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° Stag ta, Seeudan : fee _ april 24, 194. Despatch No. 44 Ss speak before this crowd, it was clear that he was enormously leased) the turnout was undoubtedly far better than he had op OFo . Mr. Wallace was introduced to the audience by iiiss Kerstin HESSELGREN, the "grand old lady" of Swedish politics andthe ————— BA to be ber oo: oma) come a momber £ the Riksdag, representing the Liberal Party; Miss Hesselgren is at the present tine the Chairman of. the Society for International Cooperation for Peace, and it was in that capacity she made Lir. Wallace welcome. In his speech, the contents of which are summarized in the enclosed memorandum, lir. Wallace paid great and flattering tri- bute to Sweden for its achievements in the social and economic fields and in peaceful pursuits in genoral, and he stressed tho important role reserved for the Seandinavians as intor- mediaries and moderators between the Communist East and the Capitalist Wiest. Otherwise, li. Vallace added nothing new to what ‘he had said on oarlier occasions in recent woeks, although he appeared to bo more moderate in his criticism of the foreign policy of the United States and advocated a middlo-way policy within the framework of the United Nations rather than a policy of appeasement vis-a-vis Russia. He warned against continued armaments and appealed to what fia doseyibed as the non-bellig- erent Right to exercise its great influence in favor of peace, for “a fev wellete-do people who want paace can neutralize the warlike forces imuch more effectively thousands of aggressive - leftewingers”. He had come to Sweden not to appeal to the in- tellectual Left but to the pacizist Right, because in Scandi- navia the employers had given so many domonstrations of their understanding and willingness to cooperate with trade unions and cooperatives in order to inerease the prosperity of the comuon people. ilr. Wallace expressed hia satisfaction with the interest in the United Nations which he believed he had found in Sweden and hoped that the Svedes would be able to activate the work within the Leonomic and Social Councils of the U. Nv, whose important taske had come to be overshadowed by the Security Council and its strifes. The one-hour speech was interrupted by applause on several points and lr, Wallace was cheered by an enthusiastic audience when he had finished. Compared with the great publicity saved tir. Wallace in the Swedish press prior to his arrival in Stockholm, the covorage given hia speech by the Stockholm morning papers on ‘April 19 was relatively meager, many St)ers devoting most of the spaca to dramatic descriptions of the tumult which preceded the weet=- dinge The Liberal- adical BX+itkssuil (April 19 in this comoction.. took tho sponsors of tho meeting strongly te task for having wis- gudged so coupletely the public interest in hearing lin. Wallace speake