Show Round Go B Drew I W WASHINGTON only WASHINGTON Only members mem mem- bers hers of the Roosevelt family knew it but relations between Mrs Roosevelt and Harry Hopkins Hop Hop- kins for a long time have been at the breaking point It is with great relief therefore therefore there there- fore that Mrs Roosevelt has re received received re- re received the news that Harry and his wife the former fonner Louise Macy finally have decided to move out of the White H House use and look for a home of their own Relations have lave been so cool between Hopkins and Mrs Roosevelt that her intimate friends and family say he has actually weakened her influence with the president To get the full significance of ot this break it is important to recall recall recall re re- re- re call that it was Mrs Roosevelt who really promoted Harry Hop Hop- kins king She discovered him when he was a social worker In New York first as director of the New York Tuberculosis and Health association later as di director director director di- di rector of the New York State Temporary Emergency Relief association F D R was then governor of New York but it was vas Mrs Roosevelt an ardent worker for the underprivileged who pushed Harry with her ner hus hus- I band Today however Mrs Roosevelt's Roosevelt's Roosevelt's Roose Roose- velt's closest inti intimates ates complain that Hopkins even usurps Mrs Roosevelt's household duties On at least one occasion for instance instance in in- instance in- in stance he rearranged the seatIng seating seating seat seat- ing at a White House dinner after the first lady had given specific instructions to the major major major ma ma- jor domo as to how the guests were to be arranged The first news Mrs Roosevelt had of the rearranged seating was when she arrived at the dinner table On another occasion Mrs Roosevelt lad had ad an engagement with Elmer Davis director of war information regarding a speech she was to deliver Abruptly Abruptly Ab Ab- Abruptly Ab- Ab Davis telephoned canceling can canceling can can- an- an celing the engagement Mrs Roosevelt blamed the cancellation cancellation cancellation cancella cancella- tion on Harry Hopki s. s I Other incidents have come comeback back to the family where Harry Hopkins has remarked to the president Look what your wife has said now or similar disparaging disparaging disparaging aging statements The first lady has confessed to friends that she has been upset and worried over the fact that her husband has deviated sharply sharp sharp- ly from his previous liberal policy pol pol- icy and has been unwilling to i adopt her progressive suggestions suggestions I as he once did She has blamed two people for this change Harry change Harry Hopkins and Winston Churchill It is no I secret among White House Intimates intimates intimates inti inti- mates that she believes Hopkins worships the ground the British prime minister walks on and leaps to promote his every wish While Mrs Roosevelt is a great champion of British Amer ican cooperation and herself pioneered th the plan to permit British children to come to this country during the air raids of 1940 nevertheless she does not think that this country should follow blindly all British policy or worship everything about the British I And she feels that her husband husband hus hus- husband band is too closely swayed forthe forthe forthe for- for the good of the nation by the Hopkins Churchill alliance Note One Note One thing which will bring a sigh of relief to all members of the White House staff when the move out is the exit of Mrs Macys Macy's poodles Mrs Macy as Mrs Hopkins is still called around the White House has one r room om of the executive mansion devoted to her poodles And woe be it to any of the Roosevelt grandchildren grandchildren grand grand- grandchildren children who opens the door 0 of o. this rooth by mistake e. e The real story of the mysterious ous and much-denied much emeralds which Lord Beaverbrook al allegedly allegedly al- al gave Mrs Harry Hopkins Hop Hop- Hopkins kins for a wedding present can now be told Lord Beaverbrook and the always alway denied that she received an emerald bracelet brace brace- let as a wedding present and this this denial was absolutely cor cor- cor- cor Actually the emeralds were given to Mrs Hopkins by Jock Whitney a time long-time friend whom many people expected would marry Mrs Macy but who married the former fonner Mrs Jimmy Roosevelt instead Lord Beaverbrook Beaverbrook gave the bride diamonds and therefore was quite correct in denying that he gave her emeralds What That happened was that Beaverbrook handed Hopkins a a. little package explaining that it was a present for his bride Harry put it in his pocket and did not open It until he arrived in the United States Then in order to pay customs he sent it to a a. jeweler for ap ap- The diamonds were of an style old-style cut and worth ab about ut Whether Hopkins was ethically ethical ethical- ly correct in permitting his wife vif a to accept the gift is still a subject subject sub sub- of debate inside the inner circle Under a Jaw law pasted passed In the days of George Washington no federal official is permitted to receive a gift from a a. foreign government Thi Thill law still stUl on the statute books was passed so that no government official would feel under obligation to a foreign government A As a re ro re- suIt sult Roosevelt has not been permitted permitted per per- to receive gifts of stamps for his collection from front foreign officials Actually Lord Beaverbrook was not an official of the British British Brit Brit- ish government when he gave the diamonds to Mrs Hopkins though he had been in charge of obtaining airplanes and munitions muni muni- from the U USA S A. A Also it was Mrs Hopkins not her husband hus bus band who received the present However since Harry is in m virtual charge of lend lease many members of the admin admin- adminIstration feel that he was eth- eth wrong in permitting his wife to accept the Beaverbrook present |