Eleanor (61 page)
Authors: Joseph P. Lash
Tucker, Miss, 182
Tully, Grace, 5
Turkey, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86–87, 88
Udall, Stewart L., 344
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UNICEF, 344
Union for Democratic Action, 17
Union Now
, 18
United Features Syndicate, 270
United Jewish Appeal, 164
United Nations, Eleanor and, 9, 43, 87, 132, 140, 141, 145, 157–58, 164, 175
appointed U.S. delegation member (1961), hopes Declaration will be accepted as law, 323
celebration at Amiens in honor of, 188
dealing with Soviets in makes for realism, 77
drafting of Declaration of Rights assigned to Human Rights Commission, 40
enunciation of Truman Doctrine and, 82–85
General Assembly (1952), her broadcasts during, 194
Geneva (1952), three U.S. introduced resolutions comic, 222
headquarters site, question of, 19, 29–30
her resignation from after Eisenhower victory, 214–18
Hiroshima and Nagasaki underscore indispensability of, 18–19, 22
Khrushchev at, his behavior “outrageous,” 277
Marshall Plan and, 88–96
passim
as member of delegation urging Vietnam question be taken before, 325–26
“nuclear” human rights commission annoyed with Alexander Borisov, 43
purpose of, Eleanor appointed to, 41
resolution to break relations with Franco’s Spain, her stand on, 150, 152, 162–63
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she’s elected chairman, agenda completed, 41–42
she speaks of on her seventieth birthday, 239
she urges immediate ratification of Charter, 18
speech on women’s rights, 216–17
U.S. ends support of Covenants, her reaction, 220–21
vigorous support of necessary, at loggerheads with Churchill, 71–72
wants Franklin’s name associated with, 19
see also
American Association for the United Nations; Cold War; Palestine question
United Nations, Eleanor and, Commission on Human Rights, drafting of Declaration and Covenant:
Covenant question, political and racial factors involved, 50–54, 58–59
Declaration approved, phrasing not satisfactory to her, 57
final approval of Declaration, Eleanor praised, 62
first Declaration article problematical, 55
her optimism at final Geneva press conference, 57–58
member of drafting committee, her suggestions, 49–51
1948 drafting committee sessions, debates with Pavlov, 60–62
ordering priorities, U.S. draft Covenant submitted, 55
philosophical debates, 46–47
policy formulation, her influence, 47–48
progress slow on the Covenants, 60–61
right to work question, U.S./Soviet differences, 50
she’s appointed chairman, 46
Soviet demands of U.S. at Geneva, her rebuttal, 54–55
State Department agrees to Covenant, 59–60
U.S. opposition to Covenant, attempt to win Lovett over, 58–59
United Nations, Eleanor and, first General Assembly meeting (London), she’s appointed delegate, 20
Albert Hall speech welcoming delegates, 32
Anglo-American anti-Soviet alliance, her views on, 35
appointment attacked by Pegler, 25
Assembly opens, Spaak elected president, 28
assigned to Committee III, Sandifer her chief aid, 27–28
business sessions, her observations on, 29–30
critical of U.S. male delegates, 34, 36
delegation meets press, Vandenberg and Dulles absent, 27
fellow delegates, 22–23
her views on own influence, 22
Spaak’s tribute to her, 30
refugee question, confrontation with Vishinsky over, 36–39
secretary-general, election of, 35
underrepresentation of women and women’s rights question, 33–34
voyage to England, shipboard activities and views, 23–24
world government, her views on chances for, 32
United Nations, Eleanor and, General Assembly (1946), 35–37
her State Department advisers, 45
refugee question, second confrontation with Vishinsky, 45
United Nations, Eleanor and, General Assembly (1950), Korea main preoccupation, 191
her report on Third World distrust of U.S., 191–93
United Nations, Eleanor and, General Assembly (Paris)
Communism issue, her speech at the Sorbonne, 63–64
Declaration before Committee III, its adoption, 64–65
praise for her role in Declaration’s influence, 65–67
United Nations, Eleanor and, Human Rights Commission session (1952), Covenants question, Soviets attack U.S., 206
campaign against U.S. support of, 206, 207, 219
her defense before 1952 Democratic convention, 208, 209
United Nations Atomic Energy Control Commission, 27, 77
United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, 55
United Nations Emergency Force, 123
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United Nations Headquarters Site Agreement, 61
United Nations Human Rights Prize, 67
Up from Liberalism
, 322
U.S. Committee for the Care of European Children, 99
U.S. Committee for the United Nations, 336
U.S. Committee on Intellectual Interchange with Japan, 222–23
Val-Kill, Eleanor buys, 7–8, 168–70
Vandenberg, Arthur H., 23, 24, 26–27, 38, 41, 70, 84
Variety
, 181
Vatican, 155, 156
Vaughan, Harry, 147
Vaughn, Bennett (Mrs. Philip), 268
Veterans Administration, 325
Vietnam, 326
Vinson, Frederick M., 95
Vishinsky, Andrei, 40, 69, 73, 91–93, 97, 181
attends Eleanor’s seventieth birthday party, 239
Eleanor opposes on refugee question, 37–39, 45
