The Pittsburgh Press (October 9, 1940)
LIBERTY COSTS DEARLY, FIRST LADY DECLARES
New York, Oct. 9 (UP) –
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt warned the nation’s women today that they must decide whether they are willing to pay the price of liberty – a “pretty heavy” price.
Addressing members of the Business and Professional Women’s League at a tea here, the wife of the President said:
A part of this price deals with the cost of preparedness. But equally important is the cost of democracy – of making our country fit to be defended.
Women must think through their creeds, she said, and decide “from day to day what we must do for peace in a war-torn world.”
She said the American women will want to “take the responsibility for some of the human suffering and alleviate as much human suffering as we can.”