The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-09-17

press is using every oeVlce Oh
yellow journalism" to portray
the Wallace movement as a
communist plot.
A roundup of press reports appear
ing in major newspapers shows that
accuracy and consistency were tossed
to the winds in reporting the Progress
sive Party convention. Not only dc
the newspapers contradict each other
but not infrequently the same paper
is also found TO contradict itself. Only
the cry of communism is common to
all. but even here the evidence ranges
from the absurd to the ridiculous.
Thus, the St Louis Post-Dispatch
July 25) suggested that perhaps
William 2. Foster was playing left
field for Wallace at Shibe Park and
added that 'this could not be verified
from the remote press box while the
Newark Evening News July 23)
noted several pairs of ankles (male)
clad in red sox" and lone pair of fe-
male feet in red Shoes" The
Portland Press Herald. a Gannett pa
per, further bolstered the communist
charge July 23) by declaring, ''The
rules committee even met in the Pink
Room today at convention headquart-
ers at the Bellevue Stratford Hotel"
One of the most vicious and indie
cent news stories was that written
by Rebecca West. an English novelist
who falsely described the young peo-
pie at the Wallace convention as
very horrible" the boys having "the |
sullen eyes and the dropped chins
which means a brain just good enough |
to grasp the complexities of life and /
to realize that it would never be able /
10 master them" (N.Y Herald Trib-
Inc. July 26).
A British PhrenoIogist
was Communist" declared Rebecca
Vest in one breath. but in the same
irticle, without the slightest attempt i
It consistency, she says it provides
the foundations of an American fas-
list movement" It is perhaps worth
f.
Vest deals with the career of John
Amery, a British radio commentator,
md seeks to glamorize the services he
-endered Hitler and Goebbels by /
from Germany during
he war. (Amery was hanged for .
reason by the British)
The New York Times, which once
)oasted reputation for accurate re-
porting, ran a column by Anne O'Hare
Mccormick July 26) describing the
Wallace program as "simon-pure iso-
ationism" even though Wallace
dressed the Importance of return
o the original principles of the
United Nations developed by the late
PRESIDENT Roosevelt This column
oes on to make the absurdly false
barge that the new party supports
to the last detail the policy of the
oviet government" and asserts that
the Wallace address fell flat" in
even though an UMPIRE
edented crowd of $4,000 people paid
omission to Shibe park to hear Wal
aces acceptance speech. which they
rarmly applaudede
No Consistency Necessary
The New York Sun July 26) car
led column by George E. Sokolosky, :
ack writer for the NAM, saying that
the Wallace party has declared itself
Socialist party" but, right below
lis, a column by David Lawrence
ssured the readers that Wallace's
latform is ''a big disappointment" be-
ause most every one was expecting
really radical /. approx
ating the new socialism Of Europe" u
yhile Sokolosky attacks from the in
light, Lawrence snipes from the if
5eudo-Left, asserting that Wallace's
rogram doesn't hit hard enough at r
le weaknesses of the capitalistic c,
,tup." la
The Hearst press sent Westbrook n
egler and a corps of aides to the al
aggressive Party convention in order in
make political capital out of the is
usty, moth-eaten Guru letters These CT
lonymOus letters which were ped m
ed around as far back as the 1910
7ctions were then dismissed by ri