Evening star., 1942-11-09
Mediterranean Drive
Hailed by Wallace
AT Rally for Soviet
Shortest Supply Route
To Russiu, !, Side Door
To Reich Forecast

Of the Mediterranean will open the
'side door" to Germany and afford
"the shortest possible supply route to
Southern Russia" Vice President
Wallace told 10000 cheering listeners
in Madison Square Garden rally
of the American-Soviet Friendship
Congress yesterday.
Departing from his prepared text
to hail the North African landings
at the second front. Mr.. Wallace
asserted I'VE have now reached q
time when victory can be taken
from us only by misunderstanding
and quarreling among ourselves" ,.
Mr.. Wallace preceded Maxim Lit
vinof, Soviet Ambassador, who cited
the initial failure of other Allies
to recognize the Soviet's influence
for peace as Undoubtedly one o1
the causes of the present war;" add
ing:
Friendship between the U. S. S
r. and the U. S. A. based on com.
plete mutual understanding, con.
fldence and respect, should occupy
a conspicuous place in the system
OF United Nations cooperation"
Democracy of Common Man.
Earlier, Mr. Wallace said Amer.
leans and Russians alike are deeply
interested in fashioning a new
democracy of the common man
for the postwar world.
This new democracy will be
neither Communism of the old.
fashioned internationalist type no.
democracy of the old-fashioned iso.
lationist Sort" the Vice President
predicted.
Instead, he said, it should be a
blend of political or Bill of Rights
democracy" economic democracy
ethnic democracy, educational de-
mocracy and democracy in the
treatment of the sexes.
An international IVA" and an
international bank must be organ
lied, he added.
The first article in the interna-
tional law of the future is undoubt-
edly the United Nations charter. "
Mr.. Wallace said, explaining that
document included the Atlantic
Charter originally agreed on by
President Roosevelt and Prime Min
lister Churchill and now signed on
| behalf of 30 nations.
AS "a starter" for postwar pub
lie works program, the Vice Presi-
dent suggested "a combined high
way and airway from Southern
South America across the United
States, Canada and Alaska, into
Siberia and ON to Europe with feedet
highways and airways from China
India and the Middle East"
He said he broached that project
to Vyacheslav Molotov, the Soviet
foreign commisar, when the Russian
visited the United States last spring
Mr.. Wallace recalled that Molotov's
first reaction was mo one nation
can do that by ITSELF" but later he
said. You and I will live to see the
day."
Declaring that the various kinds
OF democracy must be woven to-
gether into a harmonious whole, ;
Mr.. Wallace declared:
Some in the United States be.
lieve that we have overemphasizeo
what might be called political OF
Bill OF Rights democracy. Carried
to its extreme form, it leads tx
rugged individualism, exploitation
impractical emphasis on States
rights and even to anarchy.
Russia. perceiving some of tn,
abuses of excessive political democ
racy, has placed strong emphasi
on economic democracy. This, car.
ried to an extreme, demands that al
power be centered in one man ane
his bureaucratic helpers.
Practical Balance.
somewhere there is q practica
balance between economic ant
political democracy. Russia and tn,
United States both have been work
ing toward this practical middl,
ground"
Mr.. Wallace said the postwa
world also must recognize ethnl
democracy, which means merel,
that the different races and mi
nority groups might be given equal
ity OF economic opportunity"
Likewise, he declared, there mus
be a democracy of opportunity t.
get an education.
With regard to the fifth de
mocracy, the treatment of the sexe.
/ af iy, T1oi -
have felt complacent," he continued
1T has taken the war experienc
of Russia to demonstrate the com
pleteness of our failure.
THE Russian revolution CAV
equality of economic opportunity t
women.
Those who have visited Russi
recently say that about 40 per cen
of the work in the factories is bein
done by women. The average wom
an does about as much work as tn
average man and is paid as much"
Message From Roosevelt.
Before the war Is over, the Vic
President said, I'VE may be force
to give women their opportunity t
demonstrate that with proper train
ing they are equal to man in mos
kinds of work"
President Roosevelt sent a mes
sage to the meeting declaring ths
it met lat a time when for the sec
ond year the heroic resistance of tn
Soviet armed forces and people I
the brutal invasion of their countr
by Nazi Germany has evoked tn
unqualified admiration and sym
pathy for our people,
A message from 1t. Gen. Dwigf
D. Eisenhower, commander in chi.
of Allied forces in French Mort
Africa, also was read 1t salute
the gallant Soviet army" and sal
'Sthe magnificent defense of Sovi'
territory is an inspiration for all {
U.S."
Current developments in Russi
and in other theaters Of war poir
Enthusiastically to the ultimate an
decisive triumph over the forces ,
evil and oppression" he added.
Admiral Noble Heads
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