Report to Mothers

For once, energetic Eleanor Roosevelt, in San Francisco last week after her 23,000-mile voyage to Australia, New Zealand and other Pacific battle stations, looked tired. Reporters found her thin. They missed her usual warmhearted gusto. Lines of weariness were traced on her face, netting her friendly blue eyes in a delicate web of fatigue. They were eyes that had seen much—perhaps too much for one who, along with her several other distinctions, is a mother with four sons in uniform.

No other U.S. mother had seen so much of the panorama of the...

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