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...Cover] Heat had shimmered in Bombay since dawn, and hung on in the stifling dusk after the sunlight's glare was gone. But a thousand patient Hindus stood tight-packed and sweating before the Taj Mahal hotel to see the American Widow Roose- velt. They were rewarded by a strange tableau. A gleaming open automobile awaited the famous visitor. But when she climbed in, she did not sit down. She faced the applauding crowd, bowed her head and folded her hands before her in the Hindu posture of namqskar. It was a gesture which would have horrified and infuriated...
...fast week of seeing slums and soldiery, of meeting voluble Moslem dignitaries and veiled Moslem women in the Pakistan cities of Karachi, Lahore and Peshawar. Her tour has not been without moments of conflict. Her visit to Pakistan aggravated a female feud between Begum Lia-quat AH Khan, widow of Pakistan's late Prime Minister, and Miss Fatima Jinnah, sister of Founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah. The Begum had invited Mrs. Roosevelt to Pakistan. Outflanked, Miss Fatima stonily boycotted the famous guest and ordered the Pakistani Girl Scouts, whom she heads, to boycott her too. Mrs. Roosevelt immediately asked...
...dinner. She crept into native mud huts, worked an ancient spinning wheel in New Delhi, accepted a handmade revolver from Khyber Pass tribesmen, showed some Pakistani teen-agers how to dance the "Roger de Coverley." In the seven years since she has become the world's most famous widow, Mrs. Roosevelt has hardly been still a moment : kind, literal, awesomely helpful and endlessly patient, she has trotted up & down the stairways of the world, year after year - straightening its curtains, eying its plumbing, and occasionally admonishing the landlords of those political slums be hind the Iron Curtain, in sharp...
...First Lady. Amidst all these endeavors, she has also become an international figure of tremendous influence and prestige, both as the widow of Franklin Roosevelt and, increasingly, as a delegate to the U.N. To millions in the Western world, who react with uneasiness and doubt to the U.S. atom bomb and U.S. emphasis on material success, she is a symbol of hope, sanity and human dignity. Her earnest idealism, which many of her own countrymen sometimes find a little absurd, is eminently reassuring to great masses of people who are exposed to Communist cries of American warmongering...
...when her mother-in-law died. She was 60 when the bleak news of Franklin Roosevelt's death came from Warm Springs. For 40 years-years she could not have imagined as a bride-her life had been irrevocably part of theirs. She was a lonely widow. But the 40 years had pushed her far out into the rushing stream of events. Harry Truman asked her, as custodian of the Roosevelt name, to serve the U.S. in the United Nations...