Evening star., 1946-09-20

say the Secretary of State had been
following with regard to Russia. Mr.
Wallace also called for frank recog-
milton of spheres of influence
principle which Mr.. Byrnes has
bluntly opposed.
Mr. Wallace followed up this
speech by making public on Tues
day over the Presidents disapproval
a letter he had written to the Presi-
dent in July bespeaking a closer
relationship with Russia even If it
cast this country in the role Of
appeaser.
Teletype Exchange.
It was after that letter had been
made public that Mr.. Wallace held
a long conference with the President
and then announced he would make
no more speeches and statements
until after the Paris Conference, but
that he hoped to be able to swing
into action again by the middle of
October and take part in the last
three weeks of the congressional
campaign.
Republicans had charged that the
President. in approving Mr. Wal
lace's right to talk, was attempting
to avoid alternating the Commerce
Secretary's liberal political fol-
lowing.
Tour Was to Start Tuesday.
The Democrats had arranged a
15-State speaking tour for Mr.. Wal
lace, which was to start in Provi-
dence, r. l., Tuesday night and this
was cancelled when he submitted to
the gag" in Wednesdays talk with
the President.
That Mr.. Truman did not take
the Democratic National Committee
into his confidence in removing Mr..
Wallace was indicated when Rep
resentative Sparkman. Democrat, of
Alabama, chairman of the COM
mittee's Speakers Bureau, told the
White House reporters that the
Presidents statement was "a COM
plete surprise" to him.
Mr.. Sparkman said, however. that
he thought under the circumstances
at was the best thing"
The removal of Mr.. Wallace par
allels the circumstances under which
Secretary of Interior IckeS, another
Roosevelt holdover, went out in Feb
ruary when he broke with the Presi-
dent over the nomination of Edwin
w. Pauley to be Undersecretary of
the Navy.
Secretary of the Navy Forrestal
Is now the sole survivor of the cab
met Mr.. Truman inherited from
Mr.. Roosevelt.
Political Career Marked by Storms.
Mr.. Wallace's public career has
been punctuated by one political
storm after another.
The tousle-haired Iowan had hard
ly settled into the late President
Roosevelt's flrst-term cabinet before
the country was seething with ar
gument over his policies as Secretary
of Agriculture.
When the Supreme Court said
some of them wouldn't do, Mr.. Wal
lace said some harsh things about
the court. The seeds OF that dis
sension grew up into the great court
battle of 1887, climaxed when Con-
gress rejected Mr.. Roosevelt's plan
to~revamp the court.
Scars were left on the Democratic
party when Mr.. Wallace got the
nomination for Vice President In
1910 amid boos and Kisses in the
Chicago convention.
President Roosevelt said in effect
that he wouldn't run for a third term
unless he could have Mr.. Wallace
for running mate. The grumbling
convention complied but some dele
gates called it "ramming Wallace
down our throats."
In Controversy With Jones.
Mr.. Wallace was a principal ir
. op-f1ight Washington row of the
war years. He and Jesse Jones
then Secretary of Commerce anc
chairman of the Reconstruction
F1nSnce Corp, slugged 1t out in Q
barrage of news statements.
Mr.. Wallace was head of th<
Board of Economic Warfare which
bought abroad raw materials thil
country needed, or wanted to b,