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Eleanor Roosevelt — Part 32
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‘We now know that no land or strata of society is or ean be immune |
te Communist infiltration. The Canadian spy disclosures of two year
ago and the sensational revelations of our own House Un- j
Activities Committes hearings and those of the Washington and Celi.
fornia committees have brought this home to al} of us, I most sincerely
hope. The curious delusion, no doubt propagated by Communists and
given wider currency by loud-movthed peende liberals and alleged inte-
ligentsi Communism springs from and is in poverty
taia, that ation now heen fairly hark x foal ‘i
BeVviawtn, mate degradation we =
destroyed. As one of the
it one day, he was simply astonished at the fact that nearly all
who had been implicated or who eelf-implicated themselves by i
¢o answer any questions whatever, came from so-called better class fami-
ent edineations were hich in echolarshin, had never toiled
Rae had svas
ens
cellent educations, in acholarship, had never t
with their hands, suffered a day's hunger or undergone any af the abuses
and hardships of our economic and social aystems which are supposed
to breed Communists. Most of the convicted Canadian spies were from
excellent families and uniformly well educated and well off. -
A classic example waa the Canadian who was a professor and turned
over some of Canada’s top secrets to Soviet agents, a man of wealth and
substance in the community and highly regarded. He was not a member
of a racial minority, never worked with his hands, never had been te
Russia, did not speak Russian and did not bave a Russian
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