WALLACE’S SPEECH

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 September 1946, Page 7

WALLACE’S SPEECH

American Cabinet Split Heralded ? FOREIGN POLICY ISSUE (Reed. 11.5 a.m.) NEW YORK, September 16. “I stand upon my New York speech,” said the United States Secretary of Commerce, Mr. Henry Wallace, in a statement to-day. He added: “It is interesting to find that both.the extreme Right and Left have disagreed.” Mr. Wallace said he would continue to work for a. just and lasting peace and would again speak* on this subject in the near future. The Associated Press said Mr. Wallace’s announcement apparently heralded a wide-open Cabinet split. JTis fighting tone has rendered it imperative that President Truman should review the whole crisis between Mr. Byrnes and Mr. Wallace. Earlier, State Department officials told reporters that they assumed, in view of Mr. Truman’s disavowal, Mr. Wallace would feel it was better not to make any more speeches. Before issuing to-day’s statement Mr. Wallace telephoned Mr. Truman. According to a Moscow message, Pravda, commenting on Mr. Wallace’s policy speech, said: “There can be no doubt that this speech by the only surviving member of the Roosevelt administration in Mr. Truman’s Cabinet reflects the definite worry of the more rar-seeing elements in the United States regarding future peace, and the effect upon it of the imperialist and militarist tendencies of American policy.”