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Eleanor Roosevelt — Part 9
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dnuspired Red revolution which already is in an advanced stage in the
South, Mr. Kamp says. ;
joint advertisement publishes
pealed for money, and,says Kemp:
“[llustrated with the usual ‘ailing baby’ pictures, the
“advertisement features a statement by Vice Presidential Candidate
Henry Wallace who once wrote praise of Lenin, Mussolini and Hitler.
The quotation ronds:
“'T have never sven ancng any poasantry of Europe poverty
so abject as that which extats from Arkansas on to the east coast.**
The American Legion, Mr. Kemp writes, “has been fighting
Highlander as a subversive enterarise since 1935; Gerald Foley,
president of the Tennessee Federation of Labor, has publicly brandi-
edit as 'Comiunistic',* .
Further concaming Mrs. Roosevelt the author writes: -
"'T an greatly interested tn what you are doing, for it is «4
much needed work,’ said Mrs. Roosevelt when she net with the stu-
dents and steff nenbers of Highlander at a supper they tendered her
at Chattanooga's Ross Hotel last April. She was accompanied by
Dr. Frank Grahan, once a board nenber of Soviet Russia's State Tini-
versity of Moscow Summer School for Training American Studants in
Comnunism. Also in the party were Gardner Jackson, former govern-
ment official lately involved in a plot to smear the Dies Connittee
and previously exposed as having been a regular contributor to a
Communist organization; and Kathryn Lewia, davgnter of Jonn L. Lewis,
who recently sided openly with the Conrunist faction in the New York
CIO sonvention.” ,
A photogreph in the booklet shows Mrs. Roosevelt in confer-
graduate and one of the founders of Highlander. Mr. Kanp quotes
Horton as saying that the school affords “an opportunity to direct
the Arerican revolutionary tradition towards cooperative society
operated by and for the workers", Horton ia the present Director
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