The Daily Record

Eleanor Roosevelt Gets Long Ovation
CONVENTION HALL, CHICAGO (IP)- Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt walked down to the speakers' platform into the heart of the 31st Democratic national convention. She had come to talk about the United Nations. She carried a prepared speech in which she said this country, but for the U. N. "would walk alone, ruled by fear instead of confidence and hope."
But the delegates, the alternates and the galleries first wanted to get something in the record about Mrs. Roosevelt. They loved her, and did so for 17 straight minutes with whistles, shouts, applause and stamping feet.
TUMULT BREAKS OUT
Temporary Convention Chairman Paul A. Dever introduced Mrs. Roosevelt. She took her place on the podium and the tumult began. It looked for a time that she never would get to speak. Delegates waggled their state standards in Mrs. Roosevelt's face. The alternates tried to crowd their way through the delegates, packed elbow to elbow in front of the platform. The gallery whistled and yelled its approval.
Mrs. India Edwards, vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee sought to quiet the uproar. She retreated when her efforts intensified it. Dever gaveled nine futile times, then gave up grinning when no one paid attention.
Mrs. Roosevelt stood smiling, her glasses in her hand, waving. She tried again and again to hush the uproar, extending her hands palm downward in a gesture that proved wholly futile.
BIGGEST YET
It was the biggest demonstration at a convention that so far had seemed calm by comparison to the Republican meeting here two weeks ago.
Mrs. Roosevelt then had her say. She spoke of the United Nations with sincerity and emotion. She said that to weaken or hamstring the UN now, through lack of faith or lack of vision, would be "to condemn ourselves to endless struggle for survival in a jungle world."
She defended UN participation in the Korean War. She said if the aggression by the North Koreans had not been met, further piecemeal conquests would have been encouraged "all over the globe."
Mrs. Roosevelt said a "just and lasting peace" cannot be achieved until the Communists agree to "honest terms." Through the UN she said, negotiations can be continued and the desired peace may eventually be reached.
CITES THE COST
The cost of supporting the UN and its specialized agencies amounts to 77 cents a year for each man, woman and child in the United States, Mrs. Roosevelt said. The cost of World War II, she said, has been estimated at $1,708 for every person then alive.