Ah, My Pretty Red Wing

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt writes so many letters she can hardly be expected to keep track of them all. Last week one turned up in an embarassing place.

Mrs. Roosevelt had endorsed a statement, sponsored by the American Labor Party's Communist-dominated left wing, to support only politicos pledged to an all-out war effort. She thought she was giving her blessing to a program of the entire Labor Party. But in recent weeks the Red left wing has been using the months-old letter in an effort to show that she supported them against the merely pinko right wing. The President's wife, as...

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