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schools and museums and he interviewed numerous Soviet citizens. Upon his return to the USA he wrote a book on Soviet Asia in which he proclaimed that it is necessary to keep on developing friendly relations between the Soviet and American people. Then WALLACE warmed against the machinations of the memies of peace, be- fore the intrigues and provocation of warmongers. He wrote: -. "The blood of our sons in the battlefields has not yet dried up but the enemies of peace are already attempting to lay foundations for the third world war. In this they must not succeed. We must make their poison harmless by following ROOSEVELT's policy and ye cultivet- ing friendship with Russia in war as well as in peace." WALLACE! activity for peace and the international cooperation was against the will of the magnates from Wall Street. They decided to get rid of him at the time of the presidential elections in 1944. Although ROOSEVELT requested strongly to have WALLACE nominated for Vice President at the Chicago Conventim, the reaction- aries of the Democratic Party forced out the so-called Missouri compromise - TRUMAN's candidacy. In the last ROOSEVELT sovernment WALLACE represented the functions of the Secretary of Commerce. After ROOSEVELT's death TRUMAN became automatically President and the followers of the date President were soon removed from their positions. . WALLACE, as the last ROOSEVELT's Secretary in TRUMAN'’s cabinet faced energetically the adventurous policy of the government and was in favor of international cooperation. On September 12, 1946 he made a speech at the Madison Square Garden in New York which caused excite- ment and in which WALLACE condemed the reactionary course of the Department of State. - After his resignation WALLACE continued with his political struggle and soon stood at the head of a movement which was to form the so-called Progressive Party, and which Party named him their candidate for presidency. In his book: "TOWARD WORLD PEACE," WALLACE submits a summary of his viewpoints on foreign ad internal policy of the USA and attempts to show the direction in which international cooperation could develop. This was sufficient to the reactionary press in the USA, to brand him as a Communist. Even the ultra-reactionaries would call