U.S. At War: Elliott Speaks Up

From time to time for several months the House of Representatives has been lectured by Kansas Representative William P. Lambertson on a theme that engrosses him: that President Roosevelt's four sons (James, Elliott, Franklin Jr., John) are getting preferential treatment in the armed services, have been coddled and "jerked" from combat zones. Republican leaders tried in vain to silence the Kansas sniper. Last week Democrats made a crushing answer.

Up rose Texas Representative Fritz Lanham to read a letter he had received from his constituent with the Army Air Forces in North Africa, Lieut. Colonel Elliott Roosevelt....

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