* * * * Mr. Wallace's hot-gospeller tour through the
West and Middle-
West is variously appraised. There have been huge audiences (but audiences are as easily collected in America as in any country in the world), and by all accounts a considerable amount of money has been collected. Does this all point to a new party? A pair of WaShington columnists, Joseph and Stewart Alsop, who (unlike some others) are making themselves a reputation for sound information, think it does. If so, the effect on Mr. Truman's chances of re-election would be considerable, and even Mr. Wallace can hardly want to put a Republican deliberately into the White House. The Communists naturally wish Wallace well. How much he welcomes their en- couragement is uncertain ; "his political sagacity falls a good deal short of his political enthusiasms. One notable feature- of the Western campaign has been the paucity of attention paid to it by the New York and other eastern papers.
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