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would be his purpose in doing it? Henry Wallace is not a spiteful man. Well, what would be his purpose in provoking Truman?

Interviewer:

He was interested in world peace--that was the one thing he wanted. The drama of this kind of business--

Perkins:

Why would splitting with Truman bring him any nearer to world peace?

Interviewer:

It would dramatize the thing that he was trying to say.

Perkins:

Well, I don't know about that. Yes, he picked the moment to make the greatest possible impression--but a very bad impression, and didn't influence world peace at all. Certainly he know enough about how things are done to know that if he had worked in a quiet, orderly way, if he had a constructive idea, he could have effected it better. He always had worked that way before. I don't know. I never have asked Henry Wallace. I was shocked. I was horrified and frightened when I found what he had gone into, in this movement--to allow himself to be nominated for President on this funny Progressive Party thing. And the crowd that was in it, you know: The curious people Who had been gathering from the highways and byways. I felt that he was in a very alarming position. I didn't know him and I didn't see him





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