ocr: Both FDR and Eleanor loathed the methods of the Dies Committee, but in the Red Scare days oflate 1939, Eleanor advised the Youth Congress leaders to testify. Eleanor knew many of these student activists and attended the hearings. She took six of them to lunch at the White House, then invited them back for dinner and to stay overnight as guests. Joseph Lash was one oft this circle. Throughout the 1930s, Lash had been a dedicated leftist. He had joined a socialist organization in 1931,and in 1935 joined. the Popular Front, Despite its revolutionary tone, the Popular Front had thrown its support ...
