Show news BEH T T TP areto c 1 THE rag by PAUL MALLON y released by western newspaper union WALLACE SPEECH MEANT ONLY TO INFLUENCE N Y PRIMARY washington the inside on the byrnes stuttgart speech was that it was made to influence the german elections the inside on the wallace new york speech was that it was made to influence the communists in the new york election unhappily the twain met president truman being caught on both sides of the same question finally had to put wallace out of his cabinet mr wallace has told his audi ence assembled under the banner of the national citizens political action committee which Is a CIO political holding c company om pany created to get around the law lisitin limiting g direct labor contributions in political efforts and the independent citizens committee of 0 the arts sciences and professions that mr truman had just two days ago read these words and said they represented the policy of his administration now wallace then cabine teer of commerce for mr truman w was as referring probably only to his own words about not being pro russian or pro british but he let the audience know the president had gone over the speech and he did no not say the president had cut out anything TAKE FLOWERS DUCK BRICKS this was a blunder customarily a cabinet officer only takes blame for everything a president does wrong the people are not supposed to know a president ever makes a mistake cabinet officers are chosen as shielding goats among other reasons rare indeed Is the one so bold as to profess his speech has been read over by the president ot of course presidents frequently have read these speeches of cabinet officers in advance but quietly so no one can prove it the president usually keeps himself in a position to accept congratulatory flowers later if the speech goes over well but to duck and say he never heard of it if the bricks start to fly the blunder only started at those points mr wallace had bad no business making a foreign policy speech lie he does riot not know any more about it presumably suni su ably than about commerce although he was secretary of commerce and might be assumed to speak with authority on the latter subject when his speech laid down a foreign policy in conflict with the policy mr brynes has been building up for more tha aban n a year with day and night work the protests of mr byrnes could be heard anonymously through the press around the world now mr byrnes had been doing right well with his foreign policy at least he won his election the returns from the british zone showed a victory for the christian democrats while the communists ran last what mr wallace did to the dewey election in new york city will not be ascertained for certain until november but he did not win any votes in moscow Ms his plan to set up two worlds of influence one Mos cows and ane antl anti british a and nd critical of our friends on our side was immediately rejected by the moscow radio it did not even carry what he said not recognizing that wallace was proposing a new antl anti byrnes foreign policy the moscow english language broadcast 1 it I t may not even have been mentioned in the russian said 1 I quote at a large political rally in new york city the united states secretary of commerce and senator pepper demanded a return to Roosevel ts foreign policy the audience loudly applauded wallaces condemnation of imperialism but punctuated his remarks against the USSR with cries of disapproval what wallace did to intellectual liberal thought was chaotic I 1 will give you one example in his fifth paragraph he said up till now peace has been negative and unexciting in the next breath two paragraphs later honest to goodness you can look it up modem inventions have made p peace bace the roost most exciting thing in the world Is the peace exciting or is it unexciting there you have mr wallace firmly maintaining ang both sides of the question only a paragraph away from himself in I 1 both directions CONFUSED AND conflicting NG his speech was on both sides of every question similarly on trade as commerce secretary he be was most interesting apparently he wanted to spend more than four billion dollars more of our money abroad to build up a demand for our goods among backward people who cannot pay for them and at a time when we cannot even get enough production of anything for ourselves indeed his speech was offered during the paralyzing and truckers strikes |