EDUCATIO N: Mrs. Roosevelt Ticks Them Off

EDUCATION

Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt last week finally came right out and told youthful U.S. radicals that they could go too far—in fact, that some of them had. To a Manhattan conference of the U.S. Student Assembly (one of the few remaining signs of an intercollegiate youth movement—most youth is now organized in U.S. uniforms), the First Lady declared:

"There has been a custom of using people to carry out the aims of the young Communist groups who did not honestly declare themselves as belonging to Communist groups, and that we cannot tolerate in a...

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