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most members regarded it as primarily a Sle cB : oprinter LAK B03 Henry Wallace announced last week that he was ready to make the supreme sacrifice. “I have no ambition for pub- lic office,” he declared. However, he had a second thought on the matter: If the only way to advance the cause of world peace was for Henry Wallace to run for President in '48, “I would run as hard asl could. . Paean From Pravda Pravda last week counted Soviet Rus- sia’s many blessings one by one, and the results were gratifying. There was so much the Russians could be thankful for, the Moscow daily exulted, particularly their American friends. Pravda named them: @ Henry A. Wallace, Democratic Sen. Claude Pepper of Florida, and Elliott Roosevelt, whose pro-Soviet stand indi- cated “the mood of the broad masses of Americans.” : . @ The National Council of American- Soviet Friendship, “headed by the Prot- estant clergyman Melish.” ; @ “Politicians like Melish [who] express the mood of many simple Americans.” @ Johannes Steel, “the famous radio com- mentator.” : C Prof. Ralph Barton Perry, Robert W. Kenny, Albert Einstein, former United States Ambassador to Moscow Joseph Pravda is gratified: Russia has so many warm friends in the United States E. Davies, Paul Robeson, “and many rest eth ajlipg, ¢ others,” including Mollie Lieber. Aas i at ENT RNED Of all Russia’s blessings, only Mollie ieee! att if’ the? BATat Lieber had earned Pravda’s accolade the EE SPN ERS” ,qacompyonyjsey? . hard way. Mrs, Lieber made no bones about it: She was an old-time Com- munist-party member and orgahizer. V.spp @sfeyton in Poland 30 years ago, she came to America when she was 12. “I was disillusioned shortly after arriving here,” sh: declared last week. At 17, she was taking part in radical activities. She helped to organize the Young Communist League, in Illinois and nationally. She also helped to organize its successor, American Youth for Democracy, and is now co-chairman of the Illinois division. Wallace, Pepper, and Elliott Rousevelt earned Pravda's ‘accolade by their at- tacks on American foreign policy, and especially on the Truman Doctrine, others earned it, however, primarily by lending their names to scores of Com- munist-front organizations, including the National Council of American-Soviet . Friendship, which was first organized in 1920 as the Friends of the Soviet Union. During the war, the organization tem- porarily achieved considerable esteem and succeeded in enticing many anti-Commu- nists to join. Since then, its propaganda against United States foreign policy has driven most of them out.* . The record: The Rev. William Howord Melish, associate rector of the Holy Trinity Prot- estant Episcopal Church in Brooklyn, is chairman of the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship. Has been affliated with the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, the Citizens Com- . Among those who quit: Sens. Leverett Saltonstall and ur Capper, ident Kari T. Compton of M.L.T., Judge Learned Hand, and Harold L. Ickes. cba 16 722 Sa heel Parte iol tote mittee for Harry Bridges, and the Na- tional Federation for Constitutional Liberties. Has written for Communist publications, including New Masses and Soviet Russia Today. ; Johannes Steel: Dropped as radio com- mentator by station WHN, he now pub- lishes the pro-Soviet newsletter, Johannes: Steel Report on World Affairs, and is for- eign editor of the sympathetic Reader's Scope. As candidate for Congress of - Communist-dominated American Labor party, he was endorsed by The Daily Worker and supported by 1,000 Com- munist doorbetl-pushers. ‘ Prof. Ralph Barton Perry, a sponsor of the National Council of American- Soviet Friendship. Sponsored call to Congress of American-Soviet Friendship, dinner honoring Red Army, and Southern Conference for Human Welfare. Contrib- utor to Soviet Russia Today. Worked closely with American Student Union and American Committee for Democracy and Intellectual Freedom. . Robert W. Kenny, former State Attar- ney General of California: Affiliated witl: Coordinating Committee to Lift the Em- bargo, American League for Peace and Democracy, Council for Pan American Democracy, Friends of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, National Lawyers Guild. League of American Writers, and Joint . Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee. Counsel for William Schneiderman, California, state secretary of the Communist party. Albert Einstein: Affiliated with Ameri- can Friends of the Chinese People, Com- mittee for Peace Through World Coop- eration, Congress of American-Sovict Friendship, Friends of the Abraham Lin- coln Brigade, International Labor De- fense, Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Com- mittee, League of American Writers, Medical Bureau and North American treet