My Day by Eleanor Roosevelt  Text Size: Small Text Normal Text
Large Text Larger Text  HYDE PARK—Everyone will join in sympathy
for Gov. and Mrs. Nelson Rockefeller in their anxiety over their
youngest son. By the time this column is published I hope the
Governor's trip with his daughter will be rewarded by a reunion
with his son. It is a most anxious trip and all one can do is
pray that this young life with so much promise may be saved.  *
* *  I have a letter from an Englishwoman, whom I do not know,
but I shall copy here a portion of it because her point of view
is one shared by many Europeans and one to which we in this
country should give some attention.  She starts by speaking of
her relatives here, the beauty of our country, the people she
has known and liked, and then she writes:  "But, oh, the
dreadful publicity that your country gets abroad. The BBC
interviews with the folk who are all in favor of war, the
elaborate fallout shelters with guns to defend them against
fellow Americans, the `survival' f