The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-08
BY WEsTBROOK PEGLER


NEW YORK.-Asked to give her honest
opinion of the author of these dispatches
Mrs. Roosevelt writes in her department in
the Ladies' Home Journal, that che has been
my guest twice, once a, the White House and
once at Hyde Park but I had very little op-
portunity to talk to him. 500
Well, if we are going into social matters,
there were two other occasions. the picnic
at Haywood Brouns and the ore at George
Bye's in New Canaan but 1 agree that the
opportunities for serious exchange of views
were negligible because p e o p E do f1utter
around Mrs. Roosevelt and do not speak freely
or frankly. There are always some who talk
baby-talk. Others post themselves in the po-
sition of protectors and would gang you to
death with political clinches ard moreover,
etiquette holds that if Mrs. Roosevelt her.
self desires to speak, as sne not infrequently
does everyone else either listens in silence
or tp-toes off to the bar-table which is what
did at the Brouns and the Rye's although
not at the White House or at Hyde Park
where I didn't know my way around and
there may have been no bar.
But this is a silly question, anyway. 1t
makes no difference what MIS- Roosevelt
thinks of me vice versa because there you
get into personalities which are not issues at
all.
have never understood why some indi-
viduals have thought l was rude or hostile
to Mrs. Roosevelt personally because in my
view she is powerful and slippery politician
and | have always treated he as such. If
she had not chosen to be politician l prob
ably would not have mentioned her name
more than half a dozen times in all these
years. But inaSmuch as she made that choice
and has worked early and late at politics
have reckoned that she was a fair topic
for discussion, opposition and criticism.
Very early n ha Mrs Poocaxyet
copied honorary membership il: the News
paper Guild of which also was member
She was not eligible as 1 would undertake to
prove if Mrs. Roosevelt would ever face that
question which she has consistently refused
to do. but nevertheless she took active
part in the Guild and on the side of the COM
munist administration at that, and this nat
urally made great many newspaper work.
ers feel that she was against them.
| Again, Mrs Roosevelt publicly refused to
cross picket line which was nothing but
racket, placed in font of New York
theater by the musicians union which is, it.
self great greedy racket and the very model
OF union dictatorship She said that fair
or unfair she would not eros. picket line.
l said and still maintain that there she took
her stand on the side of the racketeers in
unionisn whom / am against
Again, Mrs Roosevelt proposed that all of
us, men and women, be drafted or war work,
which would mean that mothers should be
taken out of the homts a,.d The kids taken
over by some kind of public nothering au-
thority. Considering that broker homes are
the main causes of juvenile delinquency and
crime l am altogether agalns this proposal
and l am further suspicious OF the probability
that by this means al those so drafted for
labor men and women both, would have to
join the unions which use their taxing power
to maintain her party in power So I am
against her there, too
Still again, Mrs Roosevelt proposed an in
come limitation lifted out of the Old commu-
mist platform When Congress refused to ap-
prove it, her husband Tried t. jam it through
by executive order. He then wa rebuked and
thwarted by Congress. l Just say that Mrs
Roosevelt has no right to MAKE laws for US
passing on suggestions at breakfast. and T
insist that there is nc personal impoliteness
IN opposltlon to such presumptuous conduct
l say Mrs. Roosevelt had nc right to f1,
10 england or to the South Pacific And con-
tend that she has exploited the office of tbe
presidency for great private financial oai,
and that this, too, was wrong thoupb not
illegal. 1o"sn hot
Every time l have met Mrs Rooseue14 r
nave oeeh SO polite my friends wouldn't know
nr.,' au =. was not bad manners of mine th.+
] peventea another such meeting The 49,
''aNferS cape from her size For havin -