THE ADMINISTRATION: Fascism, He Says

Fascim, He Says

Like many another left-winger, Commerce Secretary Henry Agard Wallace has a tactic in argument that is Standing Operating Procedure from Union Square to the Kremlin. When he wants to make a reply really strong he puts on the fright-wig, bugs his eyes and cries "fascist." Last week he did it again, and was promptly slapped down for it on Capitol Hill.

This time Henry Wallace saw "fascism" lurking in the topmost Army & Navy brass. His cause of fright: an amendment approved (6-to-1) by the Senate's special committee on atomic energy which would set up a military board to...

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