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Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3

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by Blanche Wiesen Cook


  Tommy and, 236–37, 423

  as White House resident, 236–37, 362, 363, 387, 423, 456, 457

  World’s Fair work of, 55, 85, 120, 143

  Highlander Folk School, 243, 245, 565

  Hill, T. Arnold, 106, 339, 340, 342–43

  Hitler, Adolf, 17, 31, 56, 61, 68, 69, 78, 91, 93, 100, 108, 113–14, 115, 116, 119, 120, 125–26, 131, 135, 140, 150, 157, 163, 172, 195, 198, 218–19, 227, 242, 252, 255, 286, 315, 317n, 322, 325, 331, 367, 370, 372, 454, 468, 470

  character of, 122

  Communists and, 30, 41, 92, 154, 327

  and creation of Master Race, 320, 321

  Czechoslovakia and, 18, 29, 30, 148n–49n

  edicts of, 150, 199, 320

  eugenics program of, 136–37

  FDR’s messages to, 39–40, 63

  France and, 276, 279–81, 327, 374

  Jews and, 46–47, 82, 99, 132, 155, 192, 199, 374, 453, 469, 491, 498, 499

  lack of opposition to, 26, 27, 30, 41, 90, 92, 359

  Mussolini and, 21, 39, 375

  Poland and, 40, 149, 155, 262

  women as viewed by, 46–47

  Hobby, Oveta Culp, 428, 440, 443–44, 518

  Hooker, Harry, 185, 318, 325, 534

  Hoover, Herbert, 26, 43, 61n, 64, 210, 225, 475

  Hoover, J. Edgar, 153, 157, 159, 337n, 419, 466, 467–68

  Hopkins, Diana, 73, 106, 143, 267, 422, 423, 428, 429

  Hopkins, Harry, 73, 268, 284–85, 295–96, 308, 343, 391, 411, 422, 423, 459, 464, 477

  ER and, 267, 277, 300, 401, 432, 467, 526

  failing health of, 143, 532

  FDR and, 267, 297, 351, 387, 390, 403, 428–29, 452, 491, 501, 532

  marriage of, 428–29, 430

  stomach cancer of, 106, 267

  Hopkins, Louise Macy, 428–30

  House of Representatives, U.S., 62–63, 86–90, 105, 138, 161, 282, 489, 564

  see also Dies Committee

  housing:

  affordable, 9, 53, 54, 59–60, 90, 93, 237, 238–39, 385–87

  discrimination in, 406, 497, 564, 566–67

  Howard University, 32–33, 34, 310, 473

  Howe, Louis, 225, 267, 362–63

  Hull, Cordell, 42, 64, 99, 99n, 101, 114, 115, 116, 120, 138, 163, 164, 272, 287, 298, 403, 490, 491, 499

  “Humanistic Democracy—The American Ideal” (E. Roosevelt), 159

  human rights, 9, 11, 13

  ER’s crusade for, 542, 545, 549–71

  Hungary, 40, 92, 99, 114, 135, 164, 500, 518

  Huntington, Alice, 119, 120, 293, 346, 359

  Ibn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia, 529, 530–32

  Ickes, Harold, 34, 35, 74, 99, 99n–100n, 100, 105, 106, 114, 122, 123, 147, 256, 279, 280, 283, 292, 295–96, 298, 359, 381, 385–86, 435, 475

  refugees supported by, 27, 379–80, 381, 501, 510, 521

  immigrants, immigration, 190, 222, 328, 329, 330, 369, 372–73, 379–80

  quotas for, 27–30, 83

  suspicion and fear of, 260–61, 417–18, 498

  India:

  famine in, 477, 492, 517

  independence movement in, 434–35, 436–37, 439, 441–42, 459, 463–65, 491–92, 517, 535–36, 558

  Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees, 152, 236, 471

  International Labor Organization (ILO), 322, 376, 560

  International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU), 11, 265, 497

  International Student Service (ISS), 286, 364–65, 394–95, 415, 428, 436

  isolationism, 18–19, 22–23, 29, 40, 45, 65, 91, 101, 136, 141, 156, 161, 164, 220, 255, 261–62, 269, 274, 279, 280, 291, 358, 376, 393, 396

