Henry Wallace was at station KGO in San Francisco last week when the news was brought to him that Joseph Stalin thought his suggestion for a U.S.-Soviet meeting (TIME, May 24) was a fine idea. He looked astonished. Flushed, in a choked voice he said: "If I have done anything that moves the world further toward peace . . . my whole campaign has been tremendously worthwhile."
It was a high point of his West Coast campaign, which had begun in Los Angeles, carried him into Oakland, San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, Spokane,...
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