Courier-herald. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1949-1950, 1950-01-14
Roy Tucker
Where Is Henry?

where Is Henry!
WASHINGTON. Jan. Ia - Numerous
readers ask the present whereabouts and
activities of Henry A. Wallace, with added
queries ON what has happened to the
independent third-party movement with
which he declared that he would some day
sweep the country against "reactionary
Democrats and Republicans.
Answer: Henry is living quietly outside
New York City, and seems to be inactive
and Indifferent to personal or national
politics. Last heard of him, he was ex,
perimenting to boost the production OF
eggs although the government now has
SO million pounds of the dried stuff on
hand at current inventory cost Of $89
million. That would be like him.
DISILLUSIoNED-W heard
only recently that Henry is so disillusioned
with national and world affairs not to men
ton the peoples refusal to recognize him
as willing saviour, that he plans to quit
the Progressive Party which he and his
leftist friends founded after his 1948 presi-
Dental defeat.
MIR. Wallace stubbornly rejected pro-
Moscow friends demand that he run as
an independent in the recent Lehman
Dulles senatorial race in New York. That
may be a tipoff on his discoura cement.
Had he entered the contest, Mr.. Lehman
might have been defeated.
1.-THE former Governor won by
only 1928 over John Foster Dulles. Re.
preventative Vito Marcantonio, as the AM
erican Labor Party's (Wallace's New York
faction) nominee for Mayor, polled 356, 900
in New York City alone. Thus, If the ex-
Iowa farmer had been on the ticket in a
statewide scrap, possibly polling larger
vote than Mr.. Marcantonio, the COP en-
try might have won easily.
The understanding here is that, de-
spite disagreement on the Administration
cold war" policy, Mr.. Wallace preferred
a Democrat like Mr.. Lehman to Mr.. Dulles,
who had been principal architect of our
antl-Russian program.
EXPLANATION - The plain fact is
almost negligible at the moment, although
recurrence of bad times might restore
their health The present political and
economic climate is not propitious to in
surgency.
Extreme leftist groups like Mr.. Wal
lace's naturally suffer from intensification
and aggravation of the "cold war; with
their beloved Soviet state. High wages
and employment, temporarily at least,
neutralize the appeal Of other rebellious
and querulouS elements.
But a basic explanation is that Presir
dent Truman's elaborate and far-flung
fair deal" legislation parallels the MAYER
icks' domestic demands SO closely that
they cannot work UP popular interest in
political protests. He has sWiped their
non guns and big guns
MILD-Wallace, for instance, address
ed the only major convention which his
Progressive party staged in 1949, at Cleve-
land. For him he was unusually mild,
even lethargic, in his speech
The ProgresSives' domestic program
could have been written by Clark Clifford.
retiring White House ghost The Wal.
lacers even toned down their foreign plank.
They simply demanded world program of
Anglo-R usso-Ameri n ooperat o n
through the United Nations, and that us.
funds for overseas aid be funnelled through
the u. N.
EcHo-The Socialists principal get
together was held under Governor Thomas
E. Deweys nose at Albany. Their plat
form was virtually an echo Of his 1913
campaign promises and the Truman doc.
trines.
The Communist Party virtually dis.
appeared. Best estimates place the total
of active, sdiehard members at only 10000
the lowest in twenty years. Circulation
of its three principal neWSDaDerS is mere