  Israel, 14, 556, 558

  Italy, 40, 68, 100n, 114, 115, 189, 204, 218, 255, 269, 271–72, 331, 332, 346, 365, 404

  Jackson, Robert, 122, 205–6, 245, 283, 330

  Japan, 40, 41–42, 61, 99, 115, 241, 331–32, 363, 396, 403, 533n

  China invaded by, 269. 278, 460

  early victories of, 405, 409, 418

  Japanese-Americans, 11

  fear and suspicion about, 405, 407, 417–18, 420

  internment of, 416–21

  Jews, 47, 64, 80, 82, 96–97, 100, 126–27, 152, 157, 163–64, 192, 193, 194, 222, 312, 317, 358–59, 369, 374–75, 430, 451

  Arab enmity toward, 530–31

  Nazi slaughter of, 199, 452–53, 469, 475, 490–91, 498, 499–500, 515, 530, 538

  in Poland, 132, 150

  as refugees, see refugees, Jewish

  Justice Department, U.S., 137, 154, 204, 205, 244, 337

  Kellogg, Paul, 407, 408, 415, 535

  Kennedy, Joseph P., 100, 140–41, 219, 258, 347–48, 358, 359, 376, 390

  King, Mackenzie, 71, 75, 76, 78

  Kingdon, Frank, 171, 249, 253–54, 289, 290, 369–70, 373, 377, 378, 389, 431

  Knox, Frank, 11, 172, 280, 289, 339, 340, 341–42

  Ku Klux Klan, 158, 204, 205, 243, 473

  Lachmann, Vera, 222–24

  LaGuardia, Fiorello, 75, 87n, 333, 401, 405, 408, 475

  Lape, Esther, 41, 104, 179, 248–49, 286, 292, 293, 328n, 394, 507, 564

  American Foundation and, 5, 59, 376

  ER’s correspondence with, 8, 36–37, 277, 428, 477, 483, 493–94, 542, 549–50

  as ER’s mentor and confidant, 5, 20, 85, 129, 493

  Tommy and, 6, 7, 60, 76, 110, 225, 236, 237, 240, 271, 405, 428, 442, 462, 478, 479, 504, 528

  World Court and, 5, 128–29, 300, 493

  Lash, Joseph, 7, 211, 212, 255, 265, 268–69, 288, 293–95, 297, 318, 334, 342, 343, 390, 394, 401, 402, 407, 410, 423, 435, 460, 461, 463, 528, 542

  in Army Air Force, 422–23, 482, 516, 525

  Army Intelligence investigation of, 466–67

  ASU and, 95n, 174, 175–76, 177, 182, 183, 208

  AYC and, 8–9, 174, 206, 285, 334

  on ER, 9, 175, 197, 262, 402, 486, 495, 522

  ER and, 9, 176–77, 182–83, 196–201, 253, 266–67, 293–95, 297–98, 351, 364–68, 387–88, 391–92, 397, 398, 399–400, 408, 422, 456, 474, 495, 525

  on ER-FDR relationship, 209, 377, 385, 422, 503

  ER’s correspondence with, 286, 383, 398, 442, 474, 482, 488, 490, 492, 495, 506, 510, 511, 512, 516, 518, 522, 529, 533, 541

  Spanish Civil War and, 176, 220, 366, 466

  Trude and, see Lash, Trude Pratt, Joe and

  Lash, Trude Pratt, 7, 344, 360, 361, 389, 423, 460, 465, 482, 510, 528, 542, 552n

  ER and, 14, 294, 295, 366, 394, 396–97, 428, 436, 446, 456, 467, 468, 469, 474, 486, 503, 516, 517, 525, 541

  ER’s correspondence with, 367, 495, 511, 514, 544

  Joe and, 9, 285, 286, 288, 294, 295, 364, 367–68, 388, 391–92, 397, 466, 485–86, 490, 491, 516, 525, 564

