MR WALLACE RESIGNS

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24987, 23 September 1946, Page 5

MR WALLACE RESIGNS

Disagreement With U.S. Foreign Policy

ACTION follows request BY PRESIDENT

lb (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) Rec. 9 P- m -) WASHINGTON, September 21. t “Winning the peace is more important than high public £ Ete or any consideration of party politics,” said Mr Henry A | rallace, in a nation-wide broadcast. “I believe firmly that gLe is nothing more important I can do than work in the S use of peace and the action taken by the President relieves * K of any obligation to be silent about foreign policy until « tier the Paris Conference. g Mr Wallace yesterday resigned his position as Secretary J (Commerce at the request of Mr Truman, who said that J bere was no change in the foreign policy of the United States. * “I feel that our present foreign policy does not recognise * !e basic realities which led to the two world wars and which I iow threaten another—tnis time an atomic war,” said Mr Wai-

h fie emphasised that he would continuously and I rholduartedly advocate the principle of living in one world, nthont which there could be no peace. He was also opposed to , all forms of imperialism. Any regionalism necessary to • ire practical form to the world of economic and political * slides must take into account the small nations’ rights