Eleanor (59 page)
Authors: Joseph P. Lash
Eleanor’s work for, her advice, 324–27
his inauguration, 307–8
nominates Eleanor for Nobel Peace Prize, 67n, 341
vice-presidential aspirations (1956), 261
Kennedy, John F., presidential campaign (1960):
calls Eleanor at airport, 302
the convention, wins nomination, 301
Eleanor discusses him at press conference, 299–300
Eleanor mistrusts, 286–88
her fear of his winning the nomination, 293
his support grows, she suggests Stevenson-Kennedy ticket, 293–98
Johnson people try to stop, 298
meets with Stevenson, 303
primaries, 291
she softens toward, 290
visits with Eleanor, she joins his campaign, 304–6
Kennedy, Joseph P., 285–86, 292
Kennedy, Robert, 327
Keswick, M., 230
Khan, Sir Mohammed Zafrullah, 65
Khrushchev, Nikita, 272, 275–78, 283, 320, 326, 328
Kidd, Gordon, 336
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 328, 342
Kintner, Robert E., 181
Kipling, Rudyard, 314
Kissinger, Henry A., 344
Koo, V. K. Wellington, 33
Koons, Mr., 165
Korean War, 191–92, 211
Kotschnig, Walter M., 55, 58
Koussevitzky, Sergei, 183
Kresse, Al, 330
Krock, Arthur, 296
Kubie, Lawrence S., 178–79
Kurusu, Saburo, 225
Kuznetzov, V. V., 28
Ladies’ Home Journal,
10, 151, 164, 184
Ladies of Courage
, 269
La Guardia, Fiorello H., 80, 132, 134
Lake Success, 30, 45
Landis, James M., 261, 285
Langhelle, Nils, 342
Lape, Esther, 4, 16–17, 173, 233, 266, 316, 334, 342, 344
Lash, Joseph, 236, 334, 338
Lash, Trude, 179, 236, 319, 333, 337
Lasker, Mary, 257, 259, 282, 284, 288, 293, 295, 297, 305
Latin America, 193
Laugier, Henri, 41, 52
Lavrova, Anna, 272, 274–75
League of Nations, 25, 32, 40
Leahy, William D., 85, 117
Lebanon, 130, 193, 195–96
Lehman, Herbert H., 120, 132, 152, 156–57, 161–62, 174, 202, 250, 279, 281, 297, 302, 303, 315
Lehman, Mrs. Herbert H., 162, 303
Leigh, W. Colston, 164, 237, 257, 312
Lencer, Martin, 165
Lenin, Vladimir, 97, 274
Lerner, Max, 81
Levy, Adele (Mrs. David M.), 17, 105
Levy, William Turner, 318
Lie, Trygve, 28, 35, 41
Life
, 87
n
Lilienthal, David E., 262, 302, 319, 323
Livingston, Mrs. John Henry, 318
Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr., 220, 285
Loeb, James, Jr., 79–80
Look
, 271
Lord, Mrs. Oswald, 221
Lorenz, Pare, 165
Louchheim, Katie S., 265
Lovett, Robert A., 53–54, 55, 58–59, 114, 121, 123, 125, 148, 202
Lowdermilk, Walter C., 101–2
Lowenstein, Allard, 166, 243, 247, 318
Luce, Clare Boothe, 143, 309
Lucy Stone League, 324
Ludlow, Elizabeth Livingston, 287
Lynch, Walter A., 174
Lyons, Eugene, 236
MacArthur, Douglas, 136, 192, 207
Macatee, Robert, 230
McCall’s,
164, 185–86, 311
McCarranism, 51
McCarthy, Eugene, 297, 301, 344
n
McCarthy, Joseph, 51, 211, 212, 216, 223, 233–37, 242, 261, 285, 293
McCarthyism,
see
McCarthy, Joseph
McGrath, J. Howard, 136
McInerny, Gen. T., 162
n
McKinney, Frank E., 207, 211
MacLeish, Archibald, 156, 184
McNeill, Hector, 128–29
Magidoff, Nila, 319
Mailer, Norman, 301
Malik, Charles H., 46–47, 48–49, 64, 65, 195, 344
Mansfield, Mike, 344
n
Margaret, Princess, 31
Marshall, George C., 59, 61, 63, 105, 136, 167, 188, 212, 216
attitude toward Eleanor, 90–92
Bernadotte Plan and, 128
corresponds with her on Third World War possibilities, 94–95
“draft Eisenhower” movement and (1948), 140, 141
European reconstruction question, Marshall Plan, 86–96
passim
, 118–19
Jewish refugee question and, 111
partition of Palestine question and, 113–14, 118–19, 122
recognition of Palestine state and, 124–25, 127
Marshall, Mrs. George C., 63, 96
Marshall Plan, 86–96
passim
, 119
Martin, Mrs. Hershey (Tiny), 302, 316
Marvin, George, 238
