Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-27

interest Is concerned and mott
waited only by the same vanity
and crowding political ambition
that have made her a political
boss in the guise OF a do-gooder
at home.
OTHER papers probably will
" treat themselves to a SINH
lar show of courtliness at the
expense OF truth and honesty.
which is their privilege. OF
course, but they are not kidding
those millions Of wives and
mothers of the United States
for whom Mrs. Roosevelt does
not speak and who will resent
the suggestion that she does.
II was a dead sure thing that
Mrs. Roosevelt, sooner or later.
would find some pretext to
justify a tDp to Britain, not
only because it is her habit
be going places all the slime, be
because Britain Is the base from
which her communistic and
social-democratic authorities or
feeders are now operating
against the preservation Of the
economic and governmental sys-
TEN of this republic.
Having failed to make a good
society at home, these British
nihilists have been trying 10
drag down the people of the
United States.
TQiE most influential of them
Il in the United States and
one of the most potent voices
in Washington is Harold Laski
of the London School OF Eco
Monies.
p 1t will be seen by any one
who has time for it and SUI.
ficient composure these days 10
concentrate on the subject that
we are now turning back 10
Europe for ideas on how to live
and manage a country which
grew up with none Of their
kings and fixed classes Of para
sites or their regional hatreds
and differences of languages and
whose ills therefore would not
respond 10 the medicines which
may be good for Britain and
continental Europe.
You don't see Laski around
Washington but his influence is
there all the time and il is
being imposed on the lives OF
Americans who never even
heard Of him.
IF WE recognize Mrs. Roose-
Il Welt as cunning and per-
sistent politician then we can
better understand her moves and
protect ourselves against the
deception which operates in -
guise OF gracious lady
privileged position.
OF course she is a gracious
lady but that has nothing TO
do with the case except to COM
plicate 1t.
For il is this graciousness and
this position of privilege, the
immunity from the same con-
formation that other politicians
must submit to. which enable
Mrs. Roosevelt to plant her ap-
pointees in influential positions
in the government. TO interfere
In official administration and
even to enact laws over the re-
fusal Of Congress, as in the case
Of her $4,000 income limita-
ton, without assuming any OF
the risks and/or responsibilities
OF the political game.
WHEN the politician Is chal-
w lenged, then the gracious
lady is affronted by a contempt
IDLE cad.
But IL you want some per-
sonal experience material you
get in touch with some Of the
newspaper people who were
prosecuted almost to despera-
ton by her Communist friends
in the Newspaper Guild while
she enjoyed a fake membership
subject to none of the risks and
suffering that real workers were
exposed to, or interview some
little merchant whose business
was ruined by a picket line
which Mrs. Roosevelt wouldn't
cross, because he wouldn't
drive his clerks into the
clutches of some union racket
GERS.
Mrs. Roosevelt isn't speaking
for the wives and mothers of
such Americans OF for the
wives and mothers who still -,
lieve that they and not the 81
should raise their children sY,u
that the home and not the
forum for the town council is
the basic unit of civilization.
II Is all right for Mrs. Roose-
welt to go to England but her
reasons for going should not be
misrepresented and Il Is neither
honest nor effective bushwah to
say that she bears credentials
even of the most general or fig
urative sort from the wives and
mothers of the United States.
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