THE OTHER AMERICA

Grey River Argus, 22 October 1943, Page 7

THE OTHER AMERICA

Vice-President Henry W’allace has followed his speech last week with yet another even more vigorous and more outspoken: “When we, as victors, lay down our arms in this struggle,” he said, “against the enslavement of the mind and soul of the human family, we take up arms immediately in the great war against starvation, unemployment, and the rigging of the markets of the world. We seek a peace that is more than just a breathing space between the death of an old tyranny and the birth of a new one. We will not be satisfied with a peace that will merely lead us from the concentration camps and mass murder of Fascism into an international jungle of gangster governments, operated behind the scenes by power-crazed, money-mad imperialist;?.” Millions of Americans must have waited for words like these. It is not by accident that Wallace made this speech before the Labour organisations at Detroit. It is the Labour support which- he can and must win if a force is to aiise in America powerful enough to thwart the schemes of big business and neo--isolationism and to translate the inspiring ideas of Henry Wallace into practical politics. And it is high

time that British Labour started having much closer relations with all sections of American Labour. , Mr. Roosevelt appears to swing leftward again. He has expressed pleasure at Wallace’s speech.