From the Horse's Mouth

The U.S. Communist Party said flatly last week that Henry Wallace's third party, platform and all, was strictly a Communist idea. The statement was made in a resolution prepared for the Communist Party's convention, and published in The Worker.

After the usual run of epithets about the "bipartisan war coalition" and the "reactionary, imperialist essence of the Marshall Plan," the resolution declared that, as soon as the war ended, the Communist Party had "boldly proclaimed the need ... for a new people's party." The resolution added modestly: "Because of its correct line, the Party was able to carry on effective mass work and make significant contributions ... to the forging of the new political alignment and people's coalition."

The resolution admitted that Henry Wallace's party was not all that could be desired. Certain ideological faults would have to be corrected. "It is necessary to expose the illusion that the abolition of monopoly rule . . . will usher in a system of 'progressive capitalism' " (a pet idea of Henry Wallace's). But that was minor. "The central immediate task of the Communists," the resolution declared, "is to help the people's coalition to realize its immediate tasks."

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Testifying on the Mundt-Nixon bill before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week, Communist Boss William Z. Foster was asked if U.S. Communists would fight against Russia. Said Foster: "If there is a war, the fault will lie not with the Soviet Union but with the Wall Street monopolists . . . We are not going to fight against the Soviet Union."

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