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Eleanor Roosevelt — Part 18
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iLarkd around Washington but bls
J intiuence ti thers al the time and
Ut Ja being imposed on the ves of
'Ainecicans who peter aven heard of
him,
' Graclous, but—
i Ff we recurniza Mra, Roosevelt as
/*% cunning and persistent pulltician
‘(hen We can better understand her
‘moves and Protect ourscives against
the decention which operates in the
[guise of @ gracious lady of privi-
j flexed position,
| Jf vourse phe In @ gracious lady
jit tha? has nolbing 10 do with the
ape except ta coniplicate it. For st
jie this graci,usness and this posl-
, tion of privilege, the Jmmuntty from
the sane tonfermation that other
(yelticiang must submit to, which
jenahles Mra, Roosevelt to plant her
-apycintess tm inffwential positions
fin the government, to Interfere In
‘eftictal administration and even to
*neact laws over the refusal ef con-
igrese, as In the case of Ber $25,000
Income Hrtitatlon, without assuming
‘iny of the riske and/or responai-
uillties of the polltical game,
No Credentials,
When the polittclan ie challenged
then the gracious lady ia affronted
iy ga contemptible cad. But it you
“ant some pergunal experience ma+
_tferlal you get in touch with some
‘of the newspaper people who were
ivernecute) almosi, to desperation by
lher conununist friends in the News-
‘paper guild while ghe enjoyed a fake
gembership gubject to none of the
masks apd aufferiig tit real work-
tra were exposed to, or interview
‘enme little merchant whose business
‘was rulned by a picket Hne which
iMra. Roosevelt wouldn't crosa, be-
jrause he wouldn't drive bie clerks
‘inte the clutches of the basic: unit
of civilization,
(| Mrs. Reosevelt ten't speaking for
the wives and mothers of such
‘Americans or for the wives and
j mothers who etl beleve that they
ind not the state suould raise their
children and that the home and not
‘the forum nor the town councll is
the basic unit of ¢ivilization,
} Jt io aft right for Mira. Roosevelt
,to go te England but her reasons
ifor gulng should mot he miarepre-
ecnted and it Ja nelther honest
‘nor effective bushwah to say that
she beara crcdentials even of the
inoat general or figurative sort from
the’ wives abd mothers of the Unit.
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