AMERICAN PRESIDENCY

Evening Star, Issue 25226, 13 July 1944, Page 4

AMERICAN PRESIDENCY

MR ROOSEVELT'S DECISION Press Association—By Telegraph—Conyrieht WASHINGTON. July 12. President (Roosevelt's fourth-term announcement left the question of the Vice-Presidential candidate in the air, says the Washington correspondent of the 'New York Times.' The omission of Mr H. A. Wallace's name from the correspondence between Mr Roosevelt and Mr Hannigan has led political observers to believe that Mr Wallace's future position is in doubt. It is recalled that in 1940 Mr Roosevelt accepted nomination only upon condition that Mr Wallace was also nominated. The ' Times ' says: "Mr Roosevelt knows that the Democratic Convention's resistance to the renomination of Mr Wallace will be even greater than it was in 1940, as the result of which his lack of reference to Mr Wallace amounts to notification to the convention that the President will accept someone else as a running mate. It is understood that Mr Roosevelt has prepared a list of acceptable candidates, including the War Mobilisation Director (Mr Justice Byrnes), Mr Justice William Douglas, and the Ambassador in Britain (Mr John Winant)." The Washington' correspondent of the New York Herald-Tribune' learns that Mr Roosevelt and Mr Wallace have hold two political discussions since the latter\s return from China and Russia, as the result of which the President is expected soon publicly to endorse Mr Wallace's renomination, although he will probably not insist on the convention acceding to his wishes.