While as we can see by the headline the Republicans shun the American Youth Congress and are not sending a representative to their gathering this month. FDR will be attending this conference and will be booed by the pro-communist group when he says in his speech that the Soviet Union is “run by a dictatorship as absolute as any other dictatorship in the world” (Weinberg, 572).
I don’t have an exact date for the speech, all I have is that it is this month (Feb, 40). Maybe someone can dig up an reference to the actual conference. Clearly the swing in American perspective towards the Soviet Union has been such that FDR is even honing his speeches to reflect this new animosity. (remember the pole from the beginning of January)
Source: A World at Arms by Gerhard L. Wenberg.
A contingent from the American Youth Congress visited the White House on Feb. 10. Roosevelt spoke to them as they gathered on the lawn.
The Missus will be speaking to the kids the following day (the 11th). I imagine there will be a reference to this in her Dear Diary.