POLITICAL NOTES: A Modest Proposal

The position of Henry Agard Wallace was much like that of the man who pursued a girl until she caught him. As far back as April, he had flirted publicly with the idea of a third party in '48. He had carried on a cautious courtship all over the U.S. Last week she turned on him and he got a definite proposal.

The executive committee of the pinko Progressive Citizens of America (of which he is carefully not a member) urged him to run for President as an independent. If this move was calculated...

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