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Eleanor Roosevelt — Part 14

88 pages · May 09, 2026 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Eleanor Roosevelt · 84 pages OCR'd
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/ ROOSEVELT —f7-Py I Nonpartisan Liberals Band reliable, straightforward = in-‘actionary trend” last year when formation available to the Ilarry S,. Truman was in the people. We are going to All yw this gap to the best of our: White House. She said that Mr, ability through the National Truman was not at fault; that Issues Committee. the real cause was lack of fac- “This new, disturbing trend tual information in the hands of also stems in part from a mias-: ‘the people. fusion and unceriain-: wo y on centusion 3 rtaken us in| She said that the National Is- recent years, dimming our ob- sues Commititce began to take! jectives and undermining our form last spring in a confcrence eonfidence in ourscives and in she had with Philip Schiff, each other. In this atmosphere, - : rt the know-nothinz and the Washington representative f demagogue have their oppor-‘the National Jewish Welfare tunity and make the most of Board. Schiff is now chairman| it, although they speak only of the executive board of the for a tiny minority. ; "The task we have set our-, ‘new commitice. selves, thercfore, is to redefine. Other members the com: the great issues which confront mitiee are Arthur J. Altweyer,! this Nation, te restate them in Alan“Barth, May bicLeod a simple and pupular terms as ob- thune, Charles i. nan, jectively as possible, and to cafChapman, Clark a liftord, see to it that the people get Mary A{\ Condon, Morris fF the facts upon which the mak- Rogke shy. Dorothy Biktcrebe ing of sound judgment de- ee rabam. A. INHayts pends...” Leotherserling, Philip=Klut A reporter asked Mrs, Bota nick, Murray tgoln. James velt if her statement wacn't 1 Patton ftnahert R athean WaT: fact. “an attack on the Eisen-‘ter PrSTeuther. S Emits tiew ~ hower Administration.” Barry WSSchacter, Rep phen’ S _ =D She insisted that she was dea “Spingarn and Telford\[aylor. Ing primarily with issues, and; a she said the reporter had ta: ask himself if President Eisen-| hower was dealing property, with those issucs. , vom. At one point. however, she en laughed and did openly disagree: _7 with General Eisenhower. A re-j o porter told her ‘at the Chief: Executis >, at a news conference, | . had cited the Tennessee Valley: . Authority as an example of; : creeping soclalism. i “] don't happen to agree with: - that.” she said. Mrs. Roosevelt, although in-! sisting that the National Issues: Commitice was nonpartisan,: didn’t dispute a reporter's ob- Times-Herald —— servation that it was top-heavy: with Democrats. She said that, members of both parties had! Wash. Post been invited to join, but that: far more Democrats had ae-! Wash. News —_— ecoted. See Prvor, excculive director Wash. Star —_ of Mic ‘tommitice. said it was hoped that Republicans would accept in time. Pryor used to ‘be a familiar figure in Washing- N.Y. Herald Tribune fen when he was a news tom- N.Y. Mirror — - fWentator for the Columbia . Broadcasting System. NY. Compass Mrs. Roosevelt: said that she first becanielauore of the “re- —_— | ~ Dare: 05> a¥ 330 -A 2
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