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a ceETtreree te | ) 3 alot! "Tt is time to struggle against the reaction and the threatening military supremacy which is approaching us in the same foxy way as it sneaked into Italy md Germany in the twenties and at the beginning of nineteen thirty." (Page 86) _ It is clear to WALLACE that it will be difficult to tame down the reactionaries. He calls upon the American people to get ready for a decisive struggle and that everybody should take an example from his forefathers who rebelled against the Inglish mastery; to take an example from those who participated in the Civil War and who fought for abolishing of slavery: "If the people wish to wrench out the political control from the hands of both of the old degenerating parties, they must clearly realize what they are fighting for; they must elect representatives and officers who-wilt-defend—tiese matters amd who cannot be, moved™by threats and political reprisals." (Page 87) The masters of the monopoly in the USA have very effective means for the defense of their privileges. "Newspapers, radio, finance, films and key positions in industrial branches of steel, chemical industry and naphtha exploita- tion are in the hands of a few people who economically decide about the life and death of thousands of small businessmen and millions of farmers and workers." (Page 83) These actual rulers of the United States destine the course of the interior policy awd the foreign policy, and while doing so they are being guided merely with the respect to their own advantages. WALLACE emphasizes that profits of these people depend in most cases on whether or not a substatial budget will be available for military purposes. "Constant endeavor to gain big amowmts for arming purposes and the aggressive foreign policy will drive us into war. This pressure will not come down until we will be able to convince a great part of the commercial world that peace is more advantageous and more likely to be put up with; until we will be able to impress upon this world the meaning that their easy profits which the war perspective offers them, are suicidal." (Page 33) WALLACE, knowing the psychology of the American profiteers, applies to them with real characteristic arguments. He wants to convince the carriers of culture of "big business" that they can have the same profit of peace as of war. He says about big banking houses: "It would be much safer for them if they were depositing rn rrr EE ee