Note 1 — PREFACE
Reading edition
New Statesman, November 17, 1961, p. 732, col. 2,t. The difficulty of speaking on some phases of the present world situation without crossing Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt is illustrated by following remarks which she made in a recent interview. First, the President has urged the people to build shelters. Mrs. Roosevelt said: “I don’t believe in private shelters, or school shelters.” It must be done, she said, through “a comprehensive government program” if it is to be done at all. Second, the President indicates that we shall fight if necessary. Military men teach the same thing. She said: “War is inadmissible anymore.... Today willingness to go to war means willingness to face the loss of civilization.” (Hal Boyle, “Eleanor Roosevelt Recalls Pearl Harbor,” Arkansas Democrat, Dec. 7, 1961, p. 19.)