The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-20
As Pegler Sees 1t
By WEsTBROOK PEGLER
(Copyrigh, BY King Features Syndicate. In

(Copyrigh, By King Features Syndicate, mc.'
NEW YORK,-Too many of our intelligent
citizens are repeating their old mistake OF I'M
der-estimating Henry Wallace as an amlaole,
confused and harmless political slob whose
bang of hair and general appearance OF hav-
ing spent the night in a culvert somehow as
sure them that he is incapable OF the ferocltles
of the CORY dictatorship in Russia ofwhich he
is, in our country, the principle defender,
warning might be found, however, in the ex-
amples of Adolph Hitler and Huey Long, the
one with his rumpled rain-coat, the other in
his slept in seersucker and both with tn eflop-
ping fo1elock who seemed goofy until their
position swer established, whereupon they
dropped the pose of oafishness and got down
to bloody business.
Contempt and ridicule are appropriate wea-
pons with which to destroy some political
freaks but Wallace has been dragged through
these preliminary attacks by his Stalinist fol-
lowing in and out of the CLIO. He stands
as an advocate OF the extension
of the Stain empire with communists ranged
behind and around him on his platform, chant
ing damnation of all the rights that distin-
guish American citizenship from Rus
sian nnonenity and our fascist" republic.
Long ago, Wallace expressed contempt for
the Bill of Rights Democracy of the United
States and a yearning for the social, economic
dlld SOAAd1 IllO Y VI ItuSSId. LINZ
the late Ray Clapper, who made a hero of
him, he doesn't define, much less defend in
detail the propositions that he advocates in
these vague terms because, like C1apper, he
realize that they cannot stand up in thought
full debate except in the judgment of those
who rather yearn for the disciplined order of
dictator ship.
The bang, the baggy knees, the moist and
drooling lips and the air of earnest stupidity
arc M rnnrn nvidopro Nf n yy,rVo L1a~& -, -
politician than a polished appearance and an
alert expression. On the contrary, in Wallace's
case they introduce a man who speaks kindly
OF a regime which his own Roosevelt, in a
moment OF unwary honesty, condemned as a
parallel of Hitlerism. under a butcher no less
satanic than Hitler himself. He commends a
system OF drones and seres, rulers and the
ruled. under which millions have died for poll
teal error, including the heretical belief in
private property, and today millions of slaves
are vanished from Europe. BY sexual demo-
cracy, he seems to mean a system in which
the women are rescued from the slavery of
the civilized home and chained to jobs at ply
steal LABOR under state control.
Wallace, in his latest and most ominous
demonstration at Madison Square Garden. in
the company of eminent advocates OF the Sta
I'm empire, proposed a division of the world
into three zones of influence, Russian, Chinese
oLiO ]Al1lSIlSdH, Will Tile oTlClSn elecLeO To a
junior partnership in the American empire.
He resented the exercise by the United States
OF any inerest in Stalin's empire but neither
IN this address, under the appropriate aus
pieces OF the Citizens Political Action Commit.
tee, nor in any past utterance, has Wallace
objecte DIT 9th interference in the domestic
affairs OF the United States OF the VERY Sta.
INSISTS who constitute most Of his own col.
lowing. That interference has caused strikes
IN American industry, under general instruct
ions from Moscow, which have brought the
nation dangerously close to restitution and
revolution. 1t contrived the penetration of
Stallnlsts into the American State Depart
ment and the Departments of Agriculture
and under his own administrations
and the selection of other traitors for
commissions in the armed servicesin the war
1t was admitted in 1884 when Roosevelt
gave Russia diplomatic recognition in
a treaty by which Stain EXPLICITLY
agreed to desist, a promise which, as Wallace
knows, was honored only in the breach.
1t is too late to wonder how Wallace. with
his own personal record, could have risen to
his present position among a people who have
always maintained a high degree Of national
lstlc patriotism and who pilloried Jack Denim.
sey because he didn't put on a uniform. even
the tawdry regimentals of a boxing instructor
IN the trst great war. He has done il and
that is a fact.
Ihe American Veterans Committee invited
to speak at it's convention in Des Moines
he very city In which, 20 years ago. at the
age OF 20, being the son of a rich father
ne sat out the war in the guise of a highly
specialized expert Of a necessary industrial
enterprise to wit a commercial farm nubli-
cation, owned by his family. In the second
war, having lost the vice-presidential nomi-
nation to Harry Truman, he became mem
ployed on Inauguration Day but didn'. even
take a job in a war plant, although Paul
McNutt was beating the soda-fountains and
snoe-snlne p arlors for manpower. Ever
tnoughtful OF the common man who did the
1lght1ng or left home to build ships and con.
tribute thu ough his union to the Roosevelt
campaign fund, Wallace held himself above
the common mans obligations, however. and
sat out the interim until Roosevelt fired Jesse
Jones, who had squared Elliott's alimonv
debt and gave the job to Henry.
Even his nomination to the vice-presidencv
tne only elective office he ever held. was .
gl1t from his patron, Roosevelt. which inc;.
oentaly, brought h e sweaty humanitarians
up roaring their contempt in Chicago in 1e4o
Mrs. FRANCES Perkins writes in her menooirs
tlat hooseVelt, not the convention. picked
henry, and IN an off-handed way on the tele.
phone. "e 'ee
Yes" she tells us, Roosevelt. said .;t,s
Waliace. guess. Yes, it will be Wallace.
think I'll stick to that"