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Eleanor Roosevelt — Part 03

35 pages · May 13, 2026 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Eleanor Roosevelt · 33 pages OCR'd
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0-1 {Rr. 10-23-57) 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 5 7 is
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