From Eleanor Roosevelt, by Joseph P. Lash, 1964
A traveler on the night train to Washington, November 29, 1939, would have seen a curious huddle on New York�s Penn Station platform. A group of young men and women were clustered around a tall, stately woman in deep conversation.The earnest young people talking with Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt were leaders of the American Youth Congress and the American Student Union on their way to the nation�s capital in response to peremptory telegrams from the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Mrs. Roosevelt was returning to the White House after a dinner at which she had received an award from The Churchman,, a Protestant weekly.
When the telegram from the Dies Committee had first arrived, earlier in the evening, there was an initial inclination in the �cabinet� as the Youth Congress governing body was called, to play ducks and drakes with it. For fifteen months the Youth Congress has been clamoring for the opportunity to answer charges made at Dies Committee hearings that the Youth Congress was a communist front. In view of the short notice, should the Youth Congress now honor the telegram summoning its officers to Washington or should an issue be made of the committee�s highhandedness by demanding an extension of time?
Garden City, New York : Doubleday, 1964, page 1.
Comment :Mr. Joseph P. Lash,
Browsing through the text, I find a mention of one Justine "Polier", daughter of the Red Rabbi Stephen Wise, a contact of one Viola Bernard �Wertheim� — who was a contact of the Soviet mole Alger Hiss. It looks like �all in the family� :
�Every summer there was a picnic at Hyde Park for the troubled boys at Wiltwyck School, in which her interest had been engaged by Judge Justine Polier and Mrs. Louis S. Weiss. Frankfurters and ice cream were served, with the children of the John Roosevelts and her niece Ellie helping, partaking, and listening as raptly as their young guests to her reading of Kipling�s Just So Stories, especially their favorites . . . � (page 353)
Am I prejudiced somehow — or something, Mr. Joseph P. Lash — but the Roosevelts seem to have have been the greates dupes in the known human history (ever). (Should somebody have better information that this, please let me know).
More browsing :
"�In September . . . the Communist Party receiving new directives from Moscow and executing a 180-degree switch in policy, characterized the war in Europe as �imperialist,� affirmed both sides in it to be equally reprehensible, accused Roosevelt . . . .� (page 50)At last something real credible, "the Communist Party receiving new directives from Moscow".
Note :
" The French Communist Party wavered for a few days, torn between orders from Moscow and sheer inertia at having to leave positions which it had defended from 1935 right up to the eve of the German-Soviet pact." (A. Rossi, Russo-German Alliance, Boston, 1951.)Comment You did know, Joe Lash — did you not — that getting this country involved in the war was the last of the things FDR had wanted.
The 'peace' movement by you, Joe Lash, and your conspiracy (a.k.a. "no conspiracy") had as its sole aim furthering the spread of the marxist-leninist plague.
Otherwise, why so much junk, I'm asking you, Joe Lash, why so much literary junk ?
WPT