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Line 50: − Just prior to the [[United States presidential election, 1940|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 Wilkie's 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." <ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n14_v46/ai_15674708/pg_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.</ref> − − − − 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== Line 69:
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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.
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.
==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]].
==Mystical beliefs==
==Mystical beliefs==
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]].
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]].
==War cabinet==
==Department of Agriculture==
As Vice President, Wallace chaired the [[Board of Economic Warfare]] (BEW) as a member of FDR's secret "war cabinet".
As Vice President, Wallace chaired the [[Board of Economic Warfare]] (BEW) as a member of FDR's secret "war cabinet".
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." <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 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." <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>
==Dear Guru letters==
Just prior to the [[United States presidential election, 1940|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 Wilkie's 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." <ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n14_v46/ai_15674708/pg_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.</ref>
The letters contained such insights as "May the Light of Northern Shamballa lead you and the Guru and the true expedition toward the eternal glory of the New Age. May strength, power and righteousness surround you. I have no definite cause for worry but certain extraordinary warnings are manifest." In another letter, Wallace referred to some disciple of Roerich and said, "I have as you know an enormous respect for F whose whole being has been centered to serve the Masters. That also is the center of my being..." Worry about these letters and Wallace's erratic behavior led to the decision to replace him as Vice President with Harry Truman on the 1944 ticket.<ref>[http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/Wallace_to_Ayers_Communist_Progressive.pdf From Henry Wallace to William Ayers, Communists and the Progressive Movement], Herbert Romerstein, pp. 10-11.</ref>
==1948 Presidential bid==
==1948 Presidential bid==