiac disease) before turning to the speeches and pronouncements of Roosevelt and Winston Churchill about the Yalta conference. It then looks at the birth of the United Nations and the reactions of Hopkins, Churchill, and Joseph 