The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-18
As PeglerSeesH
By w%EsTBROOK PEGLER

BY fEtiLER
Copyright, by King Features Syndicate, Inc.)
NEW YORK, July II. You may call him
a %screwball, but if you will listen to me you
may realize how wrong you are in under
rating Henry Wallace. You will realize that
although he has babbled for several years ne
has never revealed his ultimate plan. People
called Hitler a screw-ball, too. Huey Long was
regarded as a clown. They and Henry had a
great deal in common and enc trait which ]
think they shared is a capacity for m a S S
cruelty. an. Indifference to slaughter as an
incident on humanity's way to various objec-
tives. I think Hepry's goal is the development
OF a perfect race in a world state without
personal ownership of anything, a race from
which the divisions created by nature will
nave been obliterated by miscegenation and
the directors and the unfit ano unworthy will
have been obliterated by hecatombs the like
OF which the world has never yet seen.
You will notice that Henry has not said a
word about his association with old P r
Nicholas Roerich, the Russian prophet VINO
was God Almighty to his devotees. You will
notice that he has never discussed his i'm
p~'ication in Roerich's activities. 1 called at
mis- office twice in one day but his secretary
said he was putting the hot ticks on an i'm
portart speech and couldn't see me-. l tele-
phoned to ask for an appointment. I said I
wanted to confront him with photographs Of
those goofy Guru letters which someone wrote
to Roerich in a hand which as been declared
by three of our most noted experts to be
Identical with Henry's own. Nothing ever
came Of these attempts but 1 tell you this,
that Henry will never dare submit to an ex-
animation concerning not only those partic-
ular letters but the activities and pretensions
Of MS old Guru and the occult, mystical and
divine powers which were ascribed to
Roerich.
Way last winter, when l was just beginning
70 piCL nv WAY into {bic norcQiuod in.
distinctly that this oriental school was plan
ming a holocaust to hasten the arrival Of the
survivors, meaning the elect, of the human
race at come sublime state. Communism, in
the Moscovite' sense Of the word, would be a
mere whist1ing point on the way to this desti-
nation, hut it would be on the route, never
theiess. That Is why the Communists a T e
ready to 90 along with Henry that far and
perhaps further. Meanwhile and Immediately,
our taxes would be raised to 100 per cent
OF our earnings and production so that the
capitalist system would be destroyed and the
disaster hurried. Isn't Henry's proposal of
practically unlimited gifts to Russia and the
rest Of the world consistent with that?
] have here a small book called Leaves
Of Morya's Garden which contains the key
to old Roerich's philosophy and intentions.
This is a very rare book and mysterious. The
copy in the New York public library is mutt
lated. Several pages have been cut from the
front of it so that it starts on page g. After
trying several shops which deal in oriental
and other %esoteric stuff l got a copy from a
friend who got it from Louis L. Horch several
years ago. Horch you will recall as a former
disciple Of Roerich who testified that the faith
full adored him as Their god just as the follow
ers Of Father Divine. the Negro preacher,
worship MIN. You will bear in mind also that
Wallace gave Horch several important jobs
in the Departments Of Agriculture and Com
merce, The most important of which he still
Ihn1dc T ronaof <hoco ~ o}{arc jucf N oc$chlich
the chain of connection.
The library card says this book, 'Leaves
OF Mcrya's Garden" was translated from the
Russian by Horch. The inside of the cover
contains a notation suggesting that a member
OF Horch's family gave the book to the
library, Horch has said that the first page
was removed because the inly printing on it
said, Into the New Russia, My First Mes
sage. But I observe also that there remains
no writing to- reveal Horch's connection with
the book. On the title page, above the title,
itself, there is a symbol, like a doodle, old
Roerich was always turning out symbols,
which are an oriental means of expression
and this one probably is supposed to be mysti-
cal II consists of circle containing atri-
angle and three dots in the corners of the
triangle and something that I would take to
be a silhouette of a football player in pads
and helmet, with a half-halo. Nowhere is the
publisher Of this book identified. A fly-leaf
contains the notation special translation
copyright 1921 but the person or company
to whom the copyright was issued is not
named.
Irasmuch as this is supposed to be very
fine Poetry and old Roerich was as vain as
a Broadway columnist, it seems m night y
strange that he is nc: named as the author
in the remaining pages. However in the cata-
log it Is listed as his work. And the fact
that certain pages have been cut out Of both
copies, leads me to suspect that the person
who cid the mutilatins similarly censored all
the copies he could lay hands on and for
some Interior purpose more serious than mere
shcepishness at being connected with this
business.
After this introduction 1 will leap into the
message Of the book on Monday, then let us
see whether you agree with me that 1t pro-
iects a holocaust and q bloody revolution to
sweep the whole world on a pretext OF spirit
uality.