The Ghost of Vice President Wallace Warns: "It Can Happen Here"

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Jake Appelbaum <jacob () appelbaum net>
Date: September 3, 2004 3:36:38 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: The Ghost of Vice President Wallace Warns: "It Can Happen Here"

Dave,

For IP if you wish:

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0719-15.htm


'Although most Americans remember that Harry Truman was Franklin D.
Roosevelt's Vice President when Roosevelt died in 1945 (making Truman
President), Roosevelt had two previous Vice Presidents - John N. Garner
(1933-1941) and Henry A. Wallace (1941-1945). In early 1944, the New
York Times asked Vice President Henry Wallace to, as Wallace noted,
"write a piece answering the following questions: What is a fascist? How
many fascists have we? How dangerous are they?"

Vice President Wallace's answer to those questions was published in The
New York Times on April 9, 1944, at the height of the war against the
Axis powers of Germany and Japan.

"The really dangerous American fascists," Wallace wrote, "are not those
who are hooked up directly or indirectly with the Axis. The FBI has its
finger on those. The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to
do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in
a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence.
His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a
fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public
but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the
fascist and his group more money or more power."'

[...]

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Jake Appelbaum <jacob () appelbaum net>

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