Mr. Henry Wallace may be capable of improving the United
States, and even the world, but I am not impressed by his attempts to improve the New Republic, of which he is now Editor-in-Chief. The first issue to appear under the new auspices contained a great deal. about Mr. Wallace's past, " an exclusive New Republic interview with R. H. S. Crossman, British Labour Member of Parliament "- a scoop of the first order, this—a full page drawing of Mr. Wallace, a five-page proclamation of policy by Mr. Wallace, another drawing, this time a macabre production featuring Senator Wherry. All this, I gather, is the approved expression of American intellectualism, and across the narrowing gulf that was once the sundering Atlantic intellectual cries shrill incitement to intellectual. But the emotions seem to be doing a good bit of overtime too.
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