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rs’ —— oa + , ~ att a ne ta) . ra _- ° : oe — fo 7 - * . ee wot ee Pars a «* ¢ q f TF Eleanor Set Right — , ™ Patrick IsUurley, using the language of a cavalier, has patiently but firmly set Mrs. EleanoreRooseveit right about the Washington bonus marchers and what happened to them in Washington. Mre. Roosevelt re- \ cently gave a completely distorted account of the matter in McCall's magazine. She wrote, in connec- \ tion with the second bonus march in 1933 under her husband's administration: “The first march, which had taken place in Mr. Hoover’s administration, was still painfully fresh in everybody's mind. I shall never forget my feeling of horror when I realized that the army had actually heen ordered to fire on the veterans. This one inci- dent shows what fear can make people do. Mr. Hoover was a Quaker, and Gen. MacArthur, his chief of staff, ' must have known how many veterans would resent ’ the order and never forget it; he must have known, ’ too, the effect it would have on public opinion. Yet they . dared do nothing else in the face of a situation that frightened them.” Gen. Hurley marshaled his facts well, The salient ones follow: Most of the real veterans who took part in the 1932 bonus march went home when congress made an appro- encei sevaei ils aie fare 7+ SRS priation for their fare. Leadership of the marchers, who had shacked up in downtown Washington on land condemned and par- we ne tially cleared for new government buildings, fell into the hands of criminals and Communists. The FBI finger- printed 4,334 of the last ditchers, and found that 1,069 of them had criminal records, Gen, Hurley quoted Benjamin Gitlow, an ex-Communiat, to the effect that the representative of the Communist International turned purple with rage when “the plan to bring about in Washington a massacre of the hunger marchers as a result of provoked violent clashes with the authori- ties did not materialize.” The Comintern spent $200,000 in its efforts to promote this bloodshed, Gitlow wrote. President Hoover instructed Gen. Hurley, then seth retary of war, to use the army to evict the marcher! from their shack town after the squatters had repulse ‘ Washington city nolice in @ riot in which many police r rr eos ge wee why Vise gis @ £84 S88 Che te ee te ee ee ed -.y | Were injured and two veterans killed by police fire. issued by Secretar This clipping is from ex the morning edition of . The Washington Times Herald Date -73 “4