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CESS De ee _ ‘er in the ‘lhplomacy, or in the he election “OMmMiiltee the Soviet tien ranks -m in the omminist the move- 2 oosevelt’s ~ . Vhe recog. - 1 penetra- :¢ infiltra- awn from ‘tion and Governor barrage 1932 the ist, Rooses Loosevelt’s y hunger ct as “the ‘tice, who ane today endorse- - nee is an - jowa, and Respectability an’ Success C 255 inherited the publishing racket of his father, Henry C. Wallace, who was Secretary of Agriculture under Coolidge. When old man Wallace got the Republican job from Coolidge, he resigned as editor of Wallace's Farmer in favor of his son who now takes the old man’s job in the Roosevelt cabinet. This Wallace family is connected with bankers and grain speculators in the Middle West and the publica- tion, Wallace's Farmer, shared in millions gypped from the farmers by the Harvester trust.” “Wallace,” declared the communists, “wants to make Roosevelt a dictator to boost prices for the benefit of the trusts, thus hitting the poor farmers on the land and the workers in the city.” Roosevelt and the New Deal were characterized as follows: “Yes, the ‘New Deal’ may prove to be fascism. This smiling India rubber liberal in the White House is destined to destroy all remaining Amer- ican liberals.” Ear! Browder, General Secretary of the Communist party, on July 8, 1933, delivered this blast: “For the working class the Indus- trial Recovery Act is truly an Industrial Slavery Act. It is one of the steps towards the militarization of labor, It is a forerunner of Amer- ican fascism.” The communists, in 1934, branded the Wagner Bill as “Roose- velt’s company-union club against the workers.” Browder, at a press conference during the Eighth National Con- . vention of the Communist party, characterized Roosevelt as follows: “Roosevelt is the most effective agent Wall Street has had in several years.” When a reporter asked him, “Is there no difference between Roosevelt and Hoover?” He answered: “Yes, there is a difference. The masses feel it-in their stomachs. The masses have less food, less clothing, more inadequate shelter now than they had under Hoover.” The communist May Day Manifesto screamed: “Against the New Deal Fascism and War.” Of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt the communists had this to say: “The only girls Mrs. Roosevelt really knows, are those in her own set; the millionaire families with their parasitic debutante daughters, who participate in orgies that not even Hollywood could duplicate.” Never- theless, when the Party line changed and the communists wedded the New Deal, they did not hesitate in enlisting the services of Eleanor Roosevelt in many of their outstanding united front causes. What took place to change the line of the communists towards the New Deal? The answer is not to be found in the United States.