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'''Henry Agard Wallace''' '''(1888 - 1965)''' was a farm leader, agriculture secretary (1933-40)  [[Democratic]] politician, and Vice President under [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] from 1941-1945.  After a disastrous term as vice president, he was dropped from the ticket in 1944 despite strong support from the left.  He became Secretary of Commerce, but opposed President [[Harry Truman]] on the [[Cold War]], arguing for friendship with the Soviet Union.  He was fired, then by Truman ran for president in 1948, but the Communist party took control of his campaign and he won few votes.  Disillusioned, Wallace returned to business, where his hybrid corn business was a huge success.  He left a fortune of several billion dollars at his death. Wallace was a major [[New Deal]] spokesman and liberal leader 1933-48.

'''Henry Agard Wallace''' '''(1888 - 1965)''' was a farm leader, agriculture secretary (1933–40)  [[Democratic]] politician, and Vice President under [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] from 1941-1945.  After a disastrous term as vice president, he was dropped from the ticket in 1944 despite strong support from the left.  He became Secretary of Commerce, but opposed President [[Harry Truman]] on the [[Cold War]], arguing for friendship with the Soviet Union.  He was fired, then by Truman ran for president in 1948, but the Communist party took control of his campaign and he won few votes.  Disillusioned, Wallace returned to business, where his hybrid corn business was a huge success.  He left a fortune of several billion dollars at his death. Wallace was a major [[New Deal]] spokesman and liberal leader 1933-48.

[[file:Wallace.jpg|thumb|220px]]

[[file:Wallace.jpg|thumb|220px]]

==Early life==

==Early life==

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.

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.

In the second half of 1944, the [[Institute of Pacific Relations]] published a fifty-six-page pamphlet, ''Our Job in Asia'', which was allegedly written by Wallace. The author says, "The Russians have demonstrated their friendly attitude toward China by their willingness to refrain from intervening in China's internal affairs." <ref> US Senate, 82nd Congress, 2nd Session, Committee on the Judiciary, Institute of Pacific Relations, Report No. 2050, p. 223.</ref><ref>US Senate, 82nd Congress, 1st Session, Committee on the Judiciary, Institute of Pacific Relations, Part V, pp. 1302, 1206.</ref>

In the second half of 1944, the [[Institute of Pacific Relations]] published a fifty-six-page pamphlet, ''Our Job in Asia'', which was allegedly written by Wallace. The author says, "The Russians have demonstrated their friendly attitude toward China by their willingness to refrain from intervening in China's internal affairs." <ref>US Senate, 82nd Congress, 2nd Session, Committee on the Judiciary, Institute of Pacific Relations, Report No. 2050, p. 223.</ref><ref>US Senate, 82nd Congress, 1st Session, Committee on the Judiciary, Institute of Pacific Relations, Part V, pp. 1302, 1206.</ref>

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.

Someone observed, he set himself up "as the conscience of the world." Roosevelt critic 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." <ref>''The Roosevelt Myth'', John T. Flynn, Fox and Wilkes, 1948, Book 2, Chapter 10, [http://www.rooseveltmyth.com/book/fdrmyth_Chapter_Ten___Henry_Wallace.htm ''Henry Wallace''].</ref>

Someone observed, he set himself up "as the conscience of the world." Roosevelt critic 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." <ref>''The Roosevelt Myth'', John T. Flynn, Fox and Wilkes, 1948, Book 2, Chapter 10, [http://www.rooseveltmyth.com/book/fdrmyth_Chapter_Ten___Henry_Wallace.htm ''Henry Wallace''].</ref>

==Mystical beliefs==

==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.

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.

==Subversion in Government Investigation==

==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," <ref>US Senate, 82nd Congress, 2nd Session, Committee on the Judiciary, Institute of Pacific Relations, Report No. 2050, p. 223.</ref> 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." <ref>US Senate, 82nd Congress, 1st Session, Committee on the Judiciary, Institute of Pacific Relations, Part V, pp. 1302, 1206.</ref>  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." <ref>[http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/6315/yaltabet.html ''The Yalta Betrayal''], Felix Wittmer, Caxton Printers, 1953, pg. 59.</ref>

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," <ref>US Senate, 82nd Congress, 2nd Session, Committee on the Judiciary, Institute of Pacific Relations, Report No. 2050, p. 223.</ref> 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." <ref>US Senate, 82nd Congress, 1st Session, Committee on the Judiciary, Institute of Pacific Relations, Part V, pp. 1302, 1206.</ref>  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." <ref>[http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/6315/yaltabet.html ''The Yalta Betrayal''], Felix Wittmer, Caxton Printers, 1953, pg. 59.</ref>

==Further reading==

==Further reading==

* Culver, John C. and John Hyde. ''American Dreamer: A Life of Henry A. Wallace'' (2001) [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393322289/qid=1073502902/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-3227608-3924622?v=glance&s=books excerpt and text search], liberal biography  

* Culver, John C. and John Hyde. ''American Dreamer: A Life of Henry A. Wallace'' (2001) [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393322289/qid=1073502902/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-3227608-3924622?v=glance&s=books excerpt and text search], liberal biography  

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