Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-11-20
EDITORIAL PAGE

and women such as A. Philiy
Randolph of the Sleeping Car
Porters, Willard Townsend of
the Red Caps Union, Walter Reu-
ther of the United Automobile
Workers (CIO)) and MMrs. Ell
eanor Roosevelt are believers in
true democracy, and opposed to
dictatorship of any kind, Com
munist as we'll as Fascist.
1t would be more true to say
that Wallace and his party took
their domestic program from the
New Deal Democrats who were
backing President Truman rather
than the other way around.
The real difference between
Wallace and the Communists and
their fellow travellers and dupes
who were backing him, and Presi-
dent Truman aond the New Deal
Democrats who were ibis support
ers, was in the field of foreign
policy. Wallace claimed he was
for peace, but actually favored
giving the Russion dictatorship
of Stain everything it demand
ed We know from experience in
dealing withe Nazi dictatorship
of Hitled that you cannot get
peace by appeasement, i. e., by
surrendering to the demands of
dictators. For as soon as you
surrender to one demand, you
get another thrown at you, I'M
til finally it comes to the point
where free men have to choose be
teen complete urrender and
fighting. Consequently Wallace's
policy of appeasement of the Rus
sian dictorship was in fact a
war policy, not a peace policy.
The other item of foreign poll
cy on which Wallace and Truman
differed was support of the MARI
shall Plan. This plan was in
tended to provide economic aid
to the European countries so
that they could get on their
feet after the terrible destruction
of war. The Russians, and there
fore, the Communists through
out the world, opposed it. Rus
STA and the Communists believed
that a continuation of economic
chaos and misery for the mass
es would be the best way for
them to win power in the nations
where they had not yet seized
control and suppressed all their
opponents. Therefore, they Ovid
not want OF have economic aid
extended by the United States to
reduce or precent misery and
want among the workers. Here
wallace followed Russia's wishes
although the Marshall Plan is
clearly beneficial to our economy
by maintaining our export trade
and is beneficial to the other
nations which have accented -
by reducing the strain of their
porst war economic recovery
Mr.. Wallace must have realiz
cd that his campaign would tend
10 increase the chances of VIC
Tory for the Republicans. The
Republicans had shown in the
10th Congress that they controlled
that they were opposed to labor,
opposed to any improvement in
social security, opposed to low
cost federal housing, unwilling
TO stop the rise in the cost of
hVlng and willing to PLAY bali
with the Dixiecrats to block enact
ment by Congress of any part If
the recommendations sof Presi-
dent Truman's Commission on
Civil Rights. In other words, his
campaign, if he had been sue
cessful in rolling up a descent
vote, would have placed our ma
ton under the control of reac-
ton more than before. Yet Wal
lace was willing to see that hap
pen, il he could PUNISH Presi-
dent Truman because the Presi-
dent opposed the outrageous de-
mands of Russia and helped to
stop the spread of dictatorship
In Europe by providing economic
AID to the nations where political
democracy still exists.
Certainly the Communists have
SHOWN contempt for the intelli-
gence OF colored Americans by
expecting them to fall for such a
program in any large numbers.
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