"THE following is the full
text of Henry AS? Wal-
lace’s radio address in réply
to President Truman’s spec-
ial message to Congress:

)
ESTERDAY we heard a
call for universal train-

ing. Tonight I plead the
case for universal peace.

The grave issues of peace
and war were thrown into
sharp focus on St. Patrick's day.
Those issues will not be settled by
name _ calling. Three years
ago Franklin Roosevelt died.
And in those thirty-six months the
hopes of the people of the world
have been undermined by those
who talk of war and turn their
backs upon the policies for which
he worked.

Two years ago Winston Church-
ill, sponsored by the President,
laid down the policy which has
been followed ever since. One year
ago-the President announced the
Truman Doctrine to contain Com-
munism by using American arms
to bolster: corrupt and reaction-
ary regimes a long way from
home.

Yesterday, Americans were ask-
ed to give their sons to enforce
that doctrine.

Yesterday that doctrine was ex-
panded to a point where it threat-
ens the life of every human being
in the world.

Why have we reached this cri-
sis in world affairs?

Is there is a single reason why
we cannot make a peace to end
the cold war?

“Is there any evidence that
Russia has aggressive designs
against our country or that our
national security is threatened
from any source?

These are the questions which
were left unanswered in the hys-
teria-breeding speeches of St. Pat-
rick’s day, 1948.

The men who are stirring up
hate and fear traffic in a word.
That word is “Communism.
They hope that it will provoke
a hostile response from great
masses of the people. They think
that it is capable of blotting out
reason.

But you can’t fool most of the
people any of the time. We know
that ideas can't be licked with
guns. America’s mothers and sons
know that millions of soldiers
won’t cure the social and econo-
mic conditions which turn many
peoples of the world to Socialist
and Communist parties. They
rightfully believe that a draft and
compulsory military training are
not the way to preserve freedom
at home or to guarantee democ-
racy abroad.

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ET us answer the questions

which others have left: unan-
swered as they cry for militariza-
tion of America and the world.

First, why have we reached this
crisis in world affairs?

We have reached this state be-
cause the men who are running
our government fear the power
of the common men and women
the world over. They have recog-
nized that the world is changing;
that the peoples of the world are
on the march. They know that
the people of France, Italy, Czech-
oslovakia—yes, and the people of
China and Greece-—-want to try a
new approach, They are afraid of
this demand for change and they
are standing against it. They are
using our resources, our sciences,
our productive facilities — and
soon they hope to use the bodies
of our young men—to stop the
demands of the people every-

where.
One year ago I said that Presi-

dent Truman was the greatest
salesman Communism ever had.
I repeat that charge tonight. He
has ignored the deep, underlying
nature of the people's problems.
His approach to fighting ideas is
wrong, Ideas are like nails; the

The fight for peace

harder you hit them on the head,
the deeper they go.

Fundamental land reform is
long overdue in both China and
India. The Communists recognize
this situation and use it, but they
did not create it. Our government
is tacking the phrase “Russian
aggression” onto movements which
are essentially the expression of
an inevitable historical trend. I
don’t want to see billions of Am-
erican dollars—and, what is far
more important, millions of Ame-
rican lives — wasted because
American politicians will not ac-
cept these simple facts.

We have come to this world cri-
sis because willful men with pri-
vate interests are dictating our
foreign policy.- Their interest is
profits, not people. They seek to
protect and extend their foreign
investments against the demo-
cratic actions of people abroad.
They have had the assistance of
other men who do not understand
the problems of the people—either
here at home or overseas.

Some of these men pose as hu-
manitarians as they ask for the
militarization of America. They
say we must militarize to fight
for freedom. But their records do
not reveal that they have led
fights for a secret ballot in South
Carolina, or free elections in the
poll tax states, or for an end to
the divisive practices of segrega-
tion and discrimination.

