Wives

"The Assistant Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt were among those who came back with us and we found them very delightful compan ions."

So wrote Woodrow Wilson's widow recently in the Satevepost, describing the Wilsons' first return from the Peace Conference in February 1919. In next week's installment, Widow Wilson relates how, when she saw her husband being crucified on his Treaty of Versailles and Covenant of the League, she suggested that his doctor make him resign in favor of Vice President Marshall.

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. Roosevelt, whose U. S. popularity is higher than her husband's in current polls, last week went into type on her own account. While her husband was catching what-for from the Senate on his foreign policy, in circumstances not dissimilar to Woodrow Wilson's 1919 dilemma (see p. 12), Mrs.Roosevelt wrote: "As far as possible I never discuss questions of partisan politics, but. . . .

"We are the leading democracy of the world. Do our sympathies lie with the other democracies or do they lie with the totalitarian states? The present tempest in a teapot is stirred up by the fact that a Frenchman flew in a test plane which France quite legally was going to buy. . . .

" Germany is geared to produce 2 thou sandplanes a month; France to produce one hundred planes a month. . . .

"I want to see all the nations of the world reduce their armaments. ... I have seen no acquiescence on the part of Mr. Hitler. Have you? Who is taking a belligerent attitude in the world today?"

Close to belligerent was another public statement, on Neutrality, by Mrs. Frank lin Roosevelt last fortnight (see p. 12).

> Dr. George Gallup's American Institute of Public Opinion last week reported 69% of the electorate against a third term for Franklin Roosevelt, down 1% since December, up 6% since the summer of 1937.

> In the name of the U. S. (Franklin Roosevelt, Pres.), Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth last week claimed 400,000 square miles of snowy Antarctica.

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