Ah, My Pretty Red Wing

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt writes so many letters she can hardly be expected to keep track of them all. Last week one turned up in an embarassing place.

Mrs. Roosevelt had endorsed a statement, sponsored by the American Labor Party's Communist-dominated left wing, to support only politicos pledged to an all-out war effort. She thought she was giving her blessing to a program of the entire Labor Party. But in recent weeks the Red left wing has been using the months-old letter in an effort to show that she supported them against the merely pinko right wing. The President's wife, as angry as she permits herself to get, wrote a stinging rebuke to the Red wing:

"I have no illusions whatsoever as to the stand which the American Communist Party has taken in American affairs. I admire Russia and the marvelous fight which Russia and the marvelous fight which Russia is utting up. Russia has a right to the kind of government that Russians desire to have, but I do not wish to be controlled in this country by an American group that, in turn, is controlled by Russia and Russia's interests. There are many things, naturally, on which all groups agree. I should like to see labor people united, because it would add to their strength, but they cannot be united politically with people who act under the dictates and in the interests of another nation."

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