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Eleanor Roosevelt — Part 18

99 pages · May 09, 2026 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Eleanor Roosevelt · 99 pages OCR'd
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. a aE fom 4 =7 ey en coe is a the Yat 4 Mates and ob ihe moat p is Har. ' Leask, of the Loudon schoo] ui evonomics, and it wil) be geen by anyone whe has time for auages pod whew fle Lberefers! jsey nek teeponst te Use medicines! ‘ot voices In Was.ogten Cedtch may be good fer Britain ana}: tine nte Europe. You domt aev iLarkd around Washington but bls J intiuence ti thers al the time and Ut Ja being imposed on the ves of 'Ainecicans who peter aven heard of him, ' Graclous, but— i Ff we recurniza Mra, Roosevelt as /*% cunning and persistent pulltician ‘(hen We can better understand her ‘moves and Protect ourscives against the decention which operates in the [guise of @ gracious lady of privi- j flexed position, | Jf vourse phe In @ gracious lady jit tha? has nolbing 10 do with the ape except ta coniplicate it. For st jie this graci,usness and this posl- , tion of privilege, the Jmmuntty from the sane tonfermation that other (yelticiang must submit to, which jenahles Mra, Roosevelt to plant her -apycintess tm inffwential positions fin the government, to Interfere In ‘eftictal administration and even to *neact laws over the refusal ef con- igrese, as In the case of Ber $25,000 Income Hrtitatlon, without assuming ‘iny of the riske and/or responai- uillties of the polltical game, No Credentials, When the polittclan ie challenged then the gracious lady ia affronted iy ga contemptible cad. But it you “ant some pergunal experience ma+ _tferlal you get in touch with some ‘of the newspaper people who were ivernecute) almosi, to desperation by lher conununist friends in the News- ‘paper guild while ghe enjoyed a fake gembership gubject to none of the masks apd aufferiig tit real work- tra were exposed to, or interview ‘enme little merchant whose business ‘was rulned by a picket Hne which iMra. Roosevelt wouldn't crosa, be- jrause he wouldn't drive bie clerks ‘inte the clutches of the basic: unit of civilization, (| Mrs. Reosevelt ten't speaking for the wives and mothers of such ‘Americans or for the wives and j mothers who etl beleve that they ind not the state suould raise their children and that the home and not ‘the forum nor the town councll is the basic unit of ¢ivilization, } Jt io aft right for Mira. Roosevelt ,to go te England but her reasons ifor gulng should mot he miarepre- ecnted and it Ja nelther honest ‘nor effective bushwah to say that she beara crcdentials even of the inoat general or figurative sort from the’ wives abd mothers of the Unit. ed States. om eee ooo # c s ts t a ¢ aoa. Oe oe oe IT ECE ELAS
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