  marriage of Eliot Pratt and, 286, 367–68, 396

  Latin America, 61, 421, 501, 554

  Lattimore, Owen, 461, 479, 486n, 536

  Leach, Agnes Brown, 168, 343, 351, 360

  League of Nations, 31, 40, 287, 300, 322, 490, 544, 555

  Leahy, William, 377, 513, 517

  LeHand, Missy, 134, 139, 163, 167, 267, 347, 394, 401, 501, 502

  death of, 513

  Leopold, King of Belgium, 64, 163, 262

  Lewis, John L., 210–11, 214–15, 337, 462

  Lincoln, Abraham, 23, 200, 203

  Lisbon, 311, 312, 369–70, 371

  Lithuania, 114, 436, 556

  Littell, Katherine, 47–48, 79

  Littell, Norman, 47, 79, 103, 104, 174

  Litvinov, Maxim, 27, 40–41, 42, 68, 113, 133, 411

  London, 112, 122, 198, 219, 314–15, 330–31, 332, 347, 375, 390, 523

  Blitz in,
see Blitz

  UN session in, 548, 551–55

  Long, Breckenridge, 426, 442, 464–65, 486n, 489, 498–500

  rescue of Jews blocked by, 200, 312–13, 369, 373, 377–78, 380–81, 389–90, 471, 489, 498–99

  loyalty oaths, 86, 89, 561

  Luce, Clare Boothe, 1, 34n, 44, 263, 277, 292

  Luce, Henry, 44, 292, 426

  Luxembourg, 252, 254, 258, 262

  lynchings, 54, 166, 243

  McAllister, Dorothy, 131, 250, 361

  MacArthur, Douglas, 423, 481, 513

  McCarthyism, 561, 564–65

  McCormick, Anne O’Hare, 135, 140, 275–76

  MacCracken, Henry, 163, 222–23

  MacDonald, James G., 373–74

  McIntire, Ross, 47, 122, 539

  MacLeish, Archibald, 395, 452

  McMichael, Jack, 173, 174, 204, 205, 207

  Malik, Charles Habbib, 557–58, 562

  Mann, Heinrich, 370, 371, 372

  Mann, Thomas, 368, 371, 372, 373, 377, 383, 468

  Marcantonio, Vito, 86, 261, 329

  Marseilles, 368, 369–71, 374, 381, 384

  Marshall, George, 274, 446, 459, 467, 491, 518, 519–20, 552n, 560

  Marshall, Thurgood, 12, 337, 473

  Martha, Crown Princess of Norway, 56, 325, 388, 401, 423, 446, 502

  Mary of Teck, Queen Consort of England, 65, 111–12, 446–47

  Matthews, J. B., 175, 181–82

  Mercer, Lucy, see Rutherfurd, Lucy Mercer

  Michelson, Charles, 292, 297, 355

  Miller, Earl, 6, 7–8, 21, 82, 85, 97, 109, 145, 200, 215, 216, 225, 239–40, 293–94, 351, 363, 366, 387, 388, 389, 456, 528, 564

  Molotov, Vyacheslav, 42, 113–14, 140, 227, 438, 439, 490

  Moral Basis of Democracy, The (E. Roosevelt), 108, 302, 303–8, 319, 353, 382

  Morgenthau, Elinor, 7, 102, 128, 179, 271, 293, 326, 343, 351, 360, 401, 420, 451, 456, 495, 503, 514, 520, 536, 552

  Morgenthau, Henry, 34n, 77, 100n, 102, 116, 128, 405, 419, 421, 443, 451–52, 460, 463, 466, 467, 475, 477, 485, 495, 499, 502, 521, 537–38

  and rescue of Jews, 488–89, 498–99, 501, 510

  Munich Agreement, 114–15

  Munich Conference (1938), 40

  Murphy, Robert, 205n, 219, 258, 448

  Murray, Pauli, 1, 431, 432, 433, 435–37, 564

  Mussolini, Benito, 21, 39–40, 63, 78, 91, 115, 116, 148n–49n, 204, 218, 255, 271–72, 285, 332, 346, 375, 476

  NAACP, 34, 86, 92–94, 156, 170, 211, 250, 292, 310, 333, 334, 336–37, 357, 395, 428, 431, 437, 463, 510, 511, 517, 521, 536

  anti-lynching law and, 31–32, 166

  in campaign against racial discrimination, 338, 341, 472, 519

  conventions of, 86, 92–93, 94, 561

  Legal Defense and Education Fund of, 12, 473, 519

  Spingarn Medal and, 36, 93

  Nation, 192, 193, 249–50, 380

  National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), 211, 343, 407

  National Youth Administration (NYA), 54, 86, 117, 142, 160, 213, 228, 239, 249, 271, 310, 325, 339, 357, 426

