Evening star., 1946-03-15
Churchill Proposal
Bars Vital Peoples,
Says Mrs. Roosevelt
picture on Pace B-3.)

Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt last night
took issue with former Prime Min
ister Churchill's proposal for a
ffraternal association" of English
speaking peoples.
While this country cannot forget
the wartime leadership of Mr.
Churchill, Mrs. Roosevelt told more
than 1900 women gathered to honor
her, I'VE should not have our vision
clouded by thinking that the Eng
disappearing peoples of the world
In spite of their strength today-can
get along without the far greater
numbers of people who are not Eng
lish speaking"
Mrs. Roosevelt, this country's only
woman delegate to the United Ma
tions General Assembly, declared
the United States has always been
isolationist at heart but she warned !:
IF we still think our domestic
affairs can be isolated from world
affairs, then I'm afraid the future
Is veey dark and our vision very
narrow.
Urges Collective Force.
eff we forget in our concern with
our own affairs what is happening
in the rest of the world, we are en-
dangering the rest of the world, but
also ourselves just as surely"
She emphasized the need to build
collective force which could be
used by all nations. Otherwise, she
said, "we cannot cut down individual
forces"
The United States, she commented,
had been fortunate in being spared
the devastation which has forced
European peoples to live in cellars
and eat barely enough to survive,
but she added, 'We were spared for
purpose. If we cannot rise to this
challenge, then perhaps we will not
be spared again."
Leadership must come from the
United States because Europe has
many living dead people," Mrs.
Roosevelt declared. The young peo-
pie of Europe with the makings of
leadership. she added have spent
the past five years in the resistance
movement.
THE virtues of resistance we're
lying, cheating, stealing and killing"
she pointed out. Now we tell them
those things are criminal offenses.
That's something hard to learn
overnight"
Connally, Wallace Speak.
Senator Connally of Texas, chair
man Of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee and delegate to thel
United Nations Assembly, and Sec
retary of Commerce Wallace led the
tributes to Mrs. Roosevelt at the din
ner. given at the Mayflower Hotel
by the Women's Joint Congressional
Committee.
The presence of Mrs. Woodrow
Wilson at the head table prompted
Secretary Wallace to comment that
the two widows of war Presidents
together represent in unique way
the cause of world peace" At the
same time, Secretary Wallace paid
tribute to Senator Connally, who
has battled to see that the Senate
dint repeat in the 4Os what it did
in the 20s."
Secretary Wallace expressed con-
fldence that Mrs Roosevelt would
use all her influence ito see that the
United States mediates justly be-
tween the British and the Russians,
instead of ganging up with the Brit
ish against the Russians, or with the
Russians against the British.
DR.. Neither Attends.
DR.. Lise Neither, whose research |
led to the development of the most
dangerous of the atomic bomb, was
among those who gathered for the
tribute to Mrs. Roosevelt.
Hailing Mrs. Roosevelt as 'the
first lady of the world" Mrs. Louis
Gutenberg, vice chairman of the
Womens Joint Congressional Com
mittee, who presided, said the efforts
Of the 100000 women represented
by the committee had been stmu-
lated by the appointment of Mrs.