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Roosevelt
By: Kyle N. Wilson
United Press Staff Correspondent
Those famous Roosevelt family conversations about everything on earth must be pretty hotly contested these days when the clan gathers for informal political conference.
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and Franklin D. Jr. are sparkplugs of the new left-wing, anti-Communist organization known as Americans for Democratic Action.
Elliott Roosevelt is advertised in the Communist press as a speaker under the auspices of the opposing left wing organization, the Progressive Citizens of America. PCA does not bar Communists, but welcomes them, and is under suspicion of being attached to the party line.
James Roosevelt is reported ill on the West Coast. But his immediate political background includes a money making association with an organization which supported the Communist party line and a more recent job as Democratic State Chairman in California.
BARRED COMMUNISTS
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. is vice chairman of Americans for Democratic Action. In a week-end meeting here, ADA voted to bar Communists from membership and to support President Truman's proposal to aid Greece and Turkey.
Billed in the Communist press to speak last night in a PCA mass meeting in New York to protest Mr. Truman's Greek-Turkish program here, former Commerce Secretary (Henry) A. Wallace, Sculptor Jo David (illegible) and Commentator Frank Kingston ? and Elliott Roosevelt. The meeting was milled as a "crisis rally."
Messrs Kingston and Davidson are co-chairmen of PCA. The organization itself was created by merger of the National Citizens Political Action Committee and the Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions. Mr. Kingston had been chairman of the former, Mr. Davidson of the latter.
Of the NCPAC, which Mr. Kingston headed, the House Un-American Activities Committee had this to say in 1944:
"It has been cleverly established by overwhelming evidence that the National Citizens Political Action Committee is the major Communist front organization of the moment."
The Washington Post February 12, 1942
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