[2] She pursued further studies at the London School of Economics and at the Sorbonne, and earned a doctorate in international law at Columbia University.

[8] In 1944 she testified before the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, in favor of repealing federal taxes on margarine.

[7][10] She was a national officer of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) from 1959 to 1972, serving as membership chair and assistant to the executive director, Mildred Scott Olmsted.

"The Communist sympathies, if not the party membership, of Eleanor Fowler are well established by her public record," noted a House committee report in 1944.

[7] "She was periodically arrested, convicted, and fined, usually for disorderly conduct," explained her obituary in The Philadelphia Inquirer, which also quoted her as saying "It's all part of making our point.