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of my nature and my prose, I have been accused of rudeness to Mrs. Roosevelt when I only said She was impu- dent, presump- fuous and = con- spiratorial, and that her with- drawal from pub- lic life at this time would be a fine public serv- ice. That is just an MP 3 opinion, and . PECLER there may be other opinions on the subject, but I maintain that it i¢ avnrsccad in nhacte and geantia. fs TAP OCOSES GM Chase aha genitite manly language and with no more vigor than most of us are used to in our discussion of controversial subjects. ‘Fhis lady is a meddler in many F majters which are very inyproper J: bujiness for the wife of the Presi-/j deat of the United States, a status’ wich is constantly invoked fo her lest her activities be objective- jy discussed as those of an ordi- nary citizen. os LONG AGO Mrs. Roosevelt meddled in the Newspaper Guild, which was a Communist organiza- thon. Absolutely ineligible even on the pretext of her public diary, which is not her principal occupa. tion, Mrs, Roosevelt nevertheless accepted membership to which she was not entitled and imme- diately became the political foe of all those American newspaper- men and women who knew the character of the guild, detedted and resisted the dirty work of tireless Muscovites and bravely suffered its heartless persecutions. She was granted membership because she was the President's wife and for no other reason, which meant that the Communists wanted to make use of her posi- tion. Thus the victims of the plot could not but feel the highest of- fice in their own country, the Presidency, was permitted to be ‘used against them in the interests of men and women whose mission was not to improve the lot of re- porters but to establish the Soviet Sv svemraaigovernment aete-ead they were absolutely right. | | i ocr +LEGAULY Mrs. Rotsetettaven as the wife of the President, has no more authority than any other citizen of the Republic. She is on a common footing with Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Jones and Mrs. George Spelvin, but we always treat our Madame President with a special respect because the office of her hushand. which she partekes of, is the highest temporal authority in our country. But when our First Lady commercializes that respect for profit and in competi- tion with the rest of the people by her association with persons who associate with enemies of the American system, antagonizes the people, it is she, not her critics, who fajls in respect far the office. Mrs, Roosevelt's quiet salting around of her personal friends in the Government employ is ne new thing, The Dies Committee has known of this for a long time, and has muttered about it, but the Dies Committee lives under a political. sword and has had to spyak softly lest Mrs. Roosevelt exfti her influence to starva it ofamoney with which to contnue ity, work, Mrs. Roosevelt has openly used her office against this + committee of the United States | Congress, ea pa a oo MRS. ROOSEVELT has abso- lutely no right to appoint anyone t ] to any public position, but now | it comes out that she has named one actor, one eurythmicist, or - dancer, and one secretary from ! her private pay roll to paid jobs : in the Office of Civilian Defense, ‘ and one professional youth-mugg to an unpaid position in the sams ; important department, The youth, incidentally, formerly was a faire ‘haired boy of the Communist ' Front, married a young campus cutie who has been infected with ihe Moscow principles and ceie- brated her marriage with a piece in a Muscovite paper entitled | “My Father Was a Liar,” was di- ! vorced, and now, at the age of 32, | ig held up to the American people, by Mrs, Roosevelt, as a person fit for leadership of American youth. He, also, is on Mrs. Roosevelt's private pay roll, the money for which is derived from the com- mercialization ef the Presidential office, One day in London, during ihe Jast war, one of the tabloids came out with a shocking scandal, exposing the fact that “petticoat government” had been established in Whitehall, and especially in the war office, whereby certain - favorites of an influential lady were planted in safe and cushy : jobs in Blighty. Winston Churchill would remember it well, for the lady was a relative of his. The ’ British reacted calmly, the lady’s ain got into the war. Stil. scrupulously avoiding im- politeness, I insist that Mrs. : Roosevelt’s activities have been j not helpful but, on the whole, very harmful, that she has been guilty of imposition and effrontery ' that, for all her pleadings against _ discrimination for creed and color, | has herself actively encoura®¥* cruel discrimination againp® Americans refusing to join Ww? _ iqna aubégefore she shaulg-tet | ears were slapped down and Erit- i t THE WASHINGTON POST Tehruarv 19 14/0 A Nhe Uhebd y aeey LP