Last week, on the first anniversary of the ill-famed foreign policy speech, which was an apologia for Russia and which precipitated his firing from the Cabinet, Henry Wallace stood up once more in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Acclaimed by some 18,000 fans rounded up by the Progressive Citizens of America, he said:
"That speech, which transformed an Iowa citizen into a citizen of New York and a Secretary of Commerce into an editor of the New Republic, reads even better today than it did a year ago."
He felt compelled to assert that "the Communist way is not my way." But it was...