MR. WALLACE'S MISTAKE
Mr. Wallace's Mistake VICE PRESIDENT Henry A. Wallace is a useful citizen and a well-meaning public official who often makes a great deal of sense in his public utterances. Occasionally, however,...
...Wallace doesn't make sense when he accuses Big Business of being "Isolationist," unless he has discovered some corporate powers in America that are fugitives from the National Association of Manufacturers, the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, and Wall Street...
...How was Hitler able to finance the war machine he has used to terrorize the world...
...Then PM led off the hate chorus that later was to swell to full crescendo during the nationwide controversy over the wages of Dr...
...Lerner's good fellows by printing all across its front page the Cato-like adjuration, "John L. Lewis must go...
...He wrote a piece saying that the coal miners and the steel workers were descendants of immigrants who did a lot of dirty work in the old days building this country up...
...Vansittart's answer is that British and other international bankers loaned him $7,000,000,000...
...Wallace's side whenever somebody proposes another plan to police the world and thus enforce a Tory-desired status quo...
...The Bankers Supplied Hitler (From Labor, organ of the Railroad Brotherhoods) FOR many, many years Lord Vansittart was a high-ranking "civil servant," and was, therefore, in a position to acquire inside knowledge of what was going on in Britain—politically, financially, and diplomatically...
...After all, if Big Business likes the idea of a world police force to stand guard over the status quo and keep cartels from being molested, Wall Street is just as anxious to have its investments policed and interest collected by an international police force financed by the taxes of the peoole of the world...
...Space will not permit a review of all his proposals, but one point needs to be stressed...
...He retired after this war started and King George rewarded him with a seat in the House of Lords...
...Thomas Lamont, spokesman for the House of Morgan, has set the pace for Wall Street with ringing declarations in support of schemes to shoot peace into recalcitrant peoples...
...Why, one wonders, do such members of Congress as the Messrs...
...Mussolini was financed in the same way...
...He came back, a bit breathless, to announce to a waiting world that the coal miners around Scranton were on the whole a pretty good sort...
...It is a good idea not to pick on the working people because they can help win the war...
...Last week, for instance, Wallace, in a speech in New York, sought to create the impression that 'Big Business was "isolationist," that the great corporations of America were fighting the Roosevelt foreign policies, and that these "wealthy isolationists oppose the President" because they want to renew their profitable relationships with "the big German trusts...
...MAX LERNER, an editor of PM, a New York tabloid for war liberals, left his desk in Brooklyn the other day to go way down to the coal fields of Scranton, Penna...
...Lerner Reports DR...
...America is a melting pot...
...armed force...
...Proper Classification THE Russian proposal for a brand-new partition of Poland, with the victors dividing the swag, forecasts the trend of the coming "peace" terms...
...Now Lord Vansittart is sponsoring a drastic program to shackle Prussian militarism...
...Now, either Mr...
...Wallace, or those who prepare memoranda for him, read the papers at all, they must know that Big Business in America is almost unanimous in supporting the Roosevelt policies...
...Lewis wasn't and isn't as devoted to the Administration as was and is PM, but even so it was sort of quaint for a "liberal" paper to be jumping all over the duly elected head of the 600,000 coal miners of America just as he was going into a life or death struggle for the preservation of his union...
...Certainly, if Mr...
...Beyond the fact that an international organization will stand guard over the spoils of victory and police the status quo, the Tories of America are whipping up enthusiasm for the project of policing the whole world because national absorption in debates over foreign policy tends to obscure the need for progressive, democratic action on the home front...
...The money was raised by selling German securities to investors in Britain, the United States, and other democratic nations, and now practically all those securities are in default...
...Last week, in Washington, D. C, the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, composed of the rest of the business moguls not active in the NAM, adopted a resolution supporting an "international political organization" composed of "peace-loving" nations that would "safeguard peace and security" through the use of...
...Wallace pulled the wrong speech out of the barrel or he is getting careless of his reputation for integrity...
...No, Mr...
...Lerner has finally inspected our working classes and found them okay...
...However, these are strange times and it is nice to know that Dr...
...We suggest that when the terms of the postwar treaties are announced, they be printed in newspapers under the proper classification: Real Estate Transfers...
...Occasionally, however, he will mount the platform and play into the hands of the very economic royalists he thinks he is attacking...
...Dies, Cox,, Hobbs, Byrd, and Bridges turn up on Mr...
...The captains of finance have been just as cordial to the theory of peace by force as the above-mentioned captains of industry...
...The National Association of Manufacturers voted only a month x>r so ago that it favored the establishment of international machinery to pre-serve the peace settlement by the force of arms of the "non-aggressor nations...
...Of course Mr...
...If the bankers had not advanced these enormous loans, this dreadful war would not have occurred, because the champions of fascism would not have been able to enslave the people of their own countries and prepare for the subjugation of the rest of the world...
...In effect, they mean simply a reshuffling of national boundaries...
...It is too bad that no editor from PM ventured out of Brooklyn in December 1942 when the coal miners around Scranton got fidgety...
Vol. 8 • January 1944 • No. 4
