The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-25
As Pegler Sees 1t
Bv WESTBROOK PEGLER
Copyright By King Features Syndicate, inc

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war has rot been clearly developed.
Noting Lady Nancy Astor's denial that an
actual "Cliveden set ever existed, we may
consider, nevertheless, the group and the Poli'
teal movement which had for their purpose
the prevention OF war by appeasement OF MT
Ter. They were sympathetic with Hitler IN all
his reasonable aspirations for the German ma
ton and were accused of approving an MS
other designs and all his methods, including
his prosecutions of Jews. Americans whose
only motive was to save this nation from IN
Movement in the war by strict neutrality were
accused OF delighting in the early terocltles OF
the brown shirts, and thus, OF brutal anu
Semitism, merely because they refused to ao-
init that the American people had any obllga'
ton to stop them and punish Hitler.
The Nazi bund in the United States, under
Fritz Kuhn, inevitably moved in as Won KID
bentrop and other Nazis in London likewise
exploited the peaceful intentions OF
those friends of Lady Astor for Hitler's pur-
poses. If the Cliveden set and the America
first group ever did have any chance OF pre-
serving peace they were frustrated by this m
trusion of Nazis whose only motive, obviously,
was to obtain all his detectives by intimida-
ton. William Allen White and other leaders OF
America First sorroWfully gave up.
Now, in an almost identical situation. Wal
lace would ''understand' and justify identical
atrocities by Josef Stain, also in the cause OF
peace. His impudent assumption OF peace"
as his sole political property and the brutal
implication that all who are unwilling to ap-
pease Stain want war with Russia seriously
impugn bis sincerity.
1t is further impugned by his selection Of a
partisan political rally in New York, dominat-
ed bv fclthright and covert Stalinists, as the
time and place for the declaration that caused
the uproar. This was a Beat Dewey meet
ing arranged by partisans of the democratic
state ticket and this fact must be thrown onto
the screen beside his pietistical statement on
leaving the Cabinet that winning the peace
is more important than any consideration OF
party politics." On the record thus far devel-
oped. he raised this issue, started his own
Cliveden movement in the United States and
shook the world Cor the primary purpose OF
beating Dewey in a state election completely
detached from world issues. His secondary
purpose plainly was to steal peace" as his
own political property, jumping the claims OF
more honest men and knocking the devout
peacefu.ness Of millions Of Americans whose
hopes and fears are personal and spiritual,
not political.
It would be a great mistake to believe that
Wallace is altruistic and a pure idealist as
his press claque Of misanthropic interpreters
constantly tell US he is. He is ambitious to be
President o. the United States and hopeful OF
an obedient Congress which would give MN
the same 'aggregate war powers that Roose-
welt wangled for himself. The full extent OF
those powers would make Wallace a dictator
limited ONLY by his conscience which thus far
has not move ed him to reject the Stain terror
but rather condones it on the ground that
such slauehters and historic mass prosecutions
are inevitable" in a revolution wrought by
some Oriental college of gods. A man SO toler-
ant Of horrors in Europe as unavoidable trl'
~vialities in human progress might see tne
same excuse tor the same process here and
might get away with much under those "ag-
g%regate" powers.
Rejecting the mistaken concept Of Wallace
as a drooling CAT to whom the terms crack
not and 'stary eyed dreamer" are assets
rather than liabilities. the prudent American
will regard him instead as a shreWd, amol-
tious and potentially ruthless explolter OF the
peoples fear of war. Woodrow Wilson and
Franklin D. Roosevelt were elected on prom
ises to keep the country out of war and Wal
lace is smart enough to understand that If he
should 90 to the people as the only one prom
Using them peace, without is and ands, he
might sweep the election in 1946. The other
candidates., being more honest, probably would
talk facts ard weigh the possibilities OF war
as they actually exist in the constant agrees
sions Of Stains new empire. To admit that
war is even a remote possibility is a fatal
error TO an American campaigning for the
PRESIDENCY.
Wallace's C1iveden set is infested with ad-
vocates Of the new Soviet empire, under Sta
lin, to a much greater extent than Lady AS
tors group and America First were corrupted
by Nazis. In the beat Dewey rally he was
surrounded by some American Quislings who
would repeat here the process o. the Polish
Lublin committee and the Finnish govern
ment in exile traitorols groups which sold
out their countries to Stain.
The time is too early now but it is not fan
tastic to think of a day when some group of
American Stalinists in the Wallace adherence
shall set up headquarters in Moscow and be
recognized by Stain as the exiled "people's'
government of the United States.
Wallaces Cliveden set argue that it is no
business of ours, worth war, what Stain does
to the millions of wretches who have fallen
into his power in conquered countries. These
traitors, who sorroWed and ragged over perse-
cutions unde. Hitler, are CHEEKY about perse-
cutlons as bad or worse by Stain Of millions
Of captive human beings.
The honest question FOR Americans is
whether We should make a war to stop these
things. But Wallace and his Cliveden set dis
credit their own professed motive. Their propa-
ganda shows that their motive is not to save
the world from war, not to preserve the United
States but to deter the United States from op-
posing the extension of the new Russian EN-.