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Eleanor Roosevelt — Part 11

94 pages · May 09, 2026 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Eleanor Roosevelt · 94 pages OCR'd
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a eH oa eit tug, fe ¥ i EO Reece ot a SRW Th . ee fines wish | rs F irst Lady Angrily Denies Stories z . — (mere Of Pregnant WAACS as Nazi Lies By Eve.tn Seevey PM's Bureeu ‘ WASHINGTON, June 9.—Rurmors that : | pregnant WAACS are being brought back » from North Africa by the boatload were al. ‘denounced. vesterday by Mra. En.snor \ 3 gy Uoosenett wt Navi propaganda. . Asked to”¢omment on” women serving Te ovérseas in view of the “recent controversy, Mrs, Roosevelt indignantly asked: “Will we ever get over believing Nazi jpropaganda? We fall for it the sume way, . jevery time, like children, ‘The Nazis have a itried exactly the same thing in Great ‘Hritain and in Canada. We know this, but st) we fall for it. “Pvc always believed in woineu serving overseas. Why not?” When the “recent controversy” was made specilic in Tumor campaign against WAACS in North Africa, which has cut dawn enlistment, the President’s wile exp : “This is just what the enemy wants us *.]to believe. There are four iivisions of WAACS takiny the place of four divisions of men. The Nazis don't like that. H we could get 10 divisions of women we could Ih Cs Z 5 JUN 19 1943 Pe pe be ao ee teplace HW) divisiuns of men. They don’t’ want us to do that.” Josephine Schain, only official U. S. woman delegate to the food conference, was Mrs. Roosevelt's guest when she met the press yesterday. What inspressed her most at Hot Springs, she said, was the way all the countrics worked together, without bickering or bitterness. Some down-to-earth reporters asked Mrs, Roosevelt about Americans, on Capitol Nill and elsewhere, who grow suspicions about our “feeding the workl” and even about rationing here. ° “There'll always be le wha don't sce beyond their noses.” Mrs. Roosevelt said, “Wo have to educate them and show them why.” A Correction PM regrets that, in listing persons praised as “sterling Americans” in the pro-Nazi publication, The O. s, it in- dicated that Gen. George Van Horm Moscley was among the 33 indicted for seditious conspiracy. He was not indicted. FB /. cs Cnptelignkiny the Source r= Bop A o/" 472 -
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