The Chicago Star

Stop preparing for new and final war - Wallace

Henry Wallace came to Chicago Wednesday night to thunder his conviction that "the world can and must stop preparing for a third and final world war."

To the thousands who packed the Chicago Stadium Wallace declared:

"I came here to assert my faith that through the United Nations the world can and must find a basis for lasting peace."

The giant rally, which also heard UAW-CIO Vice-president R. J. Thomas and Paul Robeson, was sponsored by the Progressive Citizens of America.

EARLIER in the day, the former vice-president told the press:

"I believe that the Senate vote supporting the Truman Doctrine is out of line with the sentiment of the people of this country."

"Our people are opposed to military loans without qualification."

Asked about the possibilities of a third party in the U.S., Wallace smiled and said, "It's too early to say where the progressive vote will go in 1948."

He had already expressed an indication that he would run for president if such a candidacy would "aid the cause of liberalism here."

SPEAKING on anti-labor legislation passed by the U. S. Senate and House, Wallace explained that "I haven't had the opportunity to study the bills, but I am opposed to restriction of the fundamental rights of labor."

On taxation he asserted that "any realistic approach shows that cuts in expenditures immediately after war are impossible. Tax cuts will come anyway with an increase in unemployment."

The Stadium rally represented the biggest outpouring of Chicago's progressive citizens behind independent political action held here during recent years.

WALLACE made Chicago one of the first stops on a coast-to-coast swing that will bring him before several million Americans with a ringing declaration of the views that have made him an international storm center.

While he was still on his recent European tour, Wallace declared his desire to speak first in the Middle West. In meetings in Minneapolis and Cleveland, as well as in Chicago the fighting progressive spokesman hammered at the Truman policies at home and abroad which he believes are bringing us to the brink of a new world disaster.

"I've come to Chicago," he told the huge Stadium gathering, to assert my belief that there need be no more war."