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N accusing another nation of
sole responsibility for the un-
dermining of the United Nations,
this administration tries to cover
up facts which have brought us
shame and cost us friends
throughout the world. It was our
state department which killed the
United Nations Relief and Re-
habilitation Administration, which
circumvented the United Nations
to give military aid to Greece and
Turkey, which ignored the Unit-

‘ism?

ed Nations economic commission
in planning what it called Euro-
pean recovery, and which is ig-
noring even today the decision
of the United Nations on Pales-
tine. We have a heavy share of
the responsibility for the weaken-
ing of the United Nations,

If we stand self-righteously —
and stubbornly insist that the re-
sponsibility for the world crisis
rests entirely with others, we shall
make peace impossible.

It is openly proclaimed in high
places that we shall, sooner or
later, fight the Russian people;
yet no reason for such a war is
advanced.

Why should we fight Russia?

Does anyone really believe that
we are helping the growth of civil
liberties in Russia or eastern Eu-
rope by threatening their govern-
ments with our armed power and
economic boycotts? Such actions
actually curtail civil — liberties
there and here. We can’t extend
civil liberties by war and prepar-
ations for war. :

Shall we fight Russia bcause
she offers us competition in world
markets? Obviously not. The So-
viet Union is in no position to
compete with us for world mark-
ets. Quite the contrary. She of-
fers us.a great market for our
own goods.

Shall we fight Russia because
we are competing for the raw ma-
terials of the world? We shall dis-
sipate more raw materials in pre-

paration for such a war than they |

are worth to either the United
States or Russia. There is no
competition for raw materials
which cannot be settled by peace-
ful means. .

Is there a single reason to mili-
tarize America — to deprive cur
young men of freedom and throw
them under the domination of
Army and. Navy authoritarian-
There is not. :

The attempt to make the fight
for peace subversive will not suc-

A radio address hy HENRY WALLACE

ceed. We shall seek as earnestly
for the common ground for peace
as others seek the reasons for
conflict. :
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‘HE program to militarize Ame-
rica, if carried out, will im-
pose a police state. Already men
and women are paying a big price
to speak forthrightly for peace.
Speech is not free when it costs
a man his job.

Preparations for another world
war will undermine American
freedom just as surely as if the
enemy had conquered us in the
war just ended,

If we believe in democracy we
have.to support the free flow of
ideas here at home and every-
where in the world. The ideas of
Communists and Socialists for the
solution of basic problems can
only be countered with other
ideas—positive ideas. They can’t
be licked with guns or standing
armies.

. It is shameful when high offi-
cials of the United States imply
that a free, democratic election in
Italy is a threat to freedom. We
can’t counter the propaganda of
others by saying that we only
helieve in democracy when the
election results please us. We

_can’t win friends anywhere in the

world by telling needy people
that they shall vote as the admin-
istration wants them to vote or
they shall be deprived of aid. It
is an exhibition of a lack of faith
in the domocratic process,

It is not our job to attack or
defend actions of any other nation
as we insist that our American
Policies conform to American
principles. We can’t in good con-
science point our fingers at others
when our own government has
perpetrated civil war in Greece
and China, forced major parties
from the cabinets of France and
Italy, armed Latin-America dicta-
tors and violated every fundamen-

tal American principle while it
has used the words freedom and
democracy.

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I Say that our only national de-

fense lies in a return to a for-

eign policy which is American in
principle and practice,

National defense cannot be

founded on arms and weapons of
terror.

The production of those wea-
pons is a profitable business, We
must take the profits out of
defense. The young men who are
asked to give up years of their
lives make no profits from de-
fense and war, nor should any
American.

We must take the offensive
for peace. As we fight against the
draft and compulsory military
training, we must also fight to
eliminate the conditions which
make war and defense profitable
for private interests. We must
bring under control—strict public
control — the private foreign in-
vestments of the monopolists.

We must demand that our gov-
ernment accept its share of the
responsibilities for the world cri-
sis. We must demand firm allegi-
ance to the United Nations. The
price of self-righteousness is war
and depression.

Speak up now. Speak up for
peace.*Pay the price for forth-
right expression. Don't let the
fear-makers intimidate you into
silence. Be heard—be heard now
— for the voice of peace - loving,
freedom-loving people is our only
national defense.

Let us remember that military
might has never imposed a good
idea nor sustained a bad one. Re-
call with me the words of the pro-
phet Isaiah:

“Woe to those who trust in
chariots,
Because they are many,
And in horsemen,
Because they are mighty.”

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