REACTIONS OF POLITICIANS

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

REACTIONS OF POLITICIANS

Most Congressmen and other promie; persons approved of the dropping :Mr Wallace, but the former Secrery of the Interior (Mr Harold Ickes), bo earlier broke with Mr Truman, id the President was not very brave dismissing Mr Wallace. He added at Mr Truman had humiliated himdf by first agreeing to the speech nd afterwards throwing Mr Wallace the lions. Senator Claude Pepper (Democrat, torida) said that Mr Wallace’s expulion would have far-reaching effects pon the country and Democratic The Railroad Brotherhood president fr Whitney) said that Mr Wallace as now available to lead a moveat for sound, progressive governienator Walter F George, a promiat Southern Democrat and forerly chairman of the Senate Foreign lations Committee, said that Mr allace’s speech left no choice but agnation, which, however, could not tolly repair the damage suffered, senator Norse (Republican. Oregon)

said that Mr Truman more than- anyone else was responsible for the bungling. Mr Truman approved Mr Wallace’s speech, but ‘‘l suspect he .did not understand it after reading it,” he said. Mr Robert Mason, president of the National Association of Manufacturers, said that Mr Wallace’s resignation would give industry a breath of fresh air. The Paris correspondent of the “New York Times” says that in a teletype conversation with Mr Truman about Mr speech Mr Byrnes said emphatically that he would be forced to return to the United States if the President did not immediately offer blanket support for Mr Byrnes’s present foreign policy. The White House unequivocally denied that Mr Byrnes laid down an ultimatum, either in the teletype conversation or at any other time. Mr Byrnes refused to comment on Mr Wallace’s resignation, but members of his entourage, when asked his reactions when he heard the news, said: “Well, he didn’t look displeased.”