The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-27

NEW YORK, AUG. Is
Henry A. Wallace