Eleanor Roosevelt in Hiroshima, Japan, 1953

ID: 346 ~ Source: "[Eleanor Roosevelt at a press interview in Hiroshima, Japan, 1953.]" Image. From Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum: 5478(2). http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/collections/franklin/?p=digitallibrary/digitalcontent&id=2563 (accessed December 15, 2017). ~ Date: June 8, 1953
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Eleanor Roosevelt is pictured at a press interview in Hiroshima, Japan during her cultural exchange visit. While in Hiroshima, Eleanor attended a wreath-laying for the victims killed by the Atomic-Bomb

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By Eleanor Roosevelt
"On Monday morning I was invited to meet with a group of about 20 members of the political leaders of the Diet. The Committee seemed rather pleased by this and said it was an unusual thing for them to do. I was not asked to make a speech but I…