Masaryk, Jan, 93
Matsumoto, Shigehabu, 344
n
Mature Mind, The
, 227
Maxwell, Elsa, 182
Mead, James M., 10, 131–32
“Meet the Press,” 183, 264–65, 280
Mehta, Mrs. Hansa, 55
Meir, Golda, 127
Meitner, Lise, 19
Memoirs
(Truman), 124
Mercer, Lucy,
see
Rutherfurd, Lucy Mercer
Meyer, Agnes E., 158–60, 209, 265, 298, 305
Miller, Earl, 165, 170–71, 316–17
Miller, Helen Hill, 262
Mindszenty, Joseph Cardinal, 150, 153
Minor, Harold B., 195
“Missouri Gang,” 134
Mohammed V, Sultan, 345–47
Molotov, V. M., 77, 88
Monnet, Jean, 343
Monroney, A. S. Mike, 297, 298
Mora, José A., 48
Morgan, Gerald, 29
Morgan, Mrs. Gerald, 317
Morgenthau, Elinor, 238, 311, 319
Morgenthau, Henry, III, 183, 311, 319, 330, 334
Morgenthau, Henry, Jr., 9, 44, 105, 127, 173, 309, 319
Morgenthau, Robert, 305, 319, 334
Morito, Tatsuo, 225
Morley, Louise, 31
Morocco, 345–47
Morse, Wayne, 282
Moscow, Warren, 158
n
Moscow Communiqué of the Foreign Ministers, 27
Murphy, Robert, 73, 190–91, 213
Murray, Pauli, 251
Murray, Sir Arthur, 26
Murray, Thomas E., 279
Murrow, Edward R., 31, 259, 340
Murrow, Janet, 31
Muskie, Edmund, 282
“My Day,” 1, 10
Nabokov, Vladimir, 276
Nagako, Empress, 228
Nagasaki, 18, 326
n
Nash, Walter, 1
Nation
, the, 152, 157
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 17, 164, 247, 248–53
petitions UN for redress of grievances against American society, 52–53, 54
see also
Civil rights
National Broadcasting Company (NBC), 181
National Citizens Political Action Committee, 15
Nation
Associates,
The
, 115
Negeb, 127, 128
Nehru, Jawaharlal, 193, 197–200
Newbold, Mary, 317
New Jersey Board of Control of Social Institutions, 318
New York Citizens Committee for Kennedy, 305
New York City Planning Commission, 315
New York Committee for Democratic Voters, 280
New York Herald Tribune
, 186
New York Journal-American
, 236
New York Post,
271, 289, 297
New York Times,
138, 186, 217
New York World-Telegram,
150, 271
New Zealand, 30
Niebuhr, Reinhold, 79, 344
n
Nielsen, Sivert A., 342
Niles, David, 115
Nixon, Richard M., 175, 211, 244, 253, 264–65, 285, 290, 292, 293, 295, 306
Nizam of Hyderabad, 199
Nobel Peace Prize, 67
n
, 341–44
Noel-Baker, Philip J., 344
n
Nomura, Kichisaburo, 225
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 213, 327
Norton, Mary, 9
Norway, 35, 94, 188
Nottingham Roosevelt scholars, 261
O’Dwyer, William, 132, 136, 157
Oil for the Lamps of China
, 165
On My Own
, 229
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 344
n
Osthagen, Henry, 3
Overstreet, H. A., 227
Pacem in Terris
, 67
Pakistan, 195, 196–97, 202, 228
Palestine question, Eleanor and:
Committee of Inquiry report, British backtrack, 107
feels U.S. should relax immigration laws, 107
her attitude toward Arabs criticized, 130
Ibn Saud, Franklin and, 103–4
issuance of visas, State Department and, 98–99
Jewish terrorist activities, British retaliate, 108–9
100,000 visas
v
. Committee of Inquiry, 103–4, 106
opposes partition, 109–10
pros and cons of Palestine as homeland site, 99–102
sympathy for Jewish refugees, 98
visit to Germany, effect on her views, 106–7
Palestine question, United Nations and:
Bernadotte Plan, 128–29
British decision to turn problem over to, 110
British undermine UN authority,
she attacks self-righteous governments, 110–11
complains to Marshall over U.S. position, 111
cruelty of British policy, 112–13
General Assembly and, 115
her offer to resign, 121–23
Israel voted member, 129–30
oil question, 111, 112, 114, 117, 118
partition approved, her support, 116
Special Committee set up, her impatience, 111
