OPINION: Mrs. Roosevelt Speaks Out

For the first time since Franklin Roosevelt's death, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt last week broke her silence on what she thinks of his successor's foreign policies. Items: she does not like President Truman's thinking about the atomic bomb secret, thinks that Secretary of State James F. Byrnes used inept tactics at the Council of Foreign Ministers.

To a large bipartisan audience of women (and a few men) at New Haven, Conn., Mrs. Roosevelt delivered an outspoken blast at the President's policy of keeping U.S. detailed knowledge of the atomic bomb a secret. Her conclusion: this was an implication that the U.S. could...

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