The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-11-26
Reds, Wha, Hae--
Washington Post)

 MT Henry Wallace will have nobody to blame but himself if as the result of his speeches in New York, he has established himself in the minds of his country men as the foremost American fellow traveller of Russian communism. In address given in Spanish before audience which appears to have been com prised largely of Puerto Rcans he asserted that of all the 435 members of Congress the one who holds the best voting record" is other than Representative Marcantonio Now the significance of this statement is best understood by reference to the record itself MT Marcantonio in his speeches and votes has fol- lowed every twist and turn in the Communist Party line as faithfully as the editorial page of the New York Daily Worker.
 Until the eve of the German. attack on Russia in September 1e4l for example, we find MT Marcantonio fighting with all his vigor and rhetoric against the great conspiracy of Wall Street and the Roosevelt Administration to force into imperialist war on the pretext of saving democracy. Thus we find him opposing all increases in military and naval appro- priation, lend lease and compulsory military service Three months after Htlers invasion of Russia "nd a full two months before Pearl Harbor we find him admitting quite frankly to his colleagues of the House of Representatives that he supporting MT Roose- velts foreign policy for the reason that formerly impeed him to attack it. He explained that
 believed then, in 1889 and 1940 up
 to the 22d day Of June 1941, it war
 between two axes, the Wall Street-Downlng
 Street axis and the Rome -Tokyo-Berln axis
 contending for empire and for the exploitation
 of more and more people However, main-
 tain that . the invasion of the Soviet Union
 by Hitler transformed that war, which was pre-
 dominantly imperialstic, into war which
 is now essentially of national defense
 Futher, the people throughout the world
 and particularly in the United States have be-
 come since June 22 1941, more and more in-
 yolved in a war of defense and thus guarantee
 q democratic peace after the defeat Of Hitler ism
 This of course is the eXqustely simple logic which the Communists and their fellow travellers able to apply to every situation Whatever, at the moment, happens to accord with the political interest or policy of Moscow is pso facto democratic" progressive and what not Whatever may conflict with Russian policy is by the same fact imperalst, fascistic and so on How thoroughly by MT Wallace has ac- uuired the logic and lingo may be discovered from his speech at the rally of the National Citizens Political Action Committee.
 As soon as the election is over am going to do my best to see that the Democratic Party
 comes out with a genuine democratic foreign [ policy.
 MT Wallace went on to explain what he understands by "a democratic foreign policy"
 We need a democratic anti-imperialist under
 standing with Russian foreign policy Until we
 have it. there is assurance of peace. There
 are some businessmen so greedy that they want to profit from a huge armament program to
 back up the get-tough-with Russia policy. The words indeed, might have been taken almost bodily from one of MT. Marcantono's speeches before June 22, 194l