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Eleanor Roosevelt — Part 34
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"away with the so-called ri:hts of Americans to propagate warmonger—
ine because if you do away with this so-called rizht, you will be
doing away with freeizm of the press ani freedom of speech in the
United States, Now dcesn't this sound very familiar to us? Because
just a few days azo President TRUMAN had a vress conference and he
talke? about price control and didn't he say the very same thing
about that and if you have price control in this country you would
be doing away with a free state, you vould be introducing a police
state? So then Mrs. ROOSEVELT is echoing the most reactionary argu-
ment put forward by the warmengers forces in our om country.
" Sse I tell you that it is ironical that Mrs.
ROOSEVELT was chesen because of the fact of her lone libcral and
prerressive backsround and because she is the wife of the great
lamented Presiient ROOGEVELT; bociuse President ROOSEVELT had a
different policy with respect to warmongers, with respect to Fascists
and aggression and we find that policy he expressed it in his famous
Sleran, 'Quarantining the Ageressér ', At the time in this world
when the Fascist aggressors threateed the »eace and security of the
worl’, President ROOSEVELT didn't say that they had the risht to do -
that - that they had the right to propagate their warmongerin7 ideas,
etc., because he believed in freedtoin of speech, expressicn, vtec.
Cn the contrary, he said that they were a monace ts the peace of the
worl: ud the people cf our country an! they hai te be quarantined;
they hal to be isolated, they had to be crushul.
" Well, it is well reco-mizec in our country that
when there is a disease an! when there is an epidemic we take stons
to isolate ani to quarantine that epidemic. And nobody talks about
when there is an upideaie cf dipthoria cr scarlet fover or sanething
like that — ’ that we shouljan't take quirantine measures be-
cause .f the so-ealiot ‘winciple of freetem of health. Well, first
tare the american Medical Association. They are cmosel to social-
tact ooteine anl tho: are opposed to health insurance on this very
or a of freedom of medicine in this country. Now the main issuc
io. 1. ” luring this question -f warmongering is not a questicn of
freetom of the press or specch at all, It is a question of curb-
ing the crimiml] warmengering tmt is new ramouint in this country am
if the press talks about, well, these people that’are warmoncers,
they don't really express the views of Government, etc., nor the
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