Detroit evening times., 1945-02-05
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By NJ. S. RUKEYSER

TT WOULD be misreading Of the authentic sig
nifcance of the Wallace affair to regard it as
mere incident reflecting senatorial taste as to
human personalities
Much more was at stake in President Roose-
velt's maneuver in firing the competent Jesse H.
Jones in order to pay political debt to Henry
Agard Wallace
The episode was test as to whether the CLOS
Political Action Committee had taken over control
Of the federal government as a result of the
November elections
For Mr. Wallace made it perfectly clear in his
extensive testimony before the Senate commerce
committee that he fully accepted the Political
Action Committees line for making over America
SIDNEY HILI4MAN, chairman of the Political
- Action Committee in an article in November
Readers Digest, clarified what his left-Wing group
was seeking, namely, radical change in the COM
pexion of Congress, which remained the
branch OF the federal government that refused to
surrender principle in order to appeaSe his group.
"The congressional elections of November,
1872 Mr.. Hillman asserted chad given evidence
OF powerful reactOnary trend which, if continued
through 1914, threatened to reverse all the prog
ress of recent years and to render this nation
incapable of making its indispensable contribution
"In 1912, it was clear that coalition of
obstructOnist Republicans and reactiOnary DEM
Ocrats had gained control of Congress and was
determined not merely to block any further pro-
gressive legislation but to undermine where pos
sble the whole structure of peace and prosperity.
nISCOUNTING Mr. Hillman's prejudiced char
~ acterlzatlonS. we can perceive that he wanted
to purge independent congressman and bring into
office rubberstamp Congress which would follow
the CIO line
Any informed American can see through Mr..
Hillmans propaganda and recognize his loose and
subtly dangerous misuse Of language. For the
policies he dubbed reactonary trebled the output
per United States industrial worker in half cen
tury, and created the highest standard of living
that the world has ever known.
The tricky Mr. Hillman calls any one who will
be his puppet liberal, and any one who wants in
an independent spirit to audit his program
reactionary.
Let's look at the scoreboard and find whether
Mr.. Hillman has put over his campaign.
In the first place, the Political Action Com
mittee failed to get their handyman, Henry Wal
lace renominated for the vice presidency
Secondly, at the very first session of the new
Congress, the national legislature thumbed its
nose at the Hillman-Browder wing of the New
Deal by voting to perpetuate the Dies Committee
on Un-American Activities
Thirdly, IN his selection Of new executives for
the state department, President Roosevelt ignored
Sidney and apparently followed Harry L. Hopkins
and the palace guard in his appointments, although
Vie appointment Oh AfcnlDald MacLelSh as an
assistant secretary may have been intended as a
sop to the Political Action Committee Communist
coalition.
A CCORDINGLY, a.turndown on Wallace as Sec
"A retary of commerce and administrator of the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation and affiliates
would be resoundng further slap at Mr.. Hill
mans bloc and what 1t stands for 1t would be
further evidence that coalition of Republicans
and Jeffersonian Democrats is still in the saddle
in Congress.
Although the reelection Of Mr.. Roosevelt was
unquestionaby aided by the zeal of the Political
Action Committee and the Communists, there
appears to be congressional resistance to an at
tempt on the part Of the New Deal to share the
spos Of victory with its extremist supporters.
But the eft-wngers are persistent and re-
sourceful and the American way of life will not
be secure unless its supporters remain eternaly
vigilant.