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Show a ' tf$::-yy ' . ' gee: St Bg Yet brook Pegler HAVING entertained national inventions of the Republicans, cits and the Democrats in that , Philadelphia was apathetic a the impending rites of a t0 m-eanization calling itself the S eslve Py. held for the pur-0( pur-0( ratifying the nominations f'rv Wallace and Glen Taylor. ' was no worse than fair be- it was understood by all con- ca cerned that this '1- - " !o if-! ' 1 it , i ! was not a serious convention of a legitimate party but strictly an occasion oc-casion for Communist Com-munist propaganda. It was to be a ratification gala rather than a nominating nom-inating convention because Wallace and Taylor already B ted become the candidates in many a eeches hi'iier and yon across the a into? wd had cUected an '' j enormoaR kitty. '' Ilie Progressive party was 1 a jctuaUy the Communist party ' ol US wi'h an uncertain fringe ,1 political neurotics, privateers and renegades from the Democratic Demo-cratic household. Except in the fact that it was a 1 third party convention and had brought together most of the para- ' sites from the European compounds of the City of New York, this one tad little to common with the con- f clave of the nuts and bolts in Cleveland in 1936. I The fakery of this Fakery operation, meaning lt the insulting dis- 1 , , honesty so appar- parent mt eyen tQ common man, was quite different to the relatively innocent mockery of the standard Republican and ' Democratic meetings. Everybody knew that President Truman was to be the nominee before be-fore the D em 0 c r a ti c congress opened and the formula was so cut 1 and dried that he was brought up to the hall and stood in a corner rat of sight long before they could '. crowd the details through the mic-1 mic-1 rophones. BUT IN THIS CASE, : WALLACE AND TAYLOR PICKED THEMSELVES AND THE KREMLIN KREM-LIN TOOK THEM UP AND ALL THE AVOWED COMMUNISTS AXD THE MORE NOTORIOUS SUSPECTS HAVE ACCLAIMED : THEM. Even the little parasitic private society of old New Deal bureaucrats bureau-crats known as the Americans for Democratic Action has denounced I the Wallace party as a Communist , front. That is going pretty far, because be-cause in the big days of Franklin Frank-lin D., the bosses of the A. D. A. sere peered at and eaves-, eaves-, dropped by congressional in-1 in-1 vestigators who reported back officially that most of them were Fellow Travelers if not Bolshe-viki Bolshe-viki ol the most pernicious kind. The fact that the Americans for Democratic Action could horn into both the Truman and Wallace conventions con-ventions and get heard on propositions proposi-tions calculated to make publicity i and nuisance-power tends to prove I at the American system of parties J as designed to foster rackets. Next thing anyone knows, like the so-called American Labor party New York, the A. D. A. will be !le to make petty deals with major Parties and some of its displaced bureaucrats will be back in Wash-Ston Wash-Ston with their feet on desks again. No Job The Democrats still have a chance "I of receiving Wal- Projpecf lace's vote in some last-minute propo- ISJMI, but it seems unlikely that f Truman would promise him a keeper's job in trade. HE JT DOESN'T MATTER. B? the time the Democrats and i "epublicans have got through liV ? J" 111 the big campaign they v nave wooed away all the f the northern cities ex-e ex-e the card-holding Communists til I'6, few in number anyway, al-2& al-2& '""d in the voice. The for-Mtt for-Mtt in New York will stick with Sim ,C teCaUSe DiS letter t0 Stalin tevcalT6 ag and Ws Platform as ' neart his speeches are a cold I mdorsement oi Russian war against the United States. gla "ty 11 canopy of steel and Sidewa, !l overhangs Broad street Ji o t 1 1116 Be"evue-Stratford t'ns m adorned wih whirling C rao,mted on broomsticks read- "4l?eCtively "PEACE," ) RANCE" nd "FREE-tt "FREE-tt , t 8 thev whirled they creat-""fereslf8 creat-""fereslf8 effect' Perhaps not tanks 4 Some saboteur in the op, Wer und the rim of the can-Taylor can-Taylor , names of Wallace and J it saju blue on white stripes and "M-stor, 1 ' 016 hotel at the sec-''Veh,?. sec-''Veh,?. el hung limp, inoffen-White inoffen-White letters " blue, Pes!lve pan" T.ention 01 me Pr0" tew!,'ileBt Patents of alien lion to n,raiSed no aPPrehen- ""'wtions Cl'ZenS' WCary f M W ' aIarms, promises a on! Bealher- allaCelrespect. as always, the fteit Br.eXCeUed- That was in handouts. |