  Nazi-Soviet Pact, 113–15, 117, 133–34, 135, 140, 153, 172, 178, 195, 196, 201, 203, 210, 219, 247, 257, 321, 393

  Nehru, Jawaharlal, 434, 435, 437, 491–92

  Neilson, William Allan, 221–22, 395

  Netherlands, 81, 140, 163, 252–54

  Nazi invasion of, 255–56, 262

  Neutrality Acts, 22, 42, 79, 90, 98, 102, 123, 136, 137–38, 161, 269, 280, 393

  New Deal, 23, 53, 58–59, 93, 96, 105, 141–42, 154, 156, 167, 173, 175, 178, 200, 201, 204, 206, 229, 237, 269, 279, 300, 302, 305, 308, 309, 321, 342, 343, 345, 346, 356, 376, 387, 425, 559, 568

  opposition to, 17, 32, 59, 69, 71, 86, 90, 93, 94, 96, 105, 147, 156, 158, 167, 172, 412

  see also Works Progress Administration

  New Republic, 380, 424, 454

  Newspaper Guild, 10, 184, 186, 360

  New York Herald Tribune, 85, 370, 506, 515

  New York Times, 24, 38, 43, 50, 57, 67, 78, 81, 85, 114, 135, 136, 158–59, 171, 173, 175, 176, 181, 185, 228–29, 241, 264, 275–76, 284, 300, 318, 319, 353, 400, 444, 474–75, 504

  New York World’s Fair (1939), 43, 55–56, 71, 85, 104, 120, 143, 264, 265–66, 316n

  New Zealand, 465, 479, 480, 483

  Nicolson, Harold, 40, 42, 78, 114, 118, 122, 124, 136, 187, 219, 281, 326–27, 451

  Niebuhr, Reinhold, 198, 289, 465

  North Africa, 280

  Allied invasion of, 431, 438, 446, 448

  Darlan Deal and, 449, 451–52, 457

  Vichy regime in, 280, 448–49, 451–52, 458, 460, 466

  Norton, Mary, 56, 543, 545

  Norway, 56, 246, 252, 254

  Nazi invasion of, 241

  neutrality of, 227

  Nye, Gerald, 90, 101, 101n

  O’Day, Caroline, 6, 26, 29–30, 34, 35, 62–63, 85, 88, 90–91, 92, 161, 229, 321, 360, 404

  Office of Civilian Defense (OCD), 401, 402, 405, 407–8, 412–15

  Office of War Information and Psychological Warfare (OWI), 450, 454, 457, 485

  Offie, Carmel, 112, 134, 139, 163

  oil, 471, 531, 532, 548

  “On Jews” (E. Roosevelt), 127–28

  Osthagen, Henry, 6, 215, 216, 293, 351, 389

  Oswego, N.Y., refugee camp at, 510, 520–21

  Pacific Theater, ER’s tour of, 465, 479–84

  Palestine, 26, 64, 79–80, 152, 157, 311, 427, 486–88, 501, 530, 532, 547–48, 554, 556

  Palmer, Charles F., 385, 386, 387

  Paris, 112, 134, 273, 516

  Nazi occupation of, 275–76, 279

  Parliament, British, 113, 115, 219, 252, 314, 375

  Patterson, Robert, 339, 340, 483

  Patton, George S., 203, 448, 538

  Pearl Harbor, Japanese attack on, 403–4, 416, 419

  Pehle, John, 489, 498, 499, 500, 501

  Perkins, Frances, 26, 27, 123, 147, 287, 296–97, 299, 376–77

  Pétain, Henri-Philippe, 271, 276, 280–81

  Phillips, Caroline Astor Drayton, 150–51, 187, 189, 191–92, 442

  Phillips, William, 150–51, 189, 191–92, 271–72, 442, 463–64

  Pickens, Harriet Ida, 11, 95n, 211, 334, 342

  Pickens, William, 12, 211, 334

  Pickett, Clarence, 26, 62, 83, 155, 229, 321, 421

  Pinchot, Cornelia Bryce “Leila,” 31, 34, 408, 437

  Pinchot, Gifford, 31, 34, 437

  Pius XII, Pope, 69, 189–92, 199, 228

  Poland, Poles, 40, 69, 92, 115, 119, 135, 149, 153, 178, 189, 194, 199, 203, 210, 225, 229, 246–47, 498, 518, 533n, 556, 163–64, 254

