Eleanor (57 page)

18.
Lilienthal,
The Road to Change, 1955–59,
cited (Ch. 12), p. 299.

19.
New York Times,
March 11, 1961.

20.
Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Adlai Stevenson, April 19, 1961; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to John F. Kennedy, April 10, 1961.

21.
“List of Women Eligible for Appointment,” Eleanor Roosevelt files, in Franklin D. Roosevelt Library; her changed attitude toward the Equal Rights Amendment reported in the
New York Times,
May 8, 1961; message from the Commission on the Status of Women to Eleanor Roosevelt, Oct. 29, 1962.

22.
Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to John F. Kennedy, Feb. 19, 1961.

23.
Letters from Eleanor Roosevelt to John F. Kennedy, March 14, 1961, and April 21, 1961, and Kennedy’s reply, April 28, 1961.

24.
Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to John F. Kennedy, July 22, 1961, and Kennedy’s reply, July 28, 1961.

25.
Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to John F. Kennedy, Nov. 2, 1961, and Kennedy’s reply, Nov. 21, 1961.

26.
Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to John F. Kennedy, Aug. 15, 1962.

27.
Letter from Robert F. Kennedy to Eleanor Roosevelt, Dec. 19, 1961.

28.
Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Jacqueline Kennedy, Dec. 1, 1960.

29.
E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” May 29, 1962.

30.
New York Post,
April 7, 1959.

31.
Interview with Anna Roosevelt Halsted.

32.
Lash Diaries, March 16, 1960.

33.
Ruth G. Michaels, in
Hadassah,
Dec., 1962; interviews with Maureen Corr and A. David Gurewitsch.

34.
New York Times,
May 25, 1962; Lash Diaries, June 8, 1962; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Thomas L. Stix, May 10, 1962.

35.
Interview with Anna Roosevelt Halsted; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to A. David Gurewitsch, undated; Elinore Denniston, “A Recollection,” in Eleanor Roosevelt,
Tomorrow Is Now
(New York, 1963), p. x.

36.
E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” Aug. 14, 1962.

37.
Lash Diaries, Aug. 6, 1962.

38.
Interview with Maureen Corr.

39.
Letter from Trude W. Lash to Paul Tillich, Nov. 18, 1962.

40.
Lash Diaries, Sept. 7, 1962.

41.
Ibid.
; E. Roosevelt,
Tomorrow Is Now, op. cit.,
p. 138.

42.
Lash Diaries, Sept. 20, 1962.

43.
Letter from Trude W. Lash to Paul Tillich, Nov. 18, 1962.

44.
Letter from Adlai Stevenson to Eleanor Roosevelt, Sept. 30, 1962.

45.
Letter from A. David Gurewitsch to Joseph P. Lash, Dec. 15, 1962; letter from James Halsted to James Roosevelt, March 25, 1966.

46.
Lash Diaries, Oct. 30, 1962; letter from Anna Roosevelt Halsted to David Gray, Nov. 1, 1962.

47.
Edward P. Morgan, ed.,
This I Believe
(New York, 1953), pp. 155–56.

APPENDIX A. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT AND THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

1.
Letter from Adlai Stevenson to Gunnar Jahn (Chairman of the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament), Feb. 21, 1961.

2.
Letter from Adlai Stevenson to Gunnar Jahn, Jan. 15, 1962; letter from John F. Kennedy to August Schou, Jan. 23, 1962.

3.
Letter from Ralph Bunche to Gunnar Jahn, Nov. 22, 1962.

4.
Letter from Lester Pearson to Gunnar Jahn, Aug. 13, 1964; letter from Andrew W. Cordier to Gunnar Jahn, Sept. 2, 1964.

5.
Letter from Sivert A. Nielsen to August Schou, Sept. 5, 1964, and Schou’s reply, Sept. 8, 1964; letter from Sivert A. Nielsen to Nils Langhelle, Sept. 21, 1964, and Langhelle’s reply, Oct. 28, 1964.

6.
Letter from the Organizing Committee to Gunnar Jahn, Jan. 10, 1965.

7.
Letter from Harry S. Truman to Gunnar Jahn, Nov. 20, 1964.

8.
Letter from Clement Attlee to the Nobel Committee, Oct. 29, 1964.

9.
Letter from Jean Monnet to August Schou, undated.

10.
Letter from Henry A. Kissinger to the Nobel Committee, Dec. 9, 1964.

11.
Letter from Esther Lape to A. David Gurewitsch, Dec. 30, 1964.

APPENDIX B. MRS. ROOSEVELT AND THE SULTAN OF MOROCCO

1.
Letter from Justine Wise Polier to Joseph P. Lash, Feb. 29, 1972.

Index

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Acheson, Dean, 155, 157, 181, 190, 192, 194, 195, 200–2

