Letters, May 8, 1939

Mrs. Roosevelt and the D. A. R.

Sirs:

Does TIME not err in announcing over and over in several recent issues [TIME, March 6 et seq. ] that Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt has resigned from the D. A. R. because it did not allow Marian Anderson to appear at Constitution Hall?

I am not a D. A. R. but in the interest of fairness was Mrs. Roosevelt a member? I understood that she was not. That she was only an honorary member.

Also in the interest of fairness, is it not true that in Washington, as...

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