Wallace Returns, Cites 'Interest in Peace' In Europe

NEW YORK, April 29-Everywhere he went in Europe, Henry Wallace found an "extraordinary interest in peace," and now that he is back in the U.S. he plans to devote himself to a barnstorming campaign to "get the facts to the people."

The New Republic Editor and former Vice-President made these remarks yesterday at a press conference for 70 north-east college newspapers in the New Republic's New York offices.

The Conference, called by Columbia Daily Spectator editors "solely in the interests of free dissemination of information," drew a bumper crop from Massachusetts to Washington, D.C.

So may came-Vassar and Yale sent three apiece, and Wellesley supplied a small brunette and a big blonde-that the conference had to be moved from the New Republic's library to the subscription counter one flight up. Haggard-looking Wallace, in red diamond-patterned necktie and blue suite, leaned up against the counter, perspiring freely, and answered questions for the better part of an hour.

Wallace expressed his faith in the "purifying effect of American democracy" to wash away press and political distortions of the present hysteria wave, which he likened to the days of A. Mitchell Palmer's Red Scare. "The truth eventually comes out," he said.

The primary purpose of his trip abroad, Wallace told listeners, was to "do everything I could to keep the world from dividing into sharp left and sharp right."

Wallace repeated his denunciation of the Truman doctrine as "the first step towards ruthless Imperialism." When a questioner wondered whether he thought the Russians were trying to understand the U. S., Wallace grinned: "I think both sides are trying about equally hard."

Admitting the Russia was a "dictatorship," Wallace said that Russians "do not enjoy freedom as we enjoy it," but said that they have more freedom than they ever had before, and that "they feel more a part of the present show that they ever did of the Czarist show."