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A ade 6 pre we Hurley to Gen. MacArthur, which concluded: “In yvur orders insist that any women and children who may be in the affected area be accorded every consideration and Kindness, Use all humanity consistent with the |] due execution of the order.” Nat a shoat oes fire NOL A BHO’ WHS fired by the army, which used tear gas when rioters showered it with bricks. No one ever gave an order or authorization to shoot, No veteran was hurt by the army. “The army did show force,” said Gen. Hurley. ‘The force was intended to show the radical leaders that a government by ali the people was still functioning and could not be overcome by an organized minority. No force was used.” To Mra. Roosevelt's remarks about “fear governing President Hoover's and Gen. MacArthur's actions, Gen. Hurley retorted, “] have never known any two. per- sons who were less affected by fear in formulating their course of action than these two men.’ To this complete refutation of what she had written ‘ Mrs. Roosevelt said in McCali’s, “I am glad to have . an authentic account published and I only wonder why ( it was not done much sooner.” t It was done much sooner. All of the facts that Gen. : Hurley adduced have been published, most of them in official documents, Mrs. Roosevelt merely revived the long discredited smear stories of Charley Michelson, ‘ the Democratic press agent, and her Communist friends, Gen. Hurley mentioned in passing the second bonus march in 1933. Hundreds of these bonus marchers, in whom the Communists lost interest when Mr. Roosevelt ee ssp pwow seals Soy st recognized Russia, were packed off to camps run by the veterans administration. In 1935 some 800 of them were still living on Matacumbe key and other islets off Florida. A hurricane threatened. It was testified later that the camp manager, after sending his wife and elerical staff to safety, told the veterans that if they tried to leave they would be restrained by bayonets. The hurricane atruck. 7 President Hoover did not cause the death of a single bonus marcher. On the other hand, Mrs. Roosevelt's" husband bears a heavy ohare ¢ of responsibility for the