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Eleanor Roosevelt — Part 37

17 pages · May 13, 2026 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Eleanor Roosevelt · 17 pages OCR'd
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Bx. NNELL r RS. ELEANOR/ZOOSEVELT is one of our fel paid up, etc., in our CioAiewgnapsr Cujid. The. Lady of the Land joined our union right after sh. r job of pounding out a datly coluan. Row with all modesty. ol course, but becaue t ars an older Dand at the repeyting buinees than Mrs. Rooseveit, w. have to the tnside Whlte House story of Pearl Harbor-how she . ber busband expected the sttack alt along. Mrs.R. doesn't make it clear The White House didn't tp. I tbe Army and Navy defenders eari Harbor but she coe pauqny dau pus ayt aaya yonnhaaai ay yin Aaym pioo ino (Frankiin Deiano Rooseveit> cxpecied ths jap atteck ali siong. olige the crdinary citsens oi ths Republic. and. incidentally. our smed forces Now in this case. Hrt Roosevelt yas dealing with politicaj ax piosives in thia prendtntlaj campaign. The mystery ot Ftar)d Marbor sad the succesfu! effortu of the Fourth Termers to shut Nf any bonest Investlgation and the white House blocking od Juble triais ol Admiral Kimmel and Genersi Short, 4 an twue which Republlcan Dewey has used tffectively airesdy and will pound at more furlously in ths ciosing day of the cazpeim A Sortnigbt ago, Mrs. Roosevelt wa Intervlewed by competent. ptrlenced Reporter Kathleen McLaugh!in of the Ntw Yort Tie Yort Times Magazine. It a much better piece of writing and talls more news than anything sister Gulldswoman Ehesnor Rooe reit avet wrote in y Day." AY back in the story (this should have been up in the Jesd, Miss McLaughlin) the wife ol the Comumander in Chei roes ck to her mtmories Pesrl Harbor day. Reports the Time Intrviewer: One el the mrmores she rMrx. Kneserell) will lake with ber fram the Whlle Hoose. no patter what the date nt her utimate "Actually, ahe iMrs. Rooserelt) recajls. there wss only uttle ore commotlon than ysual foliowng receipt thst morning by th Preaident of the hatoric messsge from Pear! Harbor.* Then ths reporter tell the story of thg white Hous IS0-7326x wfeof the stdea Hrin wat Jest like any of the later D-Dayn t Rastered at the radie snd awaited rer mere detxils NOT RLCORDED far frmm the shnck It prored t jhe reuntry in kenctat, 87 oCT 14 1944 No had exyected wmgthing +t the srt Iet s lnng tim Jow we thomughty seret with.these words spoken by the wife of the President that both she and her husband received the Ube wrdinary citisens of ths Republio snd tht Army axd Navy pmanders at Hawaif. O eoure. It might have helped out the Army and Nary co QTHZH-SEHII NOIONIHSYM od at Havali in those days uf Mn. A. had writtea a moali MORNING SDITION /O-/- Junsdra # a pusqtny aay pas zus ieu jui* asp uy a} ma Moething to break-txpectins.we pean. in the wns that beth thwm knew that uhe wecret uttrnstum toueed on August 11, Hot war. FEB 8 19F2 Ths w kept secret,ef coure.aod mht hav sde oo Mrgreph fot Mra 4.'s y Day cotut c in tha
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