Voice of America, 191, 194
Volunteers for Stevenson, 211
Volunteers in Politics, 237
Voytkins, Ellie (niece), 314, 320, 334
Wagner, Robert, 152, 157, 280, 320
Waldron, Nurse, 339
Walker, Frank, 23, 32
Wallace, Henry, 19, 77–78, 79–80, 92, 94–95, 143, 242
approves of PCA, Eleanor backs ADA, 80
and Baruch Plan for control of atomic energy, 76–77
break with Truman administration, Eleanor’s reaction, 74–75
criticizes U.S. foreign policy in Europe, 82–83
her disenchantment with, 76–77
opposition to Marshall Plan, 89
third-party candidacy (1948), 137–38, 139, 145, 146
Walton, William, 303–4
Warburg, Eva, 112
Warburg, Ingrid, 112
Waren, Helen, 104, 106
Warren, Avra M., 193, 195
Warren, Earl, 143, 174
Washington Square, 315
Wechsler, James A., 237, 331
Weekes, Freddy, 321
Weekes, Mrs. Freddy, 321
Weiss, Louis, 99, 101
Weizmann, Chaim, 101, 103
Welles, Sumner, 120
“Where Do I Get My Energy?,” 323
White, Mrs. Walter, 251
White, Walter, 17, 52, 61
White House, Eleanor moves out of, 3
Whiteman, Marjorie, M., 50
Wiese, Otis, 185
Wigner, Eugene, 19
Wilhelmina, Princess, 190
Wilkins, Roy, 251–53
Williams, Aubrey, 285, 319
Williams, Charl, 133
Williams, G. Mennen, 282, 283, 292
Wilmerding, Helen, 1
Wilson, Woodrow, 101
Wiltwyck School for Boys, 17, 165, 314
Winant, John Gilbert, 2, 14, 26
Windsor, Duke and Duchess of, 182
Winslow, Richard S., 218
Wise, Stephen S., 100, 103, 104
Woman’s Home Companion
, 136
Women’s House of Detention, 314
Wood, Lee, 10
Woodrow Wilson Foundation, 241
Woolf, S. J., 18
World Women’s Party for Equal Rights, 33
Yalta, 143, 274–75
Yoshida, Shigeru, 224, 225
You Learn by Living
, 311
Youth Congress, 198
Yugoslavia, 35, 84–86, 229, 231–34
Yugoslavian and Greek relief, committees for, 17
Zanders, Roosevelt, 315
Zionism, 99, 100–101, 102, 115, 119
see also
Palestine question
Zuckerman, Mr., 165
Praise for
Eleanor: The Years Alone
“HER HUSBAND, THE PRESIDENT, WAS DEAD. . . .Seventeen years of life were left to her, of whom her husband once jokingly prayed: ‘O Lord, make Eleanor tired.’ The Lord was not ready for that miracle in 1945, and Eleanor went on her controversial way. . . .She is always at the center of the stage, holding our attention as she acts out an extraordinarily rich life. . . .Lash’s book will always keep her memory fragrant.”
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National Observer
“SUPERB. . .Joseph P. Lash has reached the highest level of the biographer’s art. . . .His portrait of an extraordinary person whose journey from shy, narrow-viewed young woman to world-venerable figure is astounding. . . .Certain to receive wide acclaim.”
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Wall Street Journal
“A NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENT. . . .Will the huge audience for
Eleanor and Franklin
lose anything if it fails to go on to
Eleanor: The Years Alone
? It will indeed. Mr. Lash’s concluding volume is remarkable for its accounting of what it takes to translate sympathy, vitality, and natural intellect into major influences on the quality of the national life.”
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Saturday Review
“A REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENT. . .lucid. . .sensitive. . .as rich as his understanding of the remarkable human being he celebrates.”
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The New Yorker
“READS SWIFTLY AND INTERESTINGLY FROM FIRST PAGE TO LAST. Joe Lash entirely merits the laurels and rewards brought by the first volume and certain to be brought by this one.”
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Chicago Tribune, Book World
“FASCINATING. . .ABSORBING. . . .A definitive look at one of the most liberated women of all time.”
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New York Daily News
“COMPELLING. . . .The story of a truly remarkable woman. It is unlikely that our century will know another one to equal her.”
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“ENTHRALLING. . . .One leaves the book feeling that Eleanor may have been an even greater human being than her very great husband.”
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Philadelphia Bulletin
Copyright © 1972 by Joseph P. Lash
Foreword copyright © 1972 by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.
“Acknowledgment” from
Collected Poems, 1917–1982
by Archibald MacLeish;
copyright © 1985 by the Estate of Archibald MacLeish; reprinted by permission
of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company; all rights reserved. Excerpt
from Adlai Stevenson letter, November 11, 1948; series 1: Correspondence;
1919–1965; Adlai E. Stevenson Papers, Public Policy Papers, Department of Rare
Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
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Lash, Joseph P. 1909–
Eleanor: the years alone.
Continues the biography of Mrs. Roosevelt which began in the author’s
Eleanor and Franklin.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Roosevelt, Eleanor (Roosevelt) 1884–1962.
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