| | BORIS CHALIAPIN | | The Apr. 7, 1952, cover of TIME | | | |
“Mrs. Roosevelt is now 67 years old. She had just concluded three exhausting months as a delegate to the United Nations session in Paris. She had flown through the Middle East with rubberneck stops at Beirut, Damascus, Amman, Jerusalem, and Tel Aviv. She had prefaced her tour of India with a 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…Although Mrs. Roosevelt was traveling as a private citizen, she was treated almost like a visiting head of state. She addressed the Indian Parliament, was feted by scores of officials from Nehru on down. Newspapers ran her every word as front-page news. ‘Please,’ she pleaded at one point, when she was questioned about American race problems, ‘do not read Uncle Tom’s Cabin and believe it represents the United States today.”
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