Wallace Boosted, Berated as Ciardi, Schlesinger Jr. Speak

While John Ciardi, Briggs-Copeland Instructor in English Composition, heartily endorsed Henry A. Wallace as a candidate for President on a Democratic or third party ticket last night, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38, Associate Professor of History, lashed out at the former Secretary of Commerce for his "cynical exploitation of the Roosevelt myth" in his attacks on the Truman administration.

Speaking before the newly-formed Harvard Committee for Wallace in Winthrop Junior Common Room, Ciardi also blasted the "newspaper conspiracy of silence" against Wallace. Even if he never gets past the Democratic convention, said Ciardi, Wallace's appearance alone might have a strong liberalizing effect on the Democratic Party, which is at present "only less conservative than the Republican Party itself."

In a blanket endorsement of the general principles behind the Truman-Marshall foreign policy, Schlesinger told an informal audience in Adams House that forthright support of the Marshall Plan is our only chance of creating a stable and democratic world.

He explained in detail how the "get tough with Russia" foreign policy would lead to clearly-defined and amicable Soviet-American relations, while a nebulous policy of compromise, such as he said the Wallace element advocates, would invite unlimited Soviet aggrandizement and make war inevitable.