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Eleanor Roosevelt — Part 14
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Nonpartisan Liberals Band
reliable, straightforward = in-‘actionary trend” last year when
formation available to the Ilarry S,. Truman was in the
people. We are going to All yw
this gap to the best of our: White House. She said that Mr,
ability through the National Truman was not at fault; that
Issues Committee. the real cause was lack of fac-
“This new, disturbing trend tual information in the hands of
also stems in part from a mias-: ‘the people.
fusion and unceriain-: wo
y on centusion 3 rtaken us in| She said that the National Is-
recent years, dimming our ob- sues Commititce began to take!
jectives and undermining our form last spring in a confcrence
eonfidence in ourscives and in she had with Philip Schiff,
each other. In this atmosphere, - : rt
the know-nothinz and the Washington representative f
demagogue have their oppor-‘the National Jewish Welfare
tunity and make the most of Board. Schiff is now chairman|
it, although they speak only of the executive board of the
for a tiny minority. ;
"The task we have set our-, ‘new commitice.
selves, thercfore, is to redefine. Other members the com:
the great issues which confront mitiee are Arthur J. Altweyer,!
this Nation, te restate them in Alan“Barth, May bicLeod a
simple and pupular terms as ob- thune, Charles i. nan,
jectively as possible, and to cafChapman, Clark a liftord,
see to it that the people get Mary A{\ Condon, Morris fF
the facts upon which the mak- Rogke shy. Dorothy Biktcrebe
ing of sound judgment de- ee rabam. A. INHayts
pends...” Leotherserling, Philip=Klut
A reporter asked Mrs, Bota nick, Murray tgoln. James
velt if her statement wacn't 1 Patton ftnahert R athean WaT:
fact. “an attack on the Eisen-‘ter PrSTeuther. S Emits tiew ~
hower Administration.” Barry WSSchacter, Rep phen’
S
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=D
She insisted that she was dea “Spingarn and Telford\[aylor.
Ing primarily with issues, and; a
she said the reporter had ta:
ask himself if President Eisen-|
hower was dealing property,
with those issucs. , vom.
At one point. however, she en
laughed and did openly disagree: _7
with General Eisenhower. A re-j o
porter told her ‘at the Chief:
Executis >, at a news conference, | .
had cited the Tennessee Valley: .
Authority as an example of; :
creeping soclalism. i
“] don't happen to agree with: -
that.” she said.
Mrs. Roosevelt, although in-!
sisting that the National Issues:
Commitice was nonpartisan,:
didn’t dispute a reporter's ob- Times-Herald ——
servation that it was top-heavy:
with Democrats. She said that,
members of both parties had! Wash. Post
been invited to join, but that:
far more Democrats had ae-! Wash. News —_—
ecoted.
See Prvor, excculive director Wash. Star —_
of Mic ‘tommitice. said it was
hoped that Republicans would
accept in time. Pryor used to
‘be a familiar figure in Washing-
N.Y. Herald Tribune
fen when he was a news tom- N.Y. Mirror —
- fWentator for the Columbia .
Broadcasting System. NY. Compass
Mrs. Roosevelt: said that she
first becanielauore of the “re-
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