food aid to Yugoslavia question, 85–86

on Truman Doctrine, 83–85

Adenauer, Konrad, 285

Albert Hall, 32

Alexander, Archibald, 266

Alexander, Sir Harold, 32

Aligarh University, 197

Ali Khan, (Begum) Liaquat, 228

Allison, John M., 228

Alsop, Joseph, 73, 79, 298

Alsop, Stewart, 73, 79

America
, 155

American Association for the United Nations (AAUN), 120, 164, 233, 236, 257, 268, 322, 336

barnstorming the nation for, 220

commercializes on her seventieth birthday, 239

Eleanor becomes educational volunteer in, 220

American Broadcasting Company (ABC), 178

American Committee for Yugoslav Relief, 86

American Friends Service Committee, 326

American Legion, Americanism Commission of, 237

Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), 81, 164, 234, 235, 289

Eleanor agrees to serve as honorary chairman, 236–37

founding meeting, Eleanor’s support of, 79–81

and 1956 Democratic civil rights plank, 254

Roosevelt Day Dinner, 290

American Youth Congress, 151

Anderson, Clinton P., 135–36

Anderson, Eugenie, 261

Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, 104, 105, 107

Aquinas, Thomas, 46

Arabs,
see
Palestine question

Arriba
, 155

Arvey, Jake, 139

As He Saw
It, 78

Asia, 148, 192–93

Astor, Lady, 25

Attlee, Clement, 103–4, 105, 108, 343, 343
n

Atwood, William, 271

Auerbach, Beatrice Fox, 331

Austin, Warren R., 51, 78, 115, 127, 192, 194

Australia, 30, 102

Baker, Noel, 25, 32

Baldwin, Calvin B., 82

Baldwin, Roger, 237, 318, 331

Balfour Declaration, 121

Barden Bill, 162

Barkley, Alben, 20

Baruch, Bernard, 95, 128, 140, 146–47, 243–44, 306, 318

and Eleanor’s resignation from UN, 214, 216

international atomic energy control plan, controversy over, 77

and Stevenson candidacy (1952), 209–11

and Stevenson candidacy (1956), 266

Baumgartner, Leona, 324

Bay of Pigs, 324

Beal, Frank, 166

Beard, James, 183

Beaser, Herbert, 209

Belafonte, Harry, 319

Benét, Stephen Vincent, 184

Ben-Gurion, David, 329, 343
n

Benjamin, Robert, 297, 305, 336

Benton, William, 246, 262, 283, 297, 301, 319

Berlin, 63, 188

Berlin Wall, 326

Bernadotte, Count Folke, 127–28

Bernstein, Leonard, 319

Bethune, Mary McLeod, 235

Bevin, Ernest, 25, 33, 88, 107, 108, 110

Bidault, Georges, 33

Bilbo, Theodore G., 20, 104

Billboard
, 182

Bingham, Barry, 243

Blanshard, Paul, 152

Bloom, Sol, 23, 30, 34, 173

Boettiger, John, 178

Boettiger, John Roosevelt (grandson), 322

Bogomolov, Alexander E., 54

compliments Eleanor at Geneva, 57

Bohlen, Charles E. (Chip), 90, 91–92, 95, 122–23, 141, 142

Bokhari, Mr., 193

Bolling, Richard, 249, 292

Borisov, Alexander, 42–43

Bourne, Dorothy, 199, 315

Bowers, Claude G., 203

Bowles, Chester, 17
n
, 143, 196, 197, 200, 202, 204, 282–83, 305, 306, 319

Bowles, Dorothy Stebbins, 200

Bowman, Isaiah, 101–2

Brandeis University, 164, 310

Bricker, John W., 219

Bricker amendment, 206, 219, 220, 221

Bromfield, Louis, 98

Browder, Earl, 14

Brown, Harrison, 19

Brown, Richard, 315

Bryan, Julien, 237

Buckley, William F., 279, 322

Bugbee, Emma, 237

Bunche, Ralph J., 24, 129, 130, 237, 239, 251, 341

Burma, 201

Burns, James M., 249

Butler, Paul, 248, 254, 255, 265, 270, 283, 293–98

Bye, George, 43, 150, 185, 311

Byelorussians, 31

Byrne, Doris, 14

Byrnes, James, 14, 19, 23, 24, 27, 29, 33, 34, 35, 36, 41, 90, 92, 114
n

Caffery, Jefferson, 195

“Calf Path, The,” 183

Campaigns,
see
Democrats/Democratic party

Campobello, 184, 333

and Franklin D. Roosevelt memorial plans, 327

Canada, 30, 327

Canfield, Cass, 185, 200, 311

Carey, James, 235, 335

Carlin, George, 16

Carman, Harry J., 222–23, 225, 227

Cassin, René, 42, 50–51, 63, 65, 67
n
, 343
n
, 344

Cecil, Robert Viscount, 32

