The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-18
WGLLGce-Trunlan Crisis Nearing ShOwdOwn To-day
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The letter advised MT. Truman
 tnat Wallace was ready to help
 formulate the program for such a
 mission and to suggest personnel , me time had come to change our
 thinking on international matters,
 Wallace told the President. He
 complained that the efforts to ob-
 tain bipartisan unity in foreign
 affairs in the United States may
 nave given way too much to isola- ton masquerading as tough realism
 In international affairs"
 Above all Wallace warmed that atomic warfare would be catastro- ph1c-and that the western powers in their dealings with Russia were heading the world for just that.
 Storm Rises in Tempo
 Publication of the letter nullified the anxious campaign year efforts ot MT. Truman and Democratic Na- Clo1al Chairman Robert E. Hanne- gan to calm the Cabinet storm The letter demonstrated that Wallace's dissent from MT. Truman's foreign policies, as formulated with the ad- vice of Secretary of State James F. Byrnes and Sen. Arthur Vanden- berg, (R.-Mich), began to take form months ago. Wallace recommended that the Administration break away from its bipartisan approach to foreign policy and "reassert the forward looking position of the Dem- ocratic Party in international af- fairs"
 Publication of that point of view Init the Paris Peace Conference with pile driver force. Byrnes, Vanden- berg and Chairman Tom Connally, O.-Tex), of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee may choose to interpret 1t in Paris as stab in the back.
 White House Secretary Charles G. Ross took full responsibility for pub- hcation of the Wallace letter. He learned two days ago that Drew Pearson had obtained it's text and would distribute it through his col umn. Under pressure from other newspaper7nen, also aware that the text was out, Ross and Wallace dis cusSed the matter late yesterday. Ross told Wallace he saw no reason why the text should not be made available generally since it would be published in any event.
 Wallace told his publicity office to let 1t go. Ross informed MT. Truman of his conversation with Wallace. The President instantly objected to publication but by the time Ross could reach Wallace, the Secretary of Commerce said distribution al ready had begun.
 Forrestal Cancels Speech
 Secretary of Navy James Forrestal was enroute to New York at that time to deliver a foreign policy ad- dress before the Navy Industrial As soctation. Its text also had been dis tr1buted to newSmen. A United Press correspondent read Forrestal's | speech and asked Navy public rela- tions officers if 1t had been cleared with the White House The Navy | shortly announced that the text had | been withdrawn and that Forrestal would not speak Soon afterward it | was announced that he would de- liver a speech but not the one pre- pared and distributed here.
 The Commerce Departments dis trIbrtion of Wallace's letter was pre- ceded by an explanation that it had been "filched" from official files and was in the possession of a news paper columniSt, unnamed. Pearson immediately announced that he had obtained the text honestly and would sue Wallace for libel unless the inn pfacation of theft were withdrawn.
 In such tragedy of errors there became available to the public the explanation why the only Roosevelt New Dealer remaining in the Cab met believes our foreign policy is heading us toward atomic war and great devastation.
 our actions and those of the western powers in general carry with them the ultimate danger of a third world war-this time an atomic world war" Wallace wrote to MT Truman. The letter was written in response to a midsummer invita- tion to some Cabinet members to express themselves on foreign policy MT. Truman sent Wallace's letter to | Byrnes for his information. It was III C0 sOdCh tO Illc WlllIe f1OuSe WILL in 24 hours.
 Objects to Many Projects
 Wallace contended that Russia was ignorant and isolationist and that we should take that greatly in- to consideration in establishing our policies. Specifically, he objected to the American program for con- trol of atomic energy, to our plans for distant military bases, especial ly in the Pacific, to our fostering of Latin American military develop ment and our opposition to the ex- tension of Russian influence in the Balkans and Middle East.
 Wallace put his greatest emphasis on the atomic bomb, warning that we must not put our trust in posses sion of great military force even though we alone have a bomb stock pile now.
 Tn a world of atomic bombs and other revolutionary new weapons, such as radioactive poison gases and biological warfare" he said, "a peace maintained by a predomin- ance of force is no longer possible"