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He could afford to rest. His swing through the West had surprised a lot of people, but few could have been more surprised than Henry Wallace. Almost everywhere he had packed the crowds in: 3,000 in Cleveland, 6,000 in Minneapolis, 8,000 in Detroit, a record 25,000 in Los Angeles’ Gilmore Stadium. The people who came paid good prices to hear him: from 60¢ to $2.40 apiece in Chicago, a $3.60 top in Los Angeles. The enthusiasm matched the numbers. In San Francisco, 2,500 stood in the streets outside the packed Opera House to listen to the sound trucks. When University of California officials refused to let Wallace speak in any university building, 10,000 students left their classes to hear him talk from a Berkeley curbstone near the campus gates. In Chicago his audience chanted: “We want Wallace! Wallace in ’48!” In Los Angeles he was introduced, to wild applause, as “the man for ’48.” Only after he left Seattle did his crowds begin to fall off. In Portland, Ore., he drew less than half capacity at the civic auditorium. In Bismarck, N.Dak., only 2,500 busy farmers showed up out of an expected 5,000\. Third Party. But Henry was jubilant, and his statement of intentions soared with the upcurve of his jubilation. When he started out, Wallace was cautiously insisting that his sole aim was to scare the Democratic Party leftward. By the time he reached Denver, he was threatening: “If we can’t make the Democratic Party liberal, we’ll have to take what action is appropriate.” In Bismarck he hinted with boyish glee that he might take “a Democratic vacation” in 1948, i.e., form a third party. The professional politicos, who had largely ignored the Wallace junket, tried to laugh the whole thing off. They said it was all just a stunt to boost the circulation of Editor Wallace’s New Republic (circ. 80,000), and that his audiences, promoted by the Communists, were chiefly a confused jumble of comrades, fellow wanderers, crackpots and wild-eyed college kids. It was true that the hard core of Wallace’s listeners consisted largely of the vociferous intellectual and professional Left. But around it were clustered thousands of ordinary, bewildered citizens. Some of them sought to hear in Wallace’s alternately flat and strident voice the bland tones of Franklin Roosevelt, to recover, in Wallace’s fumbling gestures, the touch of a vanished hand. Most of them were vaguely troubled about such timely problems as the Bomb, World War III, Russia, economic collapse. All were groping for answers and willing to listen to anybody who could offer one and Henry seemed to have an answer—of a sort—ready for anything. The Echo. But this week, as Henry prepared to barnstorm the South, his Western triumph began to give off a slightly hollow echo, and so did talk of a third party. Though the Wallace name had been wildly cheered everywhere, the Wallace words had been greeted with only perfunctory applause. The listeners who arrived in high enthusiasm had gone away as troubled as before. His loud cries “in behalf of the common man”; “stop the rush to war” did not stand analysis, and they continued to ring true only to the devout. The answers his audience sought did not seem to lie in the involuted thinking of Henry Wallace’s misty theories. Te solve U.S. domestic problems, he had proposed a 10% reduction in prices, increased wages out of the “swollen profit structure.” To bridge the widening gap between the U.S. and Russia, he proposed turning U.S. atom bombs over to the U.N. with no strings attached, a ten-year Russian reconstruction program underwritten by the U.S., internationalization of strategic areas. Said one Denver listener: “I remember that William Howard Taft was described as an island of amiability surrounded by people who knew what they wanted. This man Wallace is an island of good intention surrounded by people who are not sure what they want.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6775460/national-affairs-old-lochinvar/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6775460/national-affairs-old-lochinvar/"},"headline":"National Affairs: Old Lochinvar","datePublished":"1947-06-09T04:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T14:16:46.413Z","description":"The tumult and the shouting had died, and, after his cross-country political safari, Henry Wallace was resting at his son's home in Des Moines. He could afford to rest. 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