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se ‘ This kind of thing is bad for all young people, particularly if they know and admire the character of the-person involved. I would stake everything I have, and so would sy-aon, Franklin, Jr., who worked with Joe in the last campaign and who offered to write a letter to the Navy saying that he is a high, idealistic young man, thirty odd, who perhaps was too radical when he was young, but who will always wrk for the good OF the majority of the people as fer as all interests are concerned. . He is a Jew. Perhaps, that is one more reason oy I am con- cerned not to see him unjustly treated. If they have something convincing Sde of the things which he wrote as a youngster when organizing the Student Union, which he also left when it became controlled by the Commnists, I “would like to know what it is, and I certainly think it would be fair for him — to know. I am doing this not because of one individual. I an doing it because of its effect on many young Peoples . . Very ‘sincerely yours, /s/ Eleanorffiosevelty Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt Assistant Director The Honorable Francis G. Biddle . The Attorney General Department of Justice Washington, D. C.