A plea by Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. for racial and religious tolerance was greeted by stony silence at a rally of the recently-formed Women United at Carnegie Hall last night, attended by 2,300 persons.
The audience, which had been enthusiastically applauding every speaker, evinced marked coolness to Mrs. Roosevelt, honorary chairman of the meeting, when she declared that “tolerance is the cornerstone upon which this nation was founded” and said she had in mind anti-Semitism in particular.
“That sort of thing will destroy our Republic if we allow it to go on,” she asserted.
Women United is an anti-war organization whose executive secretary, Mrs. Geraldine Buchanan Parker, was formerly associated with Verne Marshall’s No Foreign War Committee. Other speakers last night were Senators Clark, Missouri, and Reynolds, North Carolina, and Mrs. Robert A. Taft, wife of the Ohio Senator.
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