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¶ At Miami Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, accompanied by Braintruster Rexford Guy Tugwell and a bevy of female newshawks, boarded Pan-American Airways' 44-passenger American Clipper and flew away to the Caribbean Islands. At San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic, alighting in a fresh white suit, she was carried off by President Trujillo in his automobile bearing a large brass plaque "Primera Dama de la Republica!" to a palm-thatched pavilion where the President and Foreign Minister Arturo Lograno entertained her elegantly. At San Juan, Puerto Rico, she hugged Mrs. James Bourne, wife of the Relief Administrator. At St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, she spent a day, went for an early morning swim with Governor Pearson, visited Negro huts, made a speech. At St. Croix she accepted a 40-year-old bottle of rum in honor of the fact that the Federal Government is soon to finance a $1,000,000 rum distillery and sugar plantation on the islands. Then back in Puerto Rico, she settled down to the real business of her trip, lunched in a tobacco factory, scrutinized children for undernourishment, visited the slums, grinned at housewives who benevolently waved at her with chunks of relief-administered salt pork, and murmured ecstatically, "Que Simpatica! Que Carinosa!" (How understanding! How lovely!)