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Henry a Wallace — Part 5
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UNCLASSIF Ley Enclosure to Despatch Noe
518, June 9, 1948, from
hwerican Embassy, Belgrade
ohe
; 4allace muy also count on @ section of the discon-
: ‘tented in tae ranks of tie Vemoeratic and epublican
- . ‘Parties. The points at igsue ure: heavy taxes, police
i terror, désapotiam of tie local authorities, terror of
the owners of big industrial concerns, and the fear of
the foreigners of deportation. All tiese categories
will very carefully weigh tne possibility tuat sallace
may win the eleotion und take them under his protection.
; The reaction will throw itself against Yallace with
en unheurd of furty. It will resort to all of the pere
missible and unpermigsible means. The mignty organizas
tion, american Manufucturers Association, will threaten
the workers with dismisaal from work saould tiey vote
for ‘ieliace.. Dewey, Governor of the “tute of Kew York,
spent no less tian 80 million dollars on his canpaign
for the 1944 elections, while Vallace is today seraping
his election fund together dollar by dollar. The anti-
communist law is now being voted on. That law is so
elastio that it will alsc—be used azainst Wallace and
ais movenent. The negroes ure bein: deprived of tneir TO
right to vote, so tiat they will not be able to vote
for tue Tuird Party.
Roosevelt won four tines in elections against tue
will of monopolistic oapital, and he aid not have the
support of any big capitalist newspaper, except in the
last election waen he was given a limited support from
the kew York Times. But, one should bear in mind the
fact that three times Roosevelt nad the state mucnainery
bebind him, while Wallace does not have tnat supporte :
No matter what tne results of the elections might
be, the fact remains that “allace's movement is a fac-
tor witn which the American roaction must reckon. It
is not only the question of electing ‘inllace as Presi-
dent, but also of tie entry of tne Tuird Party's mon
into the United States Congress; and tose ren will speak |
in the nane of millions of nen againat tue present-day
poltey of dmerioan billionatirea from both Parties,
wnose interests are untiringly defending Trunsn, the
by-cuance President of tue United States of «americas
(Sedo) Nikole Berkovacevic
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