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Eleanor Roosevelt — Part 29
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"Ilys, .avers then mentioned the fact thet 35,000 Americen eoldicrs were
killes et Bataan and laid the blare of this aefeet on the present .
Aditisistration end their lac!: of any effort to rive help or assistruce tr I
these trepped troons, cddinz further that the Adrinistratior saw fit io re-
move Generrl bacadrtlhur from Estean before these men lost their lives.
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“irs, Weters riveted thot the Administration in Washineton wes feeding to
the people a lot of propagande and that this war was not a war but na
revolution and that according to Communist literature all wers should end
in revolution.
"Frs, “eters elso referred to an article apoearin; in « recent issue of
Life magezine in which she wos mentioned and thet the article against her
was libelous end thrt she wes zoinz to sue this megezine for all it wes
worth. She added further that she had been encoged in this work for the
past 20 years and was willing to be a rnrtyvr to this cnuse so that the :
American people would have their eyes opened to what wns going on. She -
referred to the inquisition in Vieshington soing on now in the persecution
of patriots who would let the people know the true side of the situation.
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baloney os Communists end that the Aoministrat tion wes us thet office
and the office of the Department of Justice as a Gestspo unit under Biddle
end urged that the members present write letters to the President end their
Congressmen asking that the President end hr. Biddle be removed from of-
fice or impcached and also that a Congressionel investigation be made of
the Depertment of Justice end their Gestupo activities.
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"She also commented on the fact that General Nershell and Horry Hopkins were
in Londen urging the opening of © ‘second front' for our American boys to
die, while the British do nothing, while plrencus, tonks end other supplies
‘ere being sent to Russia end Englend ond Austrnlic while nothing is done to
relieve or assist our boys in Brtann, cs nc result of which 36,000 of thor.
were killed.
‘She elso added thet ths present Administration by their nets forcecd us
into this wer ond that there cre e lot of Communists in ‘Vashington, D. C.,
todey, mentioning Leon fienderson, Sidney] Hillman,’ lirs. Roosevult, Mavor
JlaGuardis end Mr Lendl of the Office of Civilian Defensc, nz Communistc.
She commented on the rubter situntion strting that thcre grows in this
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