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| Wallace Arat at Taft Assail ‘Administration Policies Former Charges ‘Campaign Of Terror’ By FBI; Latter Attacks ‘Planned Inflation’ — we, Henry A. Wallace and Senator Robert A. Taft (R., Ohio) yesterday assailed policies of the Truman Ad- ministration, the former Vice President charging the BI is conducting a Hitler-like “campaign of terror” gainst “liberal” Government employés and the Senator ttacking what he called the Administration’s policy of ‘planned inflation.” Wallace By HOWARD NORTON [Sun Staff Correspondent] Philadelphia, Sept. 19—Henry ‘that the FBI is conducting a cam- paign of terror against ‘liberal’ Government employés that is “reminiscent of the early days of Adolf Hitler.” Warning an audience of more ‘than 13,000 at Convention Hall that mericans are in danger of losing tReir political liberties, the former Vice President declared: “Old friends and coworkers from |my years in Washington report to :me that agents of the FBI are con- dueting a campaign of terror un- ‘equaled in our history ‘Awakened At Niant’ “They are awakening liberal Government employés in the mid- Gle of the night and interrogating jthem at great length.” ' These actions are being kept | quiet, he continued, adding: “We must demand an end tg this Silent reign of terror. We must return to American principles.” Wallace accused President Tru- man of fostering war hysteria in ordering the immediate swearing in of James V. Forrestal as De- fense Secretary a week ahead of schedule, He repeated the charge he made Jast week in Madison Square Gar- den that Wall Street and the Army are running the country. He reit- erated the threat to organize a third party if the Democratic party li les. {A. Wallace charged here tonight|Robert A. Taft tonight closed eight i Taft. By DEWEY L. FLEMING [Chief of Washington Bureau] San Francisco, Sept. 19—Senator} days of presidential soundings in California and’ headed eastward to Nevada. The climax of the visit was the Senator's attack on what he calls the Truman Administration’s policy of “planned inflation,” and the ten- dering of his own program for halt- ing runaway prices—in an address before San Francisco’s Common- wealth Club. Outstanding Proposals Outstanding among his pro- posals were: 1. Stabilization of wages and prices at some new level. perhaps 50 or 60 per cent above the 1939 level. 2. An increase of the minimum wage from the present 40 cents an hour to “at least’ 60 cents. Tells Of Oversight Actually the Senator did not give voice to his minimum wage boost) proposal in his address, although} it appeared in the advance texts of' the address and already was in print in local newspapexs—beséne he spoke. At a press conference held im- mediately after the speech the Senator said it was an oversight that- he failed to read the recom- mendation. “I must have lost my place in reading my manuscript,” he ex- riained, “I now reaffirm the state- . ‘rffuses to adopt “liberal”: prinjiment made in the text. My failure! to read that part was purely acci- | Wallace spoke tonight under thefj dental.” i auffpices of the Eastern Pennsyl When the Senator. who is chair: (Continued on Page 9, Column 2) | (Continued on Page 9, Column 3) By gecsm rar te hidi wea, % : ween as tle “ trad oe hoy fare te la aiub sile/ea BYSiQs OS. ROUTED t* da ~~ yee, “A Aen FROM Tris Gri bil Twin 20, RIM Reser a ttn nintiats — o ‘ON CONT? Ned ASSHO DaVlveo> au GUN 1947