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ruined her, that you've sent out a letter in which she's on the letterhead to the Jewish groups, and she's getting calls at midnight from rabbis who are asking her why she's on that letter. She wants to know how many people you sent that letter to. I said, “I sent it only to my Jewish list.” He said, “How big is your Jewish list?” I said, “A hundred thousand.” (laughs) He said, “She would like to send out a reply to your list. Will you make your list available?” Because at that point she had held a press conference and she resigned not from the Women's Strike for Peace but from the International Women's League, which is a minute organization. The Women's Strike for Peace - she's one of the founders of it. She'd never resign from them, and they are worse than the first one. Okay. He said, Will you give her the list?” And I said, “Well, I'll be happy to make it available. But if she is going to send out a letter to them, I cannot permit her to use her frank for that purpose.” He said, “You mean you'll make her use stamps to 100,000 people?” (laughs) So I said, “Well if she asks me nicely, I may make the list available to her.” She never asked me nicely, and I never made the list of 40 available to her.

Now, just to pursue the Women's Strike for Peace; then the board of the Women's Strike for Peace said that Ruth Gage-Colby never had their authorization to do this, that that was not their position In fact, it is their position. But they were so upset by the unfair -- I shouldn't say unfair but by the attacks that were coming on Bella, that they decided they had to