—BERTOLT BRECHT

From The Twenty-year Revolution by Chesly Manly, 1954

In 1939, Mrs. Roosevelt put pressure on Sumner Welles, Under-secretary of State, to reverse a previous ruling excluding Hans Eisler, German communist musician, from the United States. Hans Eisler is a brother of the Gerhart Eisler who jumped bail and escaped from this country a few years ago and later became propaganda commissar of the Soviet puppet regime in East Germany. Mrs. Roosevelt wrote to Welles on February 7, 1939: �This Eisler case seems a hard nut to crack. What do you suggest?� The nut was cracked by permitting Eisler to obtain an American visa in Mexico City.

( pages 45-6 )

Chicago : Henry Regnery, 1954.