  lack of Western aid to, 135–36

  massacres in, 132–33, 139–40, 151, 199, 452, 515, 530

  Nazi air raids on, 174

  Nazi invasion of, 120, 131, 139–40, 150–51, 262

  partition of, 114

  refugee crisis in, 161–63

  refugees from, 236

  “resettlement” camps in, 152

  resistance movement in, 453–54

  Soviet invasion of, 133–34, 135–36

  Polier, Justine Wise, 9–10, 27, 382, 407

  poll taxes, 93, 96, 156, 251

  Port Chicago, munitions explosion at, 511–12, 519–20

  Potsdam Conference (1945), 547

  poverty, 28, 86, 160

  Pratt, Eliot, 286, 367, 388, 397

  President’s Advisory Committee on Political Refugees (PACPR), 312, 313, 369, 373

  press, freedom of, 95–96

  public health, 59, 247–48, 251

  Quakers, 34, 169, 170, 179, 321, 489

&n
bsp; Quanza, SS, 82n, 311–13, 369

  Quebec Conference (1944), 484, 514, 516, 517, 518

  “Race, Religion and Prejudice” (E. Roosevelt), 424

  racial violence, 204, 243, 336, 473, 511

  racism, 11, 54, 96–97, 155, 156, 166, 169, 204, 310–11, 321, 329, 333–36, 338, 340, 350, 357–58, 413, 414–15, 416, 424, 431–34, 435, 436, 439–40, 446, 450–51, 472–73, 497, 518–21, 535, 545, 561, 564, 566

  Randolph, A. Philip, 333, 339, 340, 342–43, 432–33, 568

  Raset, Zena, 398, 399, 423

  Rathbone, Eleanor, 14, 476, 485

  Read, Elizabeth, 5, 6, 7, 20, 36, 60, 85, 128–29, 179, 225, 237, 271, 277, 286, 293, 328n, 493–94

  Reading, Stella, 3, 14, 141, 390, 401, 440, 443–44, 445, 475–76, 485, 522–23, 557

  Red Cross, 138, 253, 263, 264, 273, 430, 444–45, 451, 479–80, 483, 507

  Red Scare, 39, 147, 153–54, 155, 281–83, 328–30

  Refugee Facts, 83

  refugees, 61, 63–64, 92, 99, 120, 138, 151–52, 161–64, 258, 276–77, 287–91

  Churchill and, 475–76, 484, 500–501

  ER and, see Roosevelt, Eleanor, refugees and

  in France, 164, 258, 273, 276–77, 369–70, 374, 381, 384

  Jewish, 13–14, 26, 62, 69, 79–83, 189, 427, 455, 470–71, 472, 474–76, 484–85, 486, 488, 489, 498–99, 500–501, 520–21, 530, 547, 554, 555–56

  Reid, Helen Rogers, 84–85, 159, 291, 370

  religious freedom, 96, 238

  Republican Party, Republicans, 1, 17, 23, 107, 203, 291, 346, 349

  Reynaud, Paul, 258, 263, 271, 273, 276, 280

  Reynolds, Agnes, 182, 267, 294, 318

  Rogers, Edith Nourse, 26, 31, 393

  Romania, 40, 92, 114, 135, 140, 161–62, 498, 518, 533n

  rescue of Jews from, 488–89

  Roosevelt, Amy, 325, 364, 400

  Roosevelt, Anna Eleanor “Sistie,” 144, 185, 196, 236, 483

  Roosevelt, Anna Rebecca Hall (ER’s mother), 2, 21, 266

  Roosevelt, Anne Clark, 70, 103–4, 112, 116, 125, 271, 512

  Roosevelt, Archibald, 204, 213

  Roosevelt, Curtis “Buzzy,” 144, 196, 236

  Roosevelt, Daniel Stewart, 37–38, 43

  Roosevelt, Diana, 325, 364, 400

  Roosevelt, Dorothy Kemp, 33, 364, 400

  Roosevelt, Eleanor, 110, 129

  activism of, 171, 229, 355

  affinity for people, 2–3

  “air our minds” luncheons of, 66

  America christened by, 125

  anti-Asian racial discrimination deplored by, 424

 

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