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Eleanor Roosevelt — Part 03
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Boardman
Be lnont
As Pegler Sees It:
Roosevelt Clan
CI
Myth Dispelled
Hollomar
By WESTBROOK PECLER
+
LLEANOR'ROOSEVELT at Iast has admItted the
L truth or my dlsclosure soon aiter the death of
her nusband that his grandfather, Warren Delano,
made money importing opium into Hongkong.
The
fact that Delano did shove narcotics on the helpless
Chinese mssses was well concealed untll F. D. Roose-
velt had been laid away in a "shrine"
at Hyde Park which Is still main-
talned at publlc expense.
Lire all other contributions to.
the myth of this sinister breed, the
current admission was written for a
price. It appears in.the Saturday
Evening Post.
The Roosevelt woman in her
self-serving attempts at excuse and
Justlficatlon, bas recently been
forced to regurgitate elements of
truth on both the oplum story and
PEGLER
the fact that he and she did prac-
Concerning "segregation" cr "integration," In the
White House, howerer. she tried to vanish into vapors
Of uncertainty and to lay it o!f to Mrs. Henrietta
Nesbitt. the official housekeeper who disclosed the
dismlssa! of the white servants left behind by Presi-
dent and Mrs. Hoover. Mrs. Nesbitt wrote that "Mrs.
Roosevelt and I agreed that a stai! solid in any one
Wash. Post and -
color worked in better understanding and maintained
Times Herald
a smoother-running estsbllshment... Mrs. Roosevelt
Wash. News
bouses."
Wash. Star
Last Norember. R. Carter Pittman, & Georgls
N. Y. Herald
Jawyer, called the turn on Mrs. Roosevelt's faise state-
Tribune
ment In her column in McCall's that the antl-Negro
clause in deeds to Roosevelt's warm Springs bullding
lots was but an unwilling submission to s 5tate law.'
American
Brought to bay, after exhausting every qulbbie, she
N. Y. Mirror .
Hinally wrote Pittman that Franklin might have sald
N. Y. Dally News
it was a "custom,~ not a law, which forced him to
N. Y. Tio*s
Jorbid Negroes forever to own or occupy lets mhish
Daily Worker
1sqox oq1
New Leader
13?
Date
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