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and had written her a beautiful letter, and so forth and so on. I have never asked Mrs. Roosevelt if this was true. I always meant to, and then I guess I thought I'd better not. This was the story he told me. I have no idea if it's true or not.

He was the kind of a man who was too agreeable for his job, too elegant for what he was purporting to be. His elegance with me, and with the other people he had met in what he regarded as the upper circles of society, was more marked than it was among the sailor men and the radio operators, who didn't think that he was an elegant fellow.

I soon became convinced that Rathbone was definitely operating in the Communist field, although butter would melt in his mouth he was so pious. I don't think he came in to see me, but twice. Once I've described, and the other time was briefly when there was a shipping or dock strike on. He came in currying favor, trying to tell me something. It was then I became convinced that he was operating for the Communists. I don't recall now what he had to tell me, but I recall the reaction that I had to it. It was a tattletale sort of thing that a straight union man doesn't do. I thought he was trying to plant something





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