Evening star., 1948-07-25
By the As.eeiatsd Press

by the Asseeia.sd Press
PHILADELPHIA, July "a
Following Is the text of Henry
A. Wallace's speech tonight ac-
cepting the Progressive Party
presidential nomination:
-Four years and four days ago, al
Vice President OF the United States
and head Of the Iowa delegation te
the Democratic Convention, I rose
70 second the nomination of Frank
lin Roosevelt, and said:
THE future belongs to those who
20 down the line unswervingly 70,
The liberal principles Of both politl.
cal democracy and economic demcc.
,acy regardless of race, color, or re.
igion. Roosevelt can and will
lead the United States, in co-opera-
ton with the rest of the world
toward that type Of peace which will
prevent world war g."
That was four years ago. Do you
remember that summer of casualty
lists, and the wreckage still smolder-
ing on the beaches Of Normandyp A
time Of dying, and destruction -
and yet, something more.
For in that time, you remember
every one of US held dream. AT
the lathe, in the fields in early morn
ing, at the kitchen window, sweat
ing out a barrage in the line, every
one Of us dreamed Of time when
the sound Of peace would come back
to the land. and there would be no
more fear. and men would begin to
build again.
Roosevelt's Vision of Peace.
And in that dark time, you re-
member, Franklin Roosevelt looked
beyond the horizon and gave us a
vision OF peace, an economic bill Of
rights; the right to work. for every
man willing. The right of every
family to a decent home. The right
to protection from the fears of old
age and sickness. The right to a
good education. All the rights which
spell security for every man, woman
and child, from the cradle to the
grave.
It was the dream that all of us
had, and Roosevelt put it into words,
and we loved him for it.
Two years later the war was over,
and Franklin Roosevelt was dead.
And what followed was the great
betrayal.
Instead of the dream, we have
inherited disillusion.
Instead of the promised years of
harvest, the years OF the locust are
upon us.
In Hyde Park they buried our
President-and in Washington they
buried our dreams.
One day after Roosevelt died,
Harry Truman entered the White
House
And 46 days later, Herbert Hoo.
yer was there.
1t was a time Of comings and
goinss.
Into the Government came the
ghosts of the great depression, the
banking house boys and the oil
well diplomats.
In Marched the Generals.
In marched the generals-and out
went the men who had built the
IVA and the Grand Coulee, the men
who had planned social security
and built Federal housing, the men
who had dug the farmer out Of the
dust bowl, and the workman out of
the sweatshop.
A time of coming and goings X
the shadows of the past coming in
fast-and the lights going out slow
ly-the exodus of the torchbearers
of the New Deal
I was still in the cabinet-hoping
that we might yet return. some
how, to the course Franklin Roose-
velt had cfarted for the Nation in
peace. And in that great hope. two
years ago this month, wrote to the
President.
I warned him that we had fallen
upon cynical counsel. that the bank
ers and the brokers and the big
brass had launched us upon a
dangerous policy-the get tough
policy
said then that "our postwar ac-
tions have not yet been adjusted
to the lessons gained from expert
ence OF Allied Cooperation during
the war and the facts of the atomic
ege."
Warned Against Tough Policy.
said khat it would be fruitleSs
to seek solutions for specific prob
lens without establishing an at
mosphere of mutual trust and con-
fidence-and l warned that our get
tough policy would only produce a
get tougher" policy. That warning
was before the crises in Greece, in
Italy, in Palestine, in Czechoslo-
vakia. That warning was two years
aeo-two years before Berlin.
You have read your papers. In
the two years since the people who
planned for living we're eased out
OF Washington. and the ghosts who
plan for destruction were invited IN
in those two short years during
which the Department of State has
been subtly annexed to- the Penta-
gon, and the hand of military has
come to guide the pen of the dip
lomat-we have ricocheted from
crisis to crisis.
The get tough policy" has
spawned its inevitable breed-the
get tougher policy"
And what harvest do we have of
all our hoping, what fruits of the
hard-won victory? Not peace-but
the sword; not an economic bill of
rights-but a mounting bill Of
wrongs.
One World Frozen in Fear.
Not life-but tens of thousands of
deaths, on unnecessary battlefields
In Greece--in Palestine-in China.
One world, yes-frozen in one fear
The worlds eyes today focus upon
the burning spot Of the cold war
Berlin.
Berlin need not have happened
Berlin did not happen. Berlin was
caused.
When we were set on the road of
the get tough" policy. I warned
that its end was inevitable. Berlin
is becoming that end.
There Is no reason Whv the peace