Wallace Predicts Only Depression Can Bring Liberalism to Power

Only a depression can return the liberals to power in a national election, Henry A. Wallace predicted at Friday's Law Forum.

Discussing "Liberalism Reappraised," with Paul A. Dever, former Governor of Massachusetts, and Robert Brancher, professor of Law, the former Vice-President outlined three commandments for liberalism: There shall be freedom of expression; all humanity is one; and there must be a world government.

Liberal Like MacArthur

Quoting Anatole France, Lord Acton, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Dever's speech was a vehement defense of the Democratic record and a denunciation of the "first hundred days" of the Eisenhower administration. "But," Dever said, "liberalism, like General MacArthur, will return."

Dever said people are more secure under Democrats, the liberals, than under Republican rugged individualism. But Braucher countered that glorification of security is not liberalism. He said, "If man has the choice between freedom and peace, and chooses peace, he is not a liberal."