The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-02
As Pegler Sees 1t
BY WEsTBROOK PEGLER

By WEsTBROoK PEGLER
Copyright, by King Features Syndicate, Incl
NEW YORK-Henry Wallace has refused
to say whether he wrote certain ldiotic guru
letters to Prof. Nicholas Konstantin Roerich,
the Russian painter, orientallst and interna-
tional political adventurer. I will therefore
now prove the existence of a new deal cabal
which revolved, or spun, aoout Roerich until,
finally. Wallace suddenly snapped out OF his
own dizzy Whirl in 1885, while Roerich was
carving a mission to China and Mongolia
for the Department of Agriculture.
It will be necessary for the reader to pay
close attention to keep the relationships
straight.
Louis L. Horch, at present the regional di-
rector OF the Department Of Commerce for
the states of New York and New Jersey. with
offices in New York, was a disciple OIL
Roerich. He has stated that this organization,
ct which Wallace was certainly a familiar II
not formally a member. was a cult and thai
the faithful regarded Roerich as God Al
mighty.
He compared Roerich to Father Devine. the
NEGRO cultist, whose followers believe that he
is God. The idiotic guru letters which turned
Up in the 1910 presidential campaign as ma
terial intended to discredit Wallace, express
reverence for Roerich and indicate that the
writer had consecrated himself to a holocaust
W means of which the, as it were, dross
WOUIO De burned H. Il1dIlhlIl dIlu d AlllS ~
viving race would be produced. The Russians
called their massacres a liquidation, the Ger
mans called theirs a purge. Both were re-
gional This holocaust was % purify mankind
and therefore was intended to sweep tine
whole world.
Wallace sent Roerich to Asia. ostensibly to
hunt grass seed, in 1884 and canned him by
cable in. 1895. Horch later testified that there
was talk in the cult of a scheme to make
p oor;oI, Rthaod,S of an ip6nnnr6sn+ state of
Siberia. The guru letters wee written before
Wallace sent Roerich on the trip, in contem-
plation of the Siberian project.
In 1888. Wallace appointed Horch. the chief
disciple OF the old cult. 70 the position Of
senior marketing specialist Of The Department
ct Agriculture, with offices in N e W York.
Horch had spent more than 81. Oo0, 600 as angel
or sucker for Roerich's cultural and spiritual
promotions and. in that experience. he had
adopted a spiritual pseudonyra, "Logvan.'
Wallace knew him as a tellow-traveller il
Roerich's queer circle during the years OF
| heir joint interest. Horch continued to work
for the Department Of Agriculture until 1912,
by which time Wallace was vice president,
IN Feb. 1912, shortly after Pearl Harbor. Wal
lace's spiritual comrade was transferred to
the Board of Economic Warfare as assistant
chief in the New York bureau.
Horch was steadily promoted and reached
the status Of chief Of the requirements and
s$pply division in the New York office OF
the Foreign Economic Administration III 1914.
On March 2. 1915. Wallace became Secretary
o. Commerce.. Roosevelt. VINO appointed him,
by this time knew all about the 'diotic guru
letters, about Wallace's association with
Roerich and about Henry's interest in esoteric
or mysterious religions and the old, discredit-
ed pseudo-science Of astrology. Nevertheless.
Roosevelt fired Jesse Jones from the position
of Secretary of Commerce to vacate the Job
for Wallace. Roosevelt thus would have placed
Wallace in charge Of the Reconstruction Fl
nance Corporation.
This is not only the biggest bank in the
world' with the power to wreck the United
States and the capitalistic world, but it is
absolutely autonomous and absolutely ire
sponsible. Its powers are so great and IT'S
affairs so intricate and mysterious that a
person disposed to abolish the capitalistic
civilization and the national boundaries which
protect the United States from the parasitism
and Warlike envy Of the backward breeds,
could accomplish these purposes as chief Of
the R.FyC. Congress refused 10 confirm Wal
lace. for the post Of Secretary Of Commerce
Until the powers Of the REC. were separated
from the job.
In the fall Of 1916, shortly before President
Truman finally fired Wallace as Secretary of
Commerce, Wallace raised Horch 20 the most
powerful position he had ever held in the
government. Wallace made him regional d.
rector. He still holds that Jos although Wal
lace is out. Wallace, meanwhile has been tour
ing Britain, France, and the United States
preaching an indefinite message which advo-
Gates the appeasement Of Russia as a means
O. avoiding war even though this would sub.
ject millions of human beings to the holocaust
ct the purifying fires mentioned in the idictic
guru letters.
As to whether Horch, so long a government
official, is still devoted to the spiritual mystery
CT confusion that first brought him and Wal
lace together there is no guidance. beyond
Horch's word. His word certainly is not al
ways credible. He recently told me, in person,
in my Office, that he never had subscribed
to any of Roerich's mysterious preachings but
was interested in his paintings and culture.
He scoffed at Roerich's mysticism and &C.
cultism. Further investigation proved that
Horch was a devotee, that he and his wife
both addressed Roerich and his. wife as their
spiritual parents and Roerich was 'the mas
ter and that Horch, finally involved in a
financial dispute with his old guru, or master
intellect, said the circle was a spiritualist
cult and said Roerich was just like Father
Devine.
So. whether or not Wallace wrote the idiotic
with Roerich and his circle Of disciples during
a period when Wallace's protege, Louis L..
Horch, would have US believe that the faithful
were held in a spiritual thrall by oriental
makeup and hocuspocus.
This discussion and proof Of a political SUBJ
sidv extended to this oriental mystical ad-
v%enturer in high American politics, will con-
tinue tomorrow.