Goodbye to Gideon

"Henry Wallace has left Gideon's Army," gritted Manhattan's Daily Worker last week. Wallace's announcement that he supported U.S. intervention in Korea (TIME, July 24) hastily set the Worker revising its estimate of the man it had long considered the world's second greatest statesman. Its new verdict: "Shabby jingoism."

The Worker announced that Gil Green, chairman of the Illinois Communist Party,*would write three articles oh the dialectics of Wallace's defection, but Green got so steamed up that he wrote four. In recognizing the authority of a United Nations action decided in the absence of a Soviet delegate, thundered Green, Wallace had taken refuge in "a technicality so slender that even a crafty Wall Street corporation lawyer would find difficulty in making a case of it."

Worse still, Wallace had 'implied that the North Koreans are Soviet puppets, and worst of all, he was saying that the North Koreans had invaded South Korea when actually they were obviously just trying "to reunite brother with brother." Added Green: "... If Wallace was somewhat more consistent ... he would not be so perturbed about who fired the first shot . . ."

*And one of the eleven Communist leaders convicted last October of criminal conspiracy.

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