Popular Front Party Coming?

In her syndicated column a few weeks ago, Mrs. Alice Widener predicted that a new left-wing political party would be in the field for the 1968 election. It would be, in political substance, a revival of the Progressive Party that ran Henry Wallace for President in 1948. She believes that the Communists, who were the initiating and guiding force of the Progressive Party, have already reached a decision to this purpose.

Mrs. Widener finds particularly significant the recent publication by a left-wing publishing house of the first volume of an elaborate study of the Wallace movement: Gideon’s Army, by Curtis MacDougall, a Northwestern University professor who was enthusiastically involved in it, and has not—as have many others, among them Wallace himself—seen fit to question his enthusiasm.

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In her syndicated column a few weeks ago, Mrs. Alice Widener predicted that a new left-wing political party would be in the field for the 1968 election. It would be, in political substance, a revival of the Progressive Party that ran Henry Wallace for President in 1948. She believes that the Communists, who were the initiating and guiding force of the Progressive Party, have already reached a decision to this purpose.

Mrs. Widener finds particularly significant the recent publication by a left-wing publishing house of the first volume of an elaborate study of the Wallace movement: Gideon’s Army, by Curtis MacDougall, a Northwestern University professor who was enthusiastically involved in it, and has not—as have many others, among them Wallace himself—seen fit to question his enthusiasm.