LEADING U.S. TO WAR

Chronicle (Levin), 31 December 1947, Page 5

LEADING U.S. TO WAR

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' ^ — 77 * ... i Henry Wallace Decries.THe Present Poficy

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Received Tuesday, 7 p.m. CHICACtO, Dec. 29. Mr. Henry Wallace announced iii 4 broadeast tonight that he WQuld run a an independent candidate for thc yresidency in the eleetiohs ift 'Noverti ;>er, 1948, and said thh tiriid had h6nd . or ' ' a new party to. iight the war-. .nakers ". - • The menace of war could Be' met aho overeontb biily b'y a heW ^dlitic91 aiigu .nent in Ambficaj, said Mr. "Wallace 'Everywhere in the fjhited. States tdlav, alndhg faffiibfS, wOfkfefS; Sinai; ousirieSS aiifl ' jii'ofeSkioiial me'ol att;. women, I ilttd confusiljn^ uncertaintv md fear. The people do not^as.k, 4 Wil. here be anbtlier war V but, ' Wii en wit. I1 che War cdmhP Ev6iy\VHere I iinft timi the p"t-bf)le ai'e Spbtldiiig SO much for food and .rent that. they eahnot alfor-i .he customai'y services fforh a doctoi mcl dentist; Thev do not ask 'Will cliere be ahotnfei" BejiresSion 9 ' but When will the depression startl ' Peace md aliiihdanhe nibah SO hiuch td mbn ihat I ha vb Said repeatedlyj. wheii isked abou't a third "party, 'if tiie JemOci'atie Pafty edntihues to. be a party of war ahd de^ressiorij I will see 0 it that the people have.a ehance to rote for peacb and prosperity '. 5 ' ' To those who have come to hie asking the cbhditioiis of my adhefence .o the present Deniocfatie adminiStra-i-irin, I have sitid: 'Let the admlhistra.ion repudiate lini yersal . mllitary training and rid itself pf the Wall Street mllitary' team- that iS lekdihg us towards war. ' " Air. Wallace continued: "I have insisted that the Democratic administra-. dou curb the bvergrbwing power bf proflts ahd monopbly and take concrete steps to presefve the people 's iviing standards. I have dertranded that the administration cease its attaeks 011 Amfei'iean eivil liber-ties. . My terms to the Deiiioci-atie higB cbmhiand have oeen well knowh. By tlibir actious and llnaliy by ilieir wofds, they have said: ' Henry Wallace, we Wdlcome your support but we will not change our policies. ' lht ansWering me the 1 Democratic higlt corivmaiid alSo gave its answer to miilipns bf Ahieficans who demand the rigiit tb vote fbr peace aua prosperity. "The bigger Ihe peace ybte Of 1948 ihe more deflhitely the world will kiiow that the United Btates is hOt behind the bi-partisan reaetiohary Wttt policy which is dividing Ihe World into two

armed canips and maKmg inevitaoie xne. day when Americafi Sdldiefs will be lying in their Arctic Suits iii tlib Russian snow. There iS rtb feal light l>etween a Trumah and a Repiiblican. Botli stand for a pglifey wrhi'ch Opens tlie door to war ,in our lifetirtie £lnd makes war eeriain for our cKildfeh. ".One of the fifst!;ifenis oh the agehda for . the next sess?on of Uongress is universdl military'trhimhg. 1 say the fipfvt , t bbje.cU , :q| 1? jjbgf essl ves - is _ the defeat of this Bill .which Wdiila dehvSi our IS-vear-Olds to t'he ariny ahd cosv the nation 2,000^000,006 dbllarS vearly." Mr. Wallace po'inted. • out that tlu "fantastic appcopriations being rtiadt for Tiiilithry adventUres in Greece, Turkey afi'd Chinh. arid for armartierits at liome," were being paid for by thfe people iri higher prifegs for necessities •'War pfepai-ktioriS create record proflts un'd'er big btiSi-riesS btit: only f dlse prosperity for tlie pebplfe, " hb added. "The rich hionopolistS, " he kaid ' ' have always been phore ready to Saeri lice their sohS than their money iri wai but now they hitvg rerie'hgd a poiiil where they are willing to saferiflee bOti. for the Salte of World cbntrdl. It just doesn't make seftse. The tiiiie haS conn for a new party to iight. these wau liiakers, The rieW party riiust starid fbi a positive youth prdgrarilhie of abrind anc.e and seburity, not sdaf^ity diid war; We can preverit a depfessiOn ahd wai if we only organi.se for p'eace in thc sahte compieiifehsive Way wd Organisc for war, 1 flglit thb Truihan doctrihe and M.arshaii .,plah aS thby afe^being applied'Beci'Use I.hfey divdde EUrOpe ihtc two;warrihg-.camjis'." Mr. -Wallace s^id boths;-the Uiiited .naike" a.-contri butioh to the litiderstanding and pea'et whicli is esSentiai to the World. After sayiiig there niust be a rieW political alignment. in the Uiiited States, Mr. WalliLce said: 1 ' To that end I shall run as an independent candi date for the Presldeiit in 1948; ' '