MR. HENRY WALLACE IN NEW ROLE

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5278, 13 December 1946, Page 5

MR. HENRY WALLACE IN NEW ROLE

(Press Assn.-

PU'BLICITY CM1PAIGN

ORGANISATION OF A PROGRESSIVE AMERICA

—Rec. 9.30 p.m.)

NEW YORK, Dec. 12. Mr.» Henry Wallaee, former Secretary of Commerce, writing nis first editorial as editor of the weekly "New Republie, said he coiisidered his new position a fighting job to organise a progressive 'America. Mr. Wallaee said he found no lasting defeat for the Democrats in the recent electioa* The American people rejected, a$- they would reject a Democratic party that* was not mili'fcarily progressive. Mr. Wallaee declared that' the Liberals5 new traditioh niu'st not be the false tradition of dollar diplomacy. The Government must act now to avert a depression; o'therwise it would be dnevitable. He said the drift towai'ds war had gone so far 'that all governments acted as if they had a mandate from their people to prepare to win the fiext War. In th'e name of security, German sciefttists were working iii Russia to, develop rockets capable of attaclciiig America, while other German scientists were working in America to develop rockets capable of attacking Russia. Mr. Wallaee believed the world needed two twenty-year plans, one fiesigned to elimina'te illiteracy and starvation by 196 6,. and the other to eliminate communicable disease and establish world living standards by 1986.