The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-02
AsPeglerSeesH
BY WEsTBROOK PEGLER

BY WESTBROOK PEGLER
Copyright by King Features Syndicate, Inc.
Now we have the expert opinions of three
Of the best authorities on hand writing that
the man who wrote some specimens offered
as authentic handwriting of Henry Wallace
also wrote the mysterious guru letters which
turned up in the 1910 campaign when Wallace
was being elected vice president. These ex-
perts are Clark Sellers and John L. Harris,
of Los Angeles and George ]. Lacey, of Hous-
ton, Tex. There is absolutely no doubt that
the exemplar letters are authentic. Wallace
wrote them and no doubt will acknowledge
them.
So it comes to this. that the Roosevelt par
ty, in 1910. with the world at war and the
United States comitted to war and only 10
months or so from total war, was willing
to let the people vote a man into the vice
presidency who was staggering around in a
spiritual haze and not long before that had
been carrying on like a little boy who has
joined the dirty dozen in a cave in a railroad
cut. This is the widest gibberish you ever
saw.
Who is the flaming one, sometimes called
the wavering one? That seems to be Roose-
welt. himself, who undoubtedly saw this stuff
but apparently too late to repudiate Wallace
in 1910 although he certainly did dump him
in 1914. The sour one seems to be Cordell
Hull, then Secretary of State. What the devil
is the protecting shield of the great ones,
anyway? My authorities on yoga tell me that
this is rubbish and that this file reveals only
a rather juvenile fad rather than an under
standing Of their philosophy. Yoga, l am told,
is not a belligerent spiritual movement intent
on purging the world by purifying fires and
fierce battles against human elements re.
garded as vermin. They are spiritually con-
templative, sedentary, aloof and rather Sorry
for than impatient with us poor, troubled
ignoranti, the ~un-elect Of mankind. But they
have in mind no mighty battles or fires at
the prospect of which the writer of these
letters found that his heart sang out.
Would the people of the United States,
even the most insensate Roosevelt idolators,
have voted for Henry Wallace as Roose,
velts possible successor if they had known
that he was calling some people tigers, others
hyenas and still others monkeys or if they
even suspected that he was prattling about
a mysterious sacred stone and a locket out
of the past? Not even Roosevelt could have
hauled on his ~coattails the political dead
weight and drag of a man who talked about
something called a heart trust and a chalice
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of a fragrance from the other world and the
real world at that.
Now. those who are asked to follow Henry
Wallace, to believe in him as a political
leader. have a duty to the country to demand
first that he confront this question Of the
authorship of these letters. If he denies that
he wrote them, three of the foremost autho.
rites in the world will confront him imme-
diately before any forum and point out their
technical and logical reasons for asserting
that the same hand wrote them which wrote
twoW Wallace letters of unquestionable anthem
ITCHY. Having confronted Wallace with the
letters, the next move is to investigate Nicho-
las Konstantin Roerich, a pundit or dabbler in
oriental philosophy, and find out where he
got his money to establish museums in New
York and elsewhere. He seems to have been
a White Russian of the old regime, but what
ever his politics may have been later when
he was batting around the orient at the ex-
pense of the American people, chasing grass
seed for Wallace and the Department of Agri-
culture, he certainly was a hot shot to
Henry Wallace. The Russians had a wild,
rumpled, smelly monk named Rasputin who
may have been completely misunderstood and
a martyr to some still mysterious truths.
However that may be, he dominated the
Czarina and the whole regime went to smash.
Wallace's ave of his teacher or guru, as
teacherS are called IN the SanSkrlt lessons,
is unlike anything ever before in the high
politics of the United States. The fellow has
a right to any religious or philosophical be-
lief and to acknowledge or revere any teach
er, messenger or god that he fancies. But
II the beliefs of an ambitious politician do
hold In contempt as trivial and ephemeral the
nationality and integrity Of the United States,
then the people have a right to know this and
to all information bearing on the question.
II ne is mentally and spiritually subservient
to the will and motives of a hidden master,
that IS important to the people.
Hitler was a goofy personality who tweak.
ed a nerve in the morose and desperate
psychology of some Of his people and was
actually a God to many a mad Heinie. He
thought he heard voices. He had a wild eye
and probably enjoyed himself in his final
hour Of martyrdom. He talked of fires and
1nally resorted to them. Fire fascinated him.
Wallace is Indifferent to personal disparage-
ment. Call him a crackpot and you are the
crackpot, hooking a holy man. But look at
mat eye. Consider the vision of letters of fire
ana tile use of inner principles to conquer
tne outer world; the chalice with the flame
ABOVE 1t; and the descent Of America into
me depths OF purifying fires. And with those
ullags IN mind, wonder what Henry Wallace
woulo nave done and undoubtedly still would
40 Il. by accident or some horrible freak of
en1olonal mass psychology. he sh ould ACQUIRE
lor Just one year, or even 4 month. the
terrible powers that are entrusted to the
l ETeSloem of the 1}nifal Sxo%a.