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zest! it Pies f Yen 0S Wallace most members regarded it as primarily a Cee ATA AT AAHED Soe aS ENCEASOINDS: 0. Lr &§ 30.3 Henry Wallace announced last week that he was ready to make the supreme sacrifice. “I have no ambition for pub- lic office,” he declared. However, he ha a second thought on the matter: If the only way to advance the cause of world peace was for Henry Wallace to run for President in 48, “I would run as hard as I could.” Paean From Pravda Pravda Jast week counted Soviet Rus- sia’s many blessings one by one, and the results were gratifying. There was so much the Russians could be thankful for, the Moscow daily exulted, particularly their American friends, Pravda named them: : @ Henry A. Wallace, Democratic Sen. Claude Pepper of Florida, and Elliott Roosevelt, whose pro-Soviet stand indi- cated “the mood of the broad masses of Americans,” @ The National Council of American- Soviet Friendship, “headed by the Prot- estant clergyman Melish.” @ “Politicians like Melish [who] express the mood of many simple Americans.” @ Johannes Steel, “the famous radio com- mentator.” @ Prof. Ralph Barton Perry, Robert W. Kenny, Albert Einstein, former United States Ambassador to Moscow Joseph Pravda is gratified: Russia has so many warm friends in the United States - E. Davies, Paul Robeson, “and many others,” including Mollie Lieber. Of all Russia’s blessings, only Mollie Lieber ‘had earned Pravda's accolade the hard way. Mrs. Lieber made no bones about it: She was-an old-time Com- munist-party member and __ orgahizer. Bon in Poland 80 years ago, she came to America when she was 12. “I was disillusioned shortly after arriving here,” she declared last week. At 17, she .was taking part in radical activities. She helped ta organize the Young Communist League, in Illinois and nationally. She also helped to organizé its successor, American Youth for Democracy, and is now co-chairman of the Illinois division. Wallace, Pepper, and Elliott Roosevelt earned Pravda’s ‘accolade by their ‘at- tacks on American foreign policy, and especially on the Truman Doctrine. The others earned it, however, primarily by lending their names to scores of Com- munist-front organizations, including the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, which was first’ organized in 1920 as the Friends of the Soviet Union. During the war, the organization tem- porarily achieved considerable esteem and succeeded in enticing many anti-Commu- nists to join. Since then, its propaganda against United States foreign policy has driven most of them out.* . The record: The Rev. William Howard Melish, associate rector of the Holy Trinity Prot- estant Episcopal Church in Brooklyn, is chairman of the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship. Has been affiliated with the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, the Citizens Com- those who quit: Sens. Leverett Saltonstall ur Capper, President Kart T mpton of T., Judge Learned Hand, and Harold L. Ickes. * Amon and M pée , mittee for Harry Bridges, arid the Na- tional Federation for Constitutional’ publications, including New Masses ‘and *.' Soviet Russia. Today. oi Johannes Steel: Dropped as radio cc mentator by station WHN;.he now pub-; ’ lishes the pro-Soviet newsletter, Johannes} 7 i . ‘sa io com- +"... . Liberties, Has -written for Commutiist, * 4 Steel Report on World Affairs, and is for-’ “+ ;;.! eign editor of ‘the sympathetic Reader's Scope. As candidate for Congress of: Communist-dominated American ‘Labor party, he was endorsed by. The. Daily Worker and supported by 1,000 Com- | munist doorbell-pushers. Prof. Ralph Barton Perry, a sponsor of the National Council of American- Soviet ‘Friendship. Sponsored call to Congress of American-Soviet Friendship, - , dinner honoring Red Army, and Southern Conference for Human, Welfare. Contrib- utor to Soviet Russia Today. Worked - closely with American Student Union and American Committee for Democracy and . Intellectual Freedom. Robert W. Kenny, former State Attar- ney General of California: Affiliated with Coordinating Committee to Lift the Em- bargo, American League for Peace ard Democracy, Council for Pan American Democracy, Friends of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, National Lawyers Guild, League of American Writers, and Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee. Counsel for William Schneiderman, California, state secretary of the Communist party. Albert Einstein: Affiliated with Ameri- can Friends of the Chinese People, Com- mittee for Peace Through World Coup- eration, Congress of American-Soviet Friendship, Friends of the Abraham Lin- coln Brigade, International Labor De- fense, Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Com- mittee, League of American Writers, Medical Bureau and North American 4, ? a 3