Wallace Body Hits Militarist Policies in US

Concentrated opposition to universal military training is the first aim of the newly organized Harvard Committee for Wallace, which received official approval from the Faculty Committee on Student Activities last week.

Contending that universal training would signify a United States policy of "dodging" the U. N., the group is basing its campaign on an editorial by Henry Wallace in a recent issue of the New Republic.

In the editorial, Wallace claimed that "as long as any nation . . . feels that its protection lies in arms, we cannot develop a predominant authority in the U.N. Without that authority the UN cannot grow."

Treasurer for the Committee on Wallace, Lazare Nesin '48 emphasized that while the Committee is taking the initiative in opposing UMT, it "hopes for support from other political organizations on the campus." It is, however, more definite on UMT than other groups.

"Clarify the Issues"

First the Committee plans to distribute leaflets showing what UMT is, and endeavor to find out the reaction of the student body to it. "We must clarify the issues first." Nesin says, "by making plain what our position is." He cautioned, however, that the Committee is not a "Wallace for President" organization.

President Truman is expected to introduce the universal training measure to Congress in early January. The proposal is backed by the President, former Justice Roberts, Governors Thomas Dewey and Earl Warren, and the American Legion.

"You cannot lick something with nothing," Wallace says. "You cannot stop UMT without putting something better before the American people." He goes on to advocate universal disarmament and a world police force as a possible alternative.

Faculty Approves Wallace Committee

The Committee for Wallace received its official sanction yesterday from the Faculty Committee on Student Activities, and opposition of military training is its first concrete move. Mentioning an opposing political organization, program committee chairman Staughton C. Lynd '50 said, "We may not grow as quickly, but we'll last longer and accomplish more. We are more for things than against them."

"We see Wallace," Lynd went on to say, "as a private individual who, unlike most, has constructive plans for the future." Nesin added that "we are picking the clearest figure," Newspaper treatment, said Nesin, has been unfair and biased; it is the aim of the Committee for Wallace to present his views straight-forward as they stand.

Recognition of the Committee came after six weeks of containing as an unofficial organization. Formed soon after Wallace spoke here in October, the Wallace group agrees with the broad principle of the former vice-President but considers itself independent on individual issues.