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Eleanor Roosevelt — Part 32
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to print his statements. 'Do you know', he said, ‘that 99%
of the whites in Tulsa do not want negroes mixing with whites in
schools?' Ee then said he was not making anti-Semitic remarks,
but said, ‘I don't want a bunch of Zionists to rule the country or
\ Americans to lose racial self-respect. '
"He turned again to Hollywood, telling | of a picket line thet was led
* by Cantor and Edward G." Robinson wnen he was scheduled to speak in
e High School Auditorium. He said the picket line, which he called
‘a lynch mob’, contained 20,000 Commnists or sympathizers. He said
this proved Robinson and Cantor are in the orbit of Stalin propaganda.
He then turned to his wife who was on the stage and asked, ‘Who wes
the little wheezy fellow who received a medal from the Young Communist
League in the mid-1940's when he declared he was/going to run me (Smith)
out of the country?’ He was referring to Fr. inatra whom Smith said
received the medal as ‘Young Man of the Year.'
"Smith then began his discourse on the ‘Roosevelt Treason', but first he
mentioned his recent trip to San Francisco where he learned that little
school children had to wear tags 3 An order that they might be identified
in the event of an atom bombing: Smith then declared that his enemies
were popular, naming Walte , inchell, Olivia DeHaviland, Frank Sinatra and
others. He then intima men like himself were unpopular, and in the
same vein mentioned United States Senator Joseph McCarthy. He then said
he was going to give a birdseye view of several cvents. He began out-
lining the connection between England ‘se Socialism and Communism. Dis-
cussing the European situation he said, ‘France, Italy and Germany are
strongholds of Commnism.' He said the British economic leaders were
students of Harold Laski, British Socialist Leader who died recently.
He said Laski was a bosom buddy of Marxism. He continued by saying
America was closely linked with the Socialistic-Commnistic movement
since Felix Frankfurter, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, was a Jew and Marxist
advocate. He said the Justice and any President who allowed him to sit
on the bench should be impeached.
"Smith declared FDR as a villian, explaining why he continued to pick on
aman that was dead, ‘His ghosts are running for office across the
nation,' Smith laughed. ‘Any person with a mature mind, a student of
history who has studied his history, and who says FDR was honest, hasn't
caught up on his studies,’ Smith said.
"He then began his discourse on Eleanor Rbosevelt. 'Te only good thing
I can say about Eleanor is that she gave her old gold teeth to the Elks
Lodge,' Smith said. 'She has done more to hurt the United States than
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