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| | The Soviet Union, as everybody who has the courage to face the fact knows, is run by a [[dictatorship]] as absolute as any other dictatorship in the world. It has allied itself with another dictatorship, and it has invaded a neighbor so infinitesimally small that it could | | The Soviet Union, as everybody who has the courage to face the fact knows, is run by a [[dictatorship]] as absolute as any other dictatorship in the world. It has allied itself with another dictatorship, and it has invaded a neighbor so infinitesimally small that it could |
| − | do no conceivable possible harm to the Soviet Union, a neighbor which seeks only to live at peace as a democracy, and a liberal, forwardlooking democracy at that.... | + | do no conceivable possible harm to the Soviet Union, a neighbor which seeks only to live at peace as a democracy, and a liberal, forwardlooking democracy at that. |
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| − | As Americans you have a legal and contitutional right to call yourselves Communists...and openly to advocate certain ideals of theoretical Communism; but as Americans you have not only a right but a sacred duty to confine your advocacy of changes in law to the methods prescribed by the Constitution of the United States - and you have no American right, by act or deed o any kind, to [[subversion (political)|subvert]] the Government and the Constitution of this Nation. <ref>''Roosevelt and Hopkins : An Intimate History'', Robert E. Sherwood, New York Harper and Brothers, 1948, [http://americandeception.com/index.php?action=downloadpdf&photo=/PDFsml_AD/Roosevelt_and_Hopkins-An_Intimate_History-Robert_E_Sherwood-1948-1034pgs-GOV-POL.sml.pdf&id=252&PHPSESSID=03d3557b41f249f71349e6d730cc8498 pgs. 156 - 157] pdf.</ref>}} | + | ...As Americans you have a legal and contitutional right to call yourselves Communists...and openly to advocate certain ideals of theoretical Communism; but as Americans you have not only a right but a sacred duty to confine your advocacy of changes in law to the methods prescribed by the Constitution of the United States - and you have no American right, by act or deed o any kind, to [[subversion (political)|subvert]] the Government and the Constitution of this Nation. <ref>''Roosevelt and Hopkins : An Intimate History'', Robert E. Sherwood, New York Harper and Brothers, 1948, [http://americandeception.com/index.php?action=downloadpdf&photo=/PDFsml_AD/Roosevelt_and_Hopkins-An_Intimate_History-Robert_E_Sherwood-1948-1034pgs-GOV-POL.sml.pdf&id=252&PHPSESSID=03d3557b41f249f71349e6d730cc8498 pgs. 156 - 157] pdf.</ref>}} |
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| | It was one of the few occasions in his life when Roosevelt was booed and hissed to his face by an audience of Americans. Soon afterwards, many of the same youth picketed the White House as representatives of the [[American Peace Mobilization]]. Among them was [[Joseph Cadden]], one of the overnight guests. | | It was one of the few occasions in his life when Roosevelt was booed and hissed to his face by an audience of Americans. Soon afterwards, many of the same youth picketed the White House as representatives of the [[American Peace Mobilization]]. Among them was [[Joseph Cadden]], one of the overnight guests. |
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| − | In 1940, despite Eleanor Roosevelt's publication of reasons called ''Why I still believe in the Youth Congress,'' the American Youth Congress was disbanded. Mrs. Roosevelt sponsored a new organization called the [[International Students Service]]. Joe Lash returned under her sponsorship as the secretary of that organization at $4200 a year. | + | In 1940, despite Eleanor Roosevelt's publication of reasons called ''Why I still believe in the Youth Congress,'' the American Youth Congress was disbanded. Mrs. Roosevelt sponsored a new organization called the [[International Students Service]]. Joe Lash returned under her sponsorship as the secretary of that organization at $4200 a year. |
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| | ==See also== | | ==See also== |