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Eleanor Roosevelt — Part 2
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PICKETING OF MRS. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
On October 27, 1961, source advised that the
above program was picketed cr the night of October 26, 1961,
Approximately 50 to 60 individuals participated in the
picket, and distribution of litereture Participating
icke and distribution litereture, Participat
in the demonstration were the Florida States Rights Party,
Americans for Action Greup and membero of the John Birch
Society. One individu"! on the picket carried the
Confederate flag. Poli >» cre proce. duyrive the demon-
stration, no violence conred, and aancept fer an exchange
of insults thn demorst. 401 sre areerly,
The “Miami He.t1d", a Miny', Florida daily
newspaper, on Octcber ~ Y261, centrined the following
article capt‘! ned “Give Atom Bombs to UN -- Mrs. FDR",
"31 world's »tomic energy--including the
super hydrogen bomhs--should be turned over to
the United Nations to be uged toward universal
peace, tbe. ELEANJR ROOSEVELT declared in Miami
Thursday.
"'T€ that (ato nic energy) atays in the
hands of individual nations,’ she warned, ‘we
will never be secur.’
"lt must be «vled out as a means of total
destruction’ she tvid the crowd of 9,000 at
Miami Beach Auditorium.
"Mre. ROOSEVELT described the United States
and Russia as being deadlocked in ‘the most
dangerous game of poker that could be played.‘
"But she added hopefully: ‘In the United
Nations, what the Soviets are slowly doing is
turning the whole w>~lc sgainst then.’
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