Washington, Apr. 23.
The Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Henry Wallace, warned the nation last night that complete isolation for the United States is no longer possible. Addressing a Jefferson Day dinner attended by many high Government officials, Mr. Wallace declared that a "conquering dictator is shaking the world" and condemned Chancellor Hitle: disturbance of the peace of Europe.
Mr. Wallace urged the Democracies to make common cause of preserving world peace. He said Thomas Jef-person, when President of the United States, discovered the impossibility of the United States remaining fully aloof from European controversies. "If that was true in Jefferson's time, when it required six weeks to cross the Atlantic, how much more is it true today," he said.
His speech was one of the most outspoken attacks on isolationist sentiment heard in the United States from a high government official in many years.
Observers speculated whether Mr. Wallace indirectly was advocating adherence to the proposed collective security pact proposed to Britain and France by, the Soviet Union, The pact would include responsibilities in the Far East.
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