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| | ! ali i Nrs, Bieanor Roosevelt, the well known celumnist, has challeaged the usefulness of an official American Legion in her syndicated column “My Day,” She additionally attacks The American Legion for its fight against the international conspiracy of communis, . The American Legion has no quarrel with Mrs, Roosevelt, It has the deepest respect for what her family's name has signified on the American scene, The Legion has, however, often disagreed with Mrs, Roosevelt's obvious willingness |. defend the Soviet Union, Many thousands of our country's veterans, in respecting her right to express personal opinions regarding comauniem, feel that she should speak from a factual basis rather than voice opinions based upon social pleasure junkets to Russia, There is no doubt as to Mrs, Roosevelt's ability as a journdlist and her broad experience as a traveler, There is considerable doubt that she | nas seen or heard anything in Russia other than what the Kremlin has allowed her to see and hear, There is ample room fer believing that Mra, Roosevelt's utterings has contributed to complacency and lethargy insofar qe the alerning sprea of communism ig concerned, Mrs, Reosevelt's ailegations agsinst The American Legion seems to be two-feld: (1) That ovr constant battle to expose the avowed enenies of the free world ie needless and souctines based upon innvuendoss (2) That the Legion, in its December, 1958 edition ef "The Firing Line” in exposing certain activities within the fitid ef religion was, in