Truman’s recognition of Israel, her objections to secrecy involved, 125–27
UNSCOP’s majority recommendations, she urges U.S. support, 113–14
U.S. reversal, embargo on arms, opposition to peace-keeping force, 117–20
U.S. trusteeship proposal, 121–25
Palmer, Charles F., 171
Pandit, Mme., 197, 198–99, 230
Paris Economic Conference, 88
Parish, Susan (Cousin Susie), 238, 331
Parsons, Mrs. Barclay, 166
Pasternak, Boris, 276
Pasvolsky, Leo, 24, 28
Pate, Maurice, 315
Pauley, Edwin W., 114, 135, 175
Pauling, Linus, 341
Pavlov, A. P., 60–62, 64
Pavlov, Ivan P., 274
Peabody, Endicott, 323
Peace Corps, Advisory Council of, 324
Pearl Harbor inquiry, 22
Pearson, Drew, 79, 146
Pearson, Lester B., 35, 341
Pegler, Mrs. Westbrook, 150–51
Pegler, Westbrook, 25, 136, 150–51, 168, 186, 230, 235, 236
Pehle, John W., 99
Pendergast, Thomas J., 13
Perkins, Frances, 13, 44, 146–47, 309
Perón, Juan, 203
Peter and the Wolf
, 183
Peters, Louise, 168
Pethick-Lawrence, Lady, 26, 33–34
Phillips, William, 156
Pilgrim Society, 31
Pius XII, Pope, 158n, 160
Polier, Justine, 100, 319, 345
Polk, Lily, 208
Pollitzer, Alice (Nanny), 237
Poll tax bills, 13
Popular Front, 81
Powell, Adam Clayton, 249, 251, 252
Pratt, Annie, 337
Pratt, Christopher, 337
Preparatory Commission, 33
Profiles in Courage
, 285
Progressive Citizens of America, 79, 80, 82
Progressive party, 145
Prokofieff, Serge, 183
Purcell, Charles, 318
Queen Elizabeth
, 22, 23
Raleigh News and Observer,
156, 164
Ranis, Gus, 299
Rankins, John E., 104
Rankovic, Aleksandar, 233
Rau, Sir Benegal, 187
Rauh, Joseph L., Jr., 254, 294, 295
Raymond, Jack, 233
Reading, Lady Eva, 26
Reading, Lady Stella, 25, 108–9, 233, 336
Red China, 201, 271, 284
see also
Cold War
Red Decade, The
, 236
Reddy, John, 175
Reid, Mrs. Ogden, 342
“Report on the Acquiescence of This Government in the Murder of the Jews,” 99
Reston, James, 25, 27, 118
Reuther, May, 335
Reuther, Walter, 139, 235, 249, 283, 291, 301, 335–36, 344
n
Rhodes, June, 317
Robeson, Paul, 182
Robinson, Edwin Arlington, 184
Robinson, Helen (Mrs. Theodore Douglas), 317
Rockefeller, Nelson A., 292, 293, 331, 334, 344
n
Roosevelt, Amy, 173
Roosevelt, Anna,
see
Halsted, Anna
Roosevelt, Anne, 334
Roosevelt, Belle (Mrs. Kermit), 2, 3, 178, 317–18
Roosevelt, Chandler, 188
Roosevelt, Curtis (Buzzy), 321, 336, 338
Roosevelt, Diana, 173
Roosevelt, Dorothy K., 173
Roosevelt, Eleanor:
AAUN’s party for her, 239
anti-Catholic bias, 287
attitude toward holding public office, 132
backs international control of atomic weapons, 18–19
concern for world peace, 18
denies having political power, 278
enjoys a good scrap, 151
European trip (1956), 263
first formal press conference since leaving White House, 22
George C. Marshall and, 90–92, 96
on her 1956 civil rights stand, 262
her seventieth birthday, 237–38
jobs unrelated to UN assignment, 30–32
on Little Rock crisis, 262
in London for UN Assembly visitors and welcome letters, 26–27
long-hoped-for trip to Soviet Union, 15–16
looking for job to do, 15–18
newspaper column suffers due to Stevenson campaign, 270–71
partial deafness, 48
n
slides on floor of Palais des Nations, 57
State Department refuses to allow Red China trip, 271
Tommy’s death, 238
trip to Kansas reminder of advancing age, 283–84
visit to Israel and Arab countries (1952), 130
Westbrook Pegler’s attacks on, 150–51
see also
Cold War; Democrats/Democratic party; Palestine question; United Nations
Roosevelt, Eleanor, ambassador:
extraordinary: reports on her journey, 202–3
trip to Chile, 203
trip to Near East, India, and Pakistan, 193, 195–203
visit to Scandinavian and Benelux countries, 188–91
