WALLACE STANDS BY HIS SPEECH

Chronicle (Levin), 17 September 1946, Page 5

WALLACE STANDS BY HIS SPEECH

i Press Assn .•

ANNOUNCEMENT APPARENTLY HERALDED "WIDE OPEN CABINET SPLIT

By Telegrap 7

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Iiccoivcd Tuesday, 11.5 a.m. NEW YORK, Sept. 16. "I stnnd upon niv Xcw York speeeh," said tho U.S, Secretary of Commerce, Mr. Wallaee, in a statement to-day. ITe added: "It is int ei'csl ino- to fii-d that botli Extreme Right and Left disagreed." Mr. Wallaee said lie would continue 1o work for a just and lasting peaee, and would agaiu speak on tliis subjeot in the near future. Tke Associated Press says tliat Wr. Wallaee's announeement apparently heralded a wide open Cabinet split. llis tighting tono rendered it imperativc for President Truman to rcvie.w the wliole erisis between J\1 1*. Bvrnes and Alr. Wallaee. Earliei* State Department officials told reporters tlicy assnmed, in view of President Truman 's disavowal, that j\ir. Wallaee would feel it better not to mahe any more speeclies. Before issuing to-day \s statement, Mr. Wallaee telephoned Pi'esident Truman. The Moxeow newspaper, Pravda, eonimenting on Mr. Wallaee's poliey speeeh, said: "There ean be no doubt that this speeeh by the only surviving member of the Roosevelt administration in President Truman \s Cabinet, relleets the definite worry of more farseeing elements of the Pnited States regarding future peaee and the eft'eet upon it of the imperialist militarist tendeneies of American poliey."