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Vice-President Wallace celebrated July 4, 1944, in Chita, Soviet Siberia accompanied by John Hazard, [[Owen Lattimore]], and [[John Carter Vincent]] of the [[Institute of Pacific Relations]] (IPR), on an official fifty-two-day, twenty-seven-thousand-mile junket to Soviet Asia and China and was the guest of Sergei Arsenevich Goglidze and Ivan Nikoshov, dreaded masters of the Soviet Siberian [[gulag|slave-labor camps]].<ref>''Yalta Betrayal'', Wittmer, 1953, pg. 58. Retrieved from GELO.com [http://www.ogleo.com/search/ogleo-History_of_CzechoslovakiaHistory of Czechoslovakia] 05/08/07.</ref>
 
Vice-President Wallace celebrated July 4, 1944, in Chita, Soviet Siberia accompanied by John Hazard, [[Owen Lattimore]], and [[John Carter Vincent]] of the [[Institute of Pacific Relations]] (IPR), on an official fifty-two-day, twenty-seven-thousand-mile junket to Soviet Asia and China and was the guest of Sergei Arsenevich Goglidze and Ivan Nikoshov, dreaded masters of the Soviet Siberian [[gulag|slave-labor camps]].<ref>''Yalta Betrayal'', Wittmer, 1953, pg. 58. Retrieved from GELO.com [http://www.ogleo.com/search/ogleo-History_of_CzechoslovakiaHistory of Czechoslovakia] 05/08/07.</ref>
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Upon his return from the Siberian journey Wallace was hailed by the [[Congress of Industrial Organizations]] (CIO), [[Office of War Information]], the [[National Council of American-Soviet Friendship]], the [[American Slav Congress]], and other [[Glossary_of_espionage_terms#Fronts_and_cutouts|Communist Front]] organizations as a world figure of the century of the common man.
  
 
Wallace, as Vice President, spoke about encouraging a people's revolution in Europe to advance the cause of the common man.
 
Wallace, as Vice President, spoke about encouraging a people's revolution in Europe to advance the cause of the common man.

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Henry A. Wallace
Henry wallace.jpg
33rd Vice-President of the United States
Term of office
January 20, 1941 - January 20, 1945
Political party Democratic
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Preceded by John N. Garner
Succeeded by Harry S. Truman
Born October 7, 1888
Orient, Iowa
Died November 18, 1965
Danbury, Connecticut
Spouse Ilo Browne

Henry Agard Wallace (1888 - 18 November 1965) was a Democratic politician and the second Vice President under Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1941-1945. He was not renominated as Roosevelt's running mate in 1944.

Early life

Wallace was born in 1888 on an Iowa farm. He went to the State Agricultural College, came out at the age of 22 and worked on the staff of a publication called Wallace's Farmer, which had been founded by his grandfather. His father went to Washington in 1921 as Secretary of Agriculture and Henry became editor of Wallace's Farmer. He remained editor until 1931.

Mystical beliefs

Wallace was interested in mysticism. His early life was in the Presbyterian Church, at college he became skeptical for a brief interval, but turned again to what he called "the necessity of believing in God, imminent as well as transcendental." He began attending the Roman Catholic Church, but later switched to the High Episcopal Church.

Several journalists have written about him say that he had probed into Buddhism, Confucianism and other mysteries and beliefs of the Orient, and that he studied astrology and knew how horoscopes were drawn.

Wallace told the Federal Council of Churches on December 7, 1933 that the times would have to get more difficult in order to soften the hearts of the people and move them "sufficiently so they will be willing to join together in the modern adaptation of the theocracy of old."