Celler, Emanuel, 335

Chandor, Douglas, 171

Chang, Peng-Chun, 46, 48–49

Chiang Kai-shek, Mme., 201, 309

Chicago Tribune
, 92

Chichibu, Princess (Setsuko Matsudaira), 227

Chile, 203

China, 22

see also
Formosa; Red China

Christie, Lansdell, 319, 331

Churchill, Winston, 5, 26, 31, 78, 85, 181

Eleanor on at war’s end, 11–12

“Iron Curtain” speech, she fears influence on Truman, 71

Jewish refugee question and, 103

visits Hyde Park, 71

CIO-PAC, 15

Citizens Committee for Children, 17, 165, 314

Civil rights, American, 207, 290, 327–28

and drafting of Human Rights Declaration and Covenant, 50–51, 53–55, 58–59

and 1956 presidential campaign, 247–55, 258, 262, 269

Clark, Joseph, 283

Clay, Lucius, 93

Clemens, Cyril, 160, 205

Clifford, Clark, 144, 145

Cochrane, Louise Morley, 26, 330

Cohen, Benjamin V., 38, 96, 121, 123
n
, 128, 152, 326

Cohen, Felix S., 102

Cohen, Morris Raphael, 102

Cold war, Eleanor and, 16, 63, 201, 203, 335

ADA
v
. PCA question, 80–82

advice to Kennedy on Berlin Wall and nuclear test banning, 326–27

alienated by Soviet Union, 96–97

atomic energy control question, Baruch Plan and, 77

Berlin blockade, her presence in Paris reassuring, 188

breakup of Allied unity, her view of Soviet role in, 73, 76–78

Communism not military threat, 149

confrontation with Communists (1948), 63–65

criticizes Wallace for anti-American speeches in Europe, 82–83

Czech Communist coup, her fear of Third World War, 94

European reconstruction question, Marshall Plan, 86–96
passim

fear of growing U.S. military influence, 75–76

first Soviet sputnik, 276

her hopes for communication with Soviets, 276, 278

her views on Soviet Union, 69–71

Khrushchev “honest” when saying war unthinkable, 276

McCarthyism, views on and encounters with, 233–37, 242, 285

military preparedness not enough to meet Soviet challenges, 283

misgivings about U.S. “get tough” policy, 74–75

planned visits to Russia, 74, 93

senses growing rift between Russia and Red China, China should be recognized, 284

Stevenson man to deal with Soviets (1952 campaign), 213

supports non-Communist progressive programs, 79–82

suspicious of Churchill’s policies, 71–72

Third World pro-Soviet leanings, 192–93

trip to Northern Europe, fear of U.S. and Russia in, 188–91

trip to Russia and, thoughts on Communism and Third World, 273–74

Truman Doctrine question, 82–86

UN support necessary to ease, 71–72

visit to Yugoslavia, their view of Communism, 231–33

Yugoslav relief question, 85–86

see also
Communists/Communism; Soviet Union

Columbia Bicentennial Conference, 243

Commager, Henry S., 294, 295

Commission on the Status of Women, 324

Commission to Study the Organization of Peace, 18

Committee for Democratic Voters, 331

Communist “Peace” Congresses, 189

Communists/Communism, 14–15, 76–77, 148–49

see also
Cold war; Soviet Union

Confucius, 46

Connally, Tom, 23, 24, 25, 34

Consumers League, 321

Cook, Nancy, 169–70, 320

Cordier, Andrew W., 342

Corr, Maureen, 171–72, 195, 223, 229, 231, 233, 273, 287, 310–11, 318–19, 320, 330, 331, 333, 337, 338

Cousins, Norman, 326

Craig, May, 104, 142, 155

Cuba, 306, 325, 338

Curnan, Charles (Tubby), 315, 335, 336

Cyprus, 108–9, 112

Czechoslovakia, 92–93, 117

Dagens Nyheter
, 189

Daniels, Jonathan, 54, 186

Daniels, Josephus, 6, 156, 164

Dardanelles, 70

Davar
, 110

Davis, Nancy, 246

“Declaration of Conscience and Responsibility,” 326

Dedijer, Vladimir, 231

De Gaulle, Charles, 328

Delano, Laura, 4, 317

Delano, Warren, 230

Democratic Advisory Committee, 289

Democratic National Committee, 211

Eleanor refuses post on, 270

see also
Democrats/Democratic party

Democrats/Democratic party, Eleanor and: