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> La - es + > ?. * ae, ‘Custom’ Is Debatable —_— Pittman, 8 great suthority on the subject, insists - that there never was such 8 isw. A “custom” would be debatable but anyway the widow now pleads the grand fraud guilty of mercenary submission to bigotry. She apparently forgot that fn her first book, prat- tled in 1939, she put herself dead to rights. Discuss- ing her probiems in Washington, she wrote: “I decided that life would be simpier if I took colored servants... which would obviate my having to find new white ones... Perhaps !t is just the Southern blood of my ancestors but I have enjoyed my contact with such colored people as came to work for me. I...com- pletely staffed my house with colored servants.” _ The opium question is handled thus, slightly shrunken to save space: “For years some American political writers opposed to the New Deal asserted that my husband's family had made money in the wpium trade in the days of the clipper ships..,At Hongkong, a British merchant gave me a history of the China trade which showed that all forelgn mer- chants had to obtain permits and that, to get a per- mit they had to agree to take a small amount of opium, too. So 1 suppose the Delanos, like everybody else, had to include opium in their cargoes to do any trading at all.” This is false. The truth is on record tn old docu- -* ments. Delano and others forced great chests of é opium on the Chinese coolies, exploiting their hor~ - rible addiction for dirty money and Delano was camp eook for a colony of British rascals in thelr fortress during the historic Oplum War waged by the Chinese ZQynperor in a futile effort to deliver his people from their bopeless condition. eprgett. £60, Ems Patera Sendants, bee.) a= Ms-sPegier's next column appears here ¥TRIY.” See ee <P Cee cere