OPINION: Manner of Speaking

As a platform speaker, Henry Wallace has warm words and a cold tongue. As a politician, he doesn't know what time it is. Six months ago he was generally rebuked by the press, not for his assertions that certain Americans are Fascists, but for not naming them. Last week his passion for labeling his opponents got the upper hand again.

In Seattle, the Vice President was winding up a West Coast tour on behalf of what he calls the "ageless New Deal" (TIME, Jan. 21). Without pausing to aim his scatter-guns, Henry Wallace fired from both hips. Cried he: "Wall...

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