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Henry a Wallace — Part 3
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¢ UNITED srtites GOVERNMENT
Director, FBI DATE: April 5, 1950 ¢y -f
SAC, Bost Ro SFERMATION CONTAINED
Caik 2/1/es PY SeIGskael
The following information is provided the Bureau and New York
for informative purposes with respect to the activities of the above-named
individual who appeared at Boston, Mass., on March 29; 1950. The Boston
Globe, a newspaper published at Boston, Mass., in its edition of March 30,
1950, advised that former Vice President HENRY A. WALLACE had addressed an
audience of 1,000 students at Boston University, Boston, Mass., under the
auspices of the Boston University Student Assembly On Public Affair
It indicated that he was welcomed to the University by Dr. DANIEL L#\ MARSH,
President, who stated that although it was not an official B. Ue meeting,
WALLACE was not a Communist “and one can hate and despise Commyrism
and still wholeheartedly welcome HENRY WALLACE to the campus, ab 2 do today."
The following represents the newspaper summary of WALLACE's
remarks ¢ be
"WALLACE said the time has come for Four-Power talks among
the United States, Britain, Russia and the 'New China' which would be "designed
to strengthen the United Nations' by discussing the points mentioned in WALLACE's
open letter to Stalin in 1948 and ‘his reply to me, as a preliminary to agreement
on a really comprehensive United Nations Point Four program to build One World,
not two worlds.' . .,
"Says CHURCHILL Stand Reversed = ‘after the underbrush
has been cleared away, and the basis for agreement has been outlined,* WALLACE
said, ‘there should be a meeting of Truman, Attlee, Stalin and Mao Tze-tung.
"!The same Churchill who did so much to start the United States
on the path of the cold war at Fulton, Mo., suddenly deserted his own brain
child and how wants the United States, Britain and Russia to talk peace. ohh
He now sees what I saw in my letter to Truman in 1946~-namely, what it means tof ———
be living in a world where two countries have the atom bomb.
"*l believe the only safety for the United States is to serve the
world. If we approach the problem from the standpoint of either exploitation
or domination we shall disappear from the international scene as certainly as
all the other conquerors. ‘
"United States Position ‘Weaker’ = 'The same statement applies to
the Soviet Union, insofar as it may attempt domination or exploitation.
“tat the moment, the United States is probably in a weaker position
than the Soviet Union because we have relied so heavily on the force of the c
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