Evening star., 1948-07-22
Taylor Won't DiscIaim
Third Party Backing
|By Pink Communists


By Pink Communists
BY the Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA, July 22.-Sen-
ator Taylor of Idaho said today that
pink" Communists may support the
new third party and he refuses to
renounce their backing.
The Idaho Senator, running for
Vice President on the Henry Wal
lace ticket, made this statement at
a news conference shortly after
Americans for Democratic Action
(ADA) had charged that Commu-
nists are using the new party as a
tool.
Arriving here for the party's first
convention opening officially tomor-
row, Senator Taylor told reporters
he doesn't think there are very
many Communists actively engaged
in the Wallace movement.
Il think the pink Communists
will support the new party" he said.
Change by Evolution.
Senator Taylor defined pink"
Communist as one who believes in
the democratic processes and a
change by evolution instead of revo-
luton.
He said red" Communists are
those who want to overthrow the
Government by force. But he said
it was impossible to prevent even
such Communists as the latter from
supporting the third party ticket
if they wish to vote for it.
But Senator Taylor predicted "the
red Communists will support Mr..
Dewey because the best way to get
a revolution is to have another
Hoover depression" He alluded to
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New
York, the Republican presidential
nominee.
Senator Taylor said he is mot
disturbed over possible Communist
inflltration into the newt party
because he does not believe they will
control its policies.
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Communism has been the main
subject of talk at this gathering
of the new party" followers. Mr..
Wallace and others have hit the
arrest of Communist leaders.
Even as Mr.. Wallace lashed out
at the indictment of u Commu-
nists by a Federal grand jury in
New York, the ADA said through
James Loeb, jr., its executive sec
retary, that:
Mr.. Wallace's candidacy (for
President) does not obscure the fact
that the Communists and their COL
laborators guide the main policies
and word the major pronounce
ments of this New Party"
There was some doubt that this
frontal attack, prepared for de-
livery before the committee which
is drafting a platform for the Wal
lace convention meeting here to-
morrow, would ever be delivered
formally.
But that didn't stop Mr.. Loeb
from putting out his testimony in
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Called Dangerous Adventure.
Asserting the ADA had criticized
American policy with clean hands,"
Mr.. Loeb said Mr. Wallace's entry
into the presidential race was only
"a dangerous adventure undertaken
by cynical men in whose hands
Henry A. Wallace placed his politi-
cal fortune"
The presence of Mr.. Wallace
does not alter the fact that the real
authority in your party is vested in
the hands of men and women many
of whom followed the dictates of
totalitarianism in the period of the
Nazi-Soviet pact" Mr.. Loeb de-
clared.
1T is our conviction" he added,
that were the Communists to with
dray from your organization today.
your organization would soon Join
that long list of discarded groups
which testify eloquently to the in
evitable failure of the so-called
united front'-which always be-
comes Increasingly united and, in
creasingly 'front.'"
Publicity agents for the ADA,
which lists former Price Admin
istrator Leon Henderson as its
chairman, said Mr.. Loeb had been
invited by telegram to testify before
the Platform Committee.
Appearance Up to Tugwell.
1t was up to Rexford Guy Tug
we'll, once one of Franklin D. Roose-
velt's brain trust, and the Platform
Committee he heads whether Mr..
Loeb would be allowed to testify.
Mr.. Wallace, due here tomorrow to
take over personal leadership of his
New Party, criticized the indictment
of Communist leaders in New York.
He said it is interesting and
highly significant that these Red
scareS over the last two years have
been timed to silence opposition to
new turns in the biparty, get-tough !
foreign policy"
He said he thinks the indictments
are another in a series of diversions
created for Americans who are COM
planning about mounting imitation,
the stupid bungling in Berlin and
other problems"
Both the administration and BIZ
partisans in Congress make allega-
tions to make headlines, make head
lines to make fear and make fear
to stay in power" he declared in a
statement phoned from New York to
party headquarters here.
Viewed on Frame-Up.
The Communist Party said the in
dictments were part of "frame-up"
to embarrass Wallace's New Party.
The theme song of the New Party
likely to be formally named either
the Progressive" or the People"
Party-cropped out in its yet un-
completed platform.
Mr.. Tugwell told reporters the
platform will say that Capitalist
America and Communist Russia can
and must live togethed in the same