Some time in the twenties, Nicholas Constantin Roerich appeared as a highly self advertised great philosopher with a collection of admirers and disciples who addressed him as their "Guru." Roerich dispensed a philosophy of occult teachings that certain superior beings are commissioned to guide the affairs of the humanity. He founded the Roerich Museum at Nagara, India and was the founder of the Roerich Pact and Banner of Peace, signed by 22 countries in 1935. This ceremony took place in the White House. Wallace arranged for the presentation and was named the American plenipotentiary to sign the pact. At the ceremony Wallace said: "I am deeply grateful to have been named by President Roosevelt to sign for the United States this important document in which I have been interested for many years and which I regard as an inevitable step in international relations. The Roerich Pact which forms this treaty provides that all museums, cathedrals, universities and libraries be registered by the nations and marked by a banner ¬ known as the Banner of Peace ¬ which designates them as neutral territory respected by all signatory nations." And on this occasion Wallace described Roerich as "a great versatile genius" and "one of the greatest figures and true leaders of contemporary culture."

A wealthy broker named Louis L. Horch raised money, putting up much of it himself, to erect a building in New York City, called the Roerich Museum. Pulitzer Prize journalist Westbrook Pegler brought much of this material to light. Roerich was a prolific painter and the first floor of the museum was used for the exhibition of his canvases. The remaining stories of this building served as apartments and offices for the elect. Roerich's pictures were believed to possess a peculiar power over the minds of those who sat quietly before them and contemplated them. Many disciples visited the building and did so, in search of "world awareness."

Horch put $1,100,000 into the Roerich program. Horch was appointed to the Agriculture Department as the senior marketing specialist of the Surplus Commodity Corporation which was directed by Milo Perkins.

Roerich decided that he wished to lead an expedition into Asia. Horch says that he expected to set up a new state in Siberia of which he would be the head. To make this possible, Wallace commissioned Roerich to go to China to collect wild grass seed. But stories in English language newspapers in China indicated Roerich applied to the 15th U.S. Infantry in Tientsin for rifles and ammunition.

Wallace apparently fired Roerich while he was in Asia. Subsequently Horch filed suit to recover his investment of $1,100,000 and got possession of the Museum building. In 1942 Horch was transferred from the Department of Agriculture to the Board of Economic Warfare of which Wallace was the head and Milo Perkins executive director. When Wallace became Secretary of Commerce he made Horch chief of the supply division in the New York office of the Foreign Economic Administration.

Just prior to the 1940 election Republican leaders received a batch of letters in handwriting on Department of Agriculture stationery written to Roerich. Having proved the authenticity of Wallace being the author through expert handwriting examination, they considered making them public. According to Newsweek, Harry Hopkins, then managing the Roosevelt/Wallace campaign, went to Wendell Willkie, the GOP candidate, and told him that if the Wallace correspondence became public, then so would embarrassing information about his private life.

In the letters. Wallace addressed Roerich as "My Dear Guru." Roosevelt was referred to as "The Flaming One," Winston Churchill as "The Roaring Lion," Secretary of State Cordell Hull as "The Sour One," and Russia as "The Tiger." One sentence gives a taste of Wallace's prose: "Yes, the search, whether it be for the lost world of Masonry or the Holy Chalice or the potentialities of the age to come is the one supremely worthwhile in objective. All else is Karmic duty. Here is life." [1]

Department of Agriculture

In 1933 he was made Secretary of Agriculture by Roosevelt. He was a registered Republican at the time. Rexford Guy Tugwell was made Assistant Secretary of Agriculture.

The Baltimore Sun referred to him as "one of the most admirable and ridiculous figures of the New Deal." Wallace brought men like Rexford G. Tugwell into the Department as his Under Secretary of Agriculture. It is very clear that Wallace became slowly infected by Tugwell with the theory of State Planning. Mordecai Ezekiel, who believed thoroughly in state planning and had a plan for $2500 a year for everybody, jobs for all and security from cradle to the grave, was his economic adviser in the Agricultural Department.

Wallace headed the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) in the early days of Roosevelt’s New Deal. In the Department in his first big battle he took sides with those who were called reactionaries - George Peek, et al. - against Jerome Frank, Gardner Jackson, Lee Pressman and Rex Tugwell - on the plight of the sharecroppers. He staged the first purge of the radicals in Washington, driving Frank, Pressman and Jackson out of the AAA. The AAA was later found unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court.

