Evening star., 1947-06-16

| CFAQSlSC t4ids tAAS 81a1It4A8 ~ eA1S
permit was surrounded by any trust
of actual or imminent danger or
injury.
Mr.. Maher said that before the
Anti Communist Association should
be granted restraining order
against the meeting 1t should be re-
quired to show specifically wherein
such a meeting was threat to the
Government or wherein 1t would
violate the legal provisions pertain
ing to issuance of injunctions on
specific charges.
Court Authority Challenged.
! The main ground taken by Mr..
Maher, however, was that the court
had no judicial authority to inter-
fere with the issuance of permit
by an executive agency of the Gov
ernment so long as there was no
positive proof that the executive
agency abused its discretion.
In reply Mr.. Miles asserted that
the public interest was essentially
involved and that the court, there
fore, should grant a temporary
restraining order until all the issues
could be argued and determined.
THE issue is simply the use of
Government property by persons
or organizations aimed at the over
throw of the Government" Mr..
Miles said. This property would
be used by Communist sympathizers
at time when the United States
is giving 100000 to check Com
munistic expansion in Greece and
Turkey.
THE inconsistency Is obvious. It
will give irreparable damage. 1t
would allow one Henry Agard Wal
lace to state views which hitherto
have caused damage"
Hearing Is Brief.
The hearing lasted less than 20
minutes. Several other attorneys.
including legal representatives OF
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People,
were in court.
Wendell Mcconnell, an attorney
for the District branch of that or
ganization, offered to make state
ment as "a friend of the court. "
Justice Proctor, however, said he did
not feel 1t necessary to hear further
arguments.
Mr.. Wallace said at a press con-
ference here yesterday that he pro-
posed to have more to say tonight
on how to achieve an enduring
peace" and what he intends to do
in the next presidential election.
The former Vice President de-
clared the United States and Great
Britain would fight Russia If the
Soviet Union attempted to move
southwark into Turkey.
He said he had no evidence of
any Soviet plan to expand In that
direction. The crux of that situa-
ton, he explained, in Saudi Arabian
oil. He declared Russia should be
told there is a point beyond which
she should not 60 in the direction
of Turkey without awakening re-
sistance."
I'm confident" he added, that
our Navy would fight If Russia got
into Turkey, because our Navy is
determined to get Saudi Arabian
oil. But that oil should be made
available to all nations"
At the press conference in the Ma
tional Press Club Auditorium, Mr..
Wallace first used the word Should"
but said later he meant the United
States and Britain would" fight
Russia under such circumstances.
This should be made clear to the
Soviets, he said.
Denies Communist Line.
Mr.. Foreman denied at Mr.. Wal
lace's news conference that the Or
ganization followed the Communist
line or was isolationist before Rus
sia was invaded by Germany in
1941. ........
Mr.. Wallace, asked for the dif-
erence between his views and those
of Communists on United States
foreign policy. said he never had
read the Daily Worker and did not
know what the Communist posi-
ton Is.
THE only Communists who have
ever sat down and talked with me
and there have been only three
definitely do make a distinction, "
he said.
AS the injunction proceedings got
under way. another organization-I
the Americans for Democratic
Action-came to the defense of Mr..
Wallace's efforts to speak at the
Water Gate tonight.
Opposes Wallace Views.
In a telegram to Mr.. O'Konski,
Leon Henderson, executive secre-
tary Of the ADA, stated his group
opposes Mr.. Wallace's foreign policy
statements but just as strongly
opposes the attempt of the Anti
Communist Association to prevent
the former Vice President from
speaking at the Federally- owned
Water Gate.
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Mark
Ethridge, Wilson w. Wyatt, Paul A
Porter, Elmer Davis, and Episcopal
Bishop William Scarlet of st. Louis,
are members of the ADA, Mr.. Hen
derson stated.
Besides his talk tonight, Mr.. Wal
lace will have an opportunity to
speak a. O'Clock this afternoon.
He is scheduled to address meeting
of the National Youth Lobby at
Mount Joy Baptist tChurch, 514
Fourth street S.E.
At yesterdays news conference
Mr. Wallace declared he still hopes
to make the Democratic party lib
eral." Commenting on a statement
by Republican Chairman Reece that
Mr.. Wallace will support President
Truman in 1948 to make the issue
between the two parties ''unmistak-
ably clear" Mr. Wallace declared it