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About the Wallace affair. You are as untrutiful about him as you are ignorant. He is one of the few honest and great humanitarians in this hypocritical world of ours. He is hated by his enemies because he stands for peace. Our cur- rent hysterical atmosphere can be traced to a subconscious, but nevertheless over- whelming desire for another war: for the simple reason that the last war is in- delibly linked in our minds with prosperity, more money, better clothes, better food, better living in general and last but certainly not the least--more excite- ment. Our losses were comparatively slight; (for every American solider 1h Russian soldiers died in battle); our physical gains were tremendous. Now that the war is over, and we are beginning to feel the pinch resulting from short- comings of our peacetime economy, we have cast about for a potential enemy, and maturally we seized upon Russia. It takes little difference to point out that the next war will probably destroy all of us. It didn't the last time, did it? We won, didn't we? We have the atomic bomb, haven't we. We have subconsciously been drawn to the sole alternative of peace with breadlines, or war and the abundant life that proceeds from it. As far as I am concerned, three years in the Army with twice overseas, will do me for a lifetime. I am a conscientious objector as far as violence and war is concerned. I am indcotrinating my son along these lines. Calling Wallace a Communist is another ignorant remark, because it has become a great past—time of "patriotic" Americans to foul a man's good name. Reactionaries who have been saturated in the anti-Russian hate gospel, naturally feel it their duty to belittle a man like Wallace who knows that peace is possible only if there is a little more of the Golden Rule practiced and a little less of nationalism. Wallace represents the hope of the World for peace. In him is a chance, perhaps the only chance-~- for the little people of the world to work out their problems so that a better life, not premature death in an atomic-bacteriologic war, is achieved. Because he is so completely honest, because he is so tolerant of the rights of others, he is gaining daily, in prestige among the ordinary folks. Regardless of what "Official Spokesmen" say— editorially or otherwise~= there are thousands and thousands of voters in the country today who think and feel exactly as “enry Wallace does, who feel that he exactly expresses their sentiments. This vast number of voters and followers must be supplied a vehicle, a home wherein they can exercise their right of Freedom of Conscience in casting their ballots. This might call for a new party, a party wherein no one will dare raise his voice in defense of "Man's inhumanity to man"—- and tienry Wallace is the man to lead it. Please do not accept this letter as an attack on your person; I do not indulge in such practices, but I do believe in the right of criticising and pit- ting one's ideas against another's. Yours Sincerely Harry J. “oshinsky ~2 2.