If You Ask Me
by Eleanor Roosevelt

Of course one always observes some formalities with royalty. For instance, a list of the guests is submitted before royalty comes to your house, and you extend such courtesies as allowing royalty to precede you, not sitting down until they sit down, allowing them to make the move to leave and so on.

I don't curtsy to royalty because while we were in the White House my husband never liked the idea of having an American, the wife of the head of the U.S. Government, curtsy. Since I had established the custom of not curtsying, I think it would be peculiar for me to begin doing so now!

I think that we as a people are not fighting hard enough for our individual freedom at the present time, but I feel certain that we will get out of this apathy and regain our faith in ourselves before long.

Yes, I favor German rearmament under proper limitations and surveillance and within the Western community.

It is a very simple recipe: Melt a lump of butter in a chafing dish, break eggs one at a time, stirring all the time, seasoning with salt and pepper as you like. (My husband liked some cream poured in toward the end.) Keep stirring until they are the consistency that you like, and then put them on toast and serve at once.

I am not sufficiently well acquainted with Admiral Strauss and his work, and therefore cannot agree or disagree with any attack on him. When I say I find the Alsops "among the most reliable columnists" it doesn't mean I necessarily agree with everything they write. However, I should like to say I entirely agree with the Alsop brothers in their defense of Dr. Robert Oppenheimer.

I give very small amounts to as many charities as possible which I feel are doing a good piece of work. I make larger donations to a few charities or organizations in which I take a special interest, or with which I am working. I also have a few charities to which I give because my mother-in-law or my husband had a particular interest in them.

Naturally if antisegregation extends to pupils it will apply to teachers. We should look for qualified teachers regardless of race or religion. This same thing applies to the nursing profession. We should look for good nurses regardless of race or religion.

I drive a small Studebaker, and I turn it in every year. I have been getting the same make for several years.

I feel that this is a proper question for debate and I don't see why a military college such as Annapolis or West Point should not be permitted to debate the same type of question as is debated in other colleges.

Mrs. Coolidge, Mrs. Wilson, and Mrs. Truman. I have seen Mrs. Wilson and Mrs. Truman this past year, but I have not had the pleasure of seeing Mrs. Coolidge for a very long time.

I would not be able to give you a definite reason, though I think a great many things have contributed to it—the war and its aftermath, automobiles, comics, newspapers, radio, television and the great tension and rapidity surrounding everyday life, which has made a less quiet place of the home. I must emphasize, however, that I don't feel prepared to give an answer to this question.

No, I don't subscribe to any foreign magazines. My husband's family for years subscribed to Punch, but we gave that up some years ago.