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Eleanor Roosevelt — Part 36

59 pages · May 09, 2026 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Eleanor Roosevelt · 59 pages OCR'd
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M® TRUMAN has discovered all of a sudden that the Communists of the world are dangerous people, are. But why is it the Communists are more dangerous in Greece and Turkey th n they are in Washington, D C.? Here he come to Congress and asks approxim: .ely half a bil- jion dollars to start an antl- Communist | program abroad that says to Russia plain as day, “If you want & WAT, we're teady.” Yet right now, today, this very Sunday, there are on the pay roll of the taxpayers of the United States Communists who are for Russia first. and have becn ever since Mr. Truman came to Washington & fresh- man Senator from Missouri, Is FACT they were in Wash- ington long before him. They came here his nredecessor in the presidency and laughed at Roosevelt #8 “the Kerensky of our revolu- tion.” They demonstrated power in the Roosevelt admin- yetration Tight at the start. Who remembrcrs the Inte Dr. William Wirt, of Gary, Ind. Dr. Wirt was & distinguished and liberal educator of world re own, thelr Washington to deal He came to sec what the brand new | was ilke. He didn’t come as & pay-roll patriot but as a plain ' patriot, wanting to find out _ what kind of people had riscn to power. That crack about Roosevelt _ being the Kerensky of the new American revolution wasn't the _ kind of thing he was used to in * American government and hav: ing heard it one night al @ New Deal dinner he atuck around to find out more. 4 wuer he found out was that the Communists and their fellow travelers had at last, with Roosevelt, got themselves into places of power and im- po; tance in our Government. Bo he eave warning. Did the newspaper editors and cvjere presidents and members ef Congress and other such opinion makers take him seri nusie? Well dots this writer wher how for instance the : tinguished Baltimore Bun and New York Times gave out gerntiemanis haw haws at pr. college presidents over followed up fay. and Tor Wort a lavehink stock. Tritt. Tle went ta his grave B bitter nil frustrated man while the ef the Ralt({more Sun New York Tines ang mabe minds editors Sans! (Re alt at} » continurd to say that { we must worry about fascism . and naszilsm abroad put as for communism, why it is not # problem and besides to criticize Communists would be red-balt- Ing and who wants to be a red baitert MEANWHILE. the Commtu- nists climbed aboard th taxpayers’ shoulders. They came in via the NYA, the NRA, the PWA, end the WPA, the ccc, the SEC, the FHA, and all the other early alphabetical trojan horses, They have never left. For when the war came on they simply shifted over to the OWI, the OSS, the OPA, and so forth. They put the Presi- dent's wife to work for them. They knocked down the barriers then even in the War and Navy departments. Communists be- came officers in our armed forces. And in time they showed their power by fomenting riots, rebellions and mutiny in our forces abroad. Hus it been for- gotten already how United States soldiers barely & ycar and a half ago gathered on the front steps of the U. S. Army head- quarters in Frankfurt, Ger- roany, and booed the command: ing general, Joseph T. McNar- ney? All in plain sight of the conquered Germans. HAT, eltizens, is a thing to think about if you wonder whether Communists have ever got into the Government of the United States in @ significant and serious way. Well, and when Oss. OPA, etc., began to fade, what hap pened to our Communists on the Government pay roll? Gen. George C. Marshall, See- retary of State, less than three weeks S00. admitted to a ¢om- mittee of Congress that thr rep- ulation of the once great U.S. State Department has failen “very low,” since the OSS, OWT, etc. crowd bad been blanketed Into it by the thousands, OR in with the rest. went the Communists. their fel- low travelers, sympathiecrs, dupes, dopes and tools. Such as these were the ones who ch: meshed Mrs. Frank'in Th Doose- yelt jn the Hanns Rasler Pass: port care, of which you will bo -- How about eLDKOP hearing Hanns Eisler, in case you may js the Holly- wood musical comp Lisler, now Have forgotten. of Gerhard by the House Russlan spy. The same committee promises a full public hearing on the queer detatis of Hanns’ own few days, and instruc- story in @ tive it will be, too, in “how things around here in heyday. AN? the trouble Is that Mr. Truman has not brought & substantial chanre. He is mak- talk at the Com- munists in Greece, Turkey, Ger- ing ferocious meny and so forth. It fs the kind of talk that as anybody who brings on war, detalls belvtc were jong. Un-American Ac- tivities Committee as & leading were | Mr Chey _ Mr. Gisvin Mr. Latd «7a Mr. NidfVer____. oser-brother Mr. Roseu : accuced ~ Mr. Tracy. Mr. Carson. Mr. Egan _. Mr. Gurren Mr. Uarbo as a lesson ° mm going Mr. Wendon _ Mr. Jones the Roosevelt Penningion__ Mr. Mr. Miss Gandy Quinn Tani Nease__ —o —_—\——- — = 4 . . was alive and reading the Pa- pers froth 1933 onward cam realize. But what is he doing abou: the Communists on the pay roll of the United States rignt here é What is in Washington, Dd. C.? he doing today and what was he doing this time a year REO? The Communists certainly Ake dangerous people, declared en- emies of our constitutional gOv- ernment which it is their aim and purpose force and violence. Why has ated them, just as dangerous they are to overthrow by Mr. Truman toler- then? They were a@ year ago as today and they were Just as dangerous 10 years ano. Yet here they are and here they were, all the time. How about lettin of 1 eral Bureau ISose on these gar Hoover on the Communists He knows more & than any he has the best them of any when Tacts, not oratory. Hoove nas been an exper, for 38 years. pout then other American ant- record against, American. And he speaks he deals_ in } - g the Fed. cn nvestigatjon it beauties? J. Ede, f r making #& H sclies of detatied addresses to the ' communism - while President and Congress listen to a Man who knows his whole nation on business? And then fnliawing Hoover's how about outline to kick the Communists out of our wo poe AN own USA. before Ried up in any affravs abroad? more bloody _ % 1% WAGRINGTOS ps Ghent
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