Goodbye, Now

The marriage of the New Republic and Editor Henry Wallace had been shaky from the start. It became a trial separation when Henry decided to run for President; Henry would no longer be editor, just a contributing editor (TIME, Jan. 5). This didn't work, either. Columnist Wallace and the New Republic disagreed about the Marshall Plan, foreign and domestic Communists--and the candidacy of Henry Wallace.

Last week the divorce was complete. Candidate Wallace wrote his last piece for the NR, a meandering 13-column restatement of his life and thought: "Few men have been so privileged as I to see at close hand, and to act in, one of the great dramas of all times . . . The strenuous three months ahead will require my full energies. Moreover, the New Republic editors should be completely free to support . . . the candidate and party which most appeal to them ... I am bidding my faithful readers goodbye in one capacity, but I shall sooner or later be seeing them in another." Two days after the divorce the New Republic's young Editor Michael Straight-came out for Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas for President.

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