Vice President

As Vice President, Wallace chaired the Board of Economic Warfare (BEW) as a member of FDR's secret "war cabinet".

Vice-President Wallace celebrated July 4, 1944, in Chita, Soviet Siberia accompanied by John Hazard, Owen Lattimore, and John Carter Vincent of the Institute of Pacific Relations (IPR), on an official fifty-two-day, twenty-seven-thousand-mile junket to Soviet Asia and China and was the guest of Sergei Arsenevich Goglidze and Ivan Nikoshov, dreaded masters of the Soviet Siberian slave-labor camps.[2]

Upon his return from the Siberian journey Wallace was hailed by the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), Office of War Information, the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, the American Slav Congress, and other Communist Front organizations as a world figure of the century of the common man.

Wallace, as Vice President, spoke about encouraging a people's revolution in Europe to advance the cause of the common man.

Someone observed, he set himself up "as the conscience of the world." Roosevelt biographer John T. Flynn characterized Wallace by saying, "Wallace was indeed as odd a bird as had ever perched upon a cabinet post...There was a good deal of the element of stage comedy in him - wide, queer streaks in his make-up that would excite laughter in the theater but which do not originate in any merry or comic sense in his own character and which cannot by any stretch of the imagination be regarded as funny against the dark background of the events of the time." [3]

1948 Presidential bid

He ran as the Progressive party nominee in the United States presidential election of 1948, but lost to Harry Truman. [4] Former New Deal economist and Soviet spy Harry Magdoff was an advisor and speechwriter during Wallace’s 1948 unsuccessful bid.

Subversion in Government Investigation

In 1944 the Institute of Pacific Relations, according to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, "disseminated and sought to popularize false information including information originating from Soviet and Communist sources," [5] published a fifty-six-page pamphlet, Our Job in Asia, which was allegedly written by Vice-President Wallace. "The Russians," the author of the pamphlet claimed, "have demonstrated their friendly attitude toward China by their willingness to refrain from intervening in China's internal affairs." Some years later -- after the collapse of the American allied Kuomintang government to the Comintern sponsored Maoist regime and in the midst of the Korean War which cost 53,000 American lives, on October 17, 1951, Wallace testified before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee. Wallace admitted: "It begins to look, for the time being at any rate, that my size-up as made in 1944 was incorrect." [6] Wallace further admitted under oath that most of a book entitled Soviet Asia Mission written under his name detailing his official trip to Soviet Siberia and China in 1944 had actually been written by Andrew J. Steiger, a person identified under oath as a member of the Communist party. The Communist party at that time advocated the violent overthrow of the United States Constitution. To Joseph Fels Barnes, Owen Lattimore, and Harriet Lucy Moore, all of whom had been named under oath as Communist party members, Wallace expressed his gratitude for their "invaluable assistance in preparing the manuscript." [7]

References

  1. The Wallace case - 50th anniversary of Democratic Party's Jul 21, 1944 selection of Harry S. Truman to replace Henry Wallace as Franklin Roosevelt's running mate, by Arnold Beichman, National Review, August 1, 1994.
  2. Yalta Betrayal, Wittmer, 1953, pg. 58. Retrieved from GELO.com of Czechoslovakia 05/08/07.
  3. The Roosevelt Myth, John T. Flynn, Fox and Wilkes, 1948, Book 2, Chapter 10, Henry Wallace.
  4. Fandex, Workman Publishing, 2002.
  5. US Senate, 82nd Congress, 2nd Session, Committee on the Judiciary, Institute of Pacific Relations, Report No. 2050, p. 223.
  6. US Senate, 82nd Congress, 1st Session, Committee on the Judiciary, Institute of Pacific Relations, Part V, pp. 1302, 1206.
  7. The Yalta Betrayal, Felix Wittmer, Caxton Printers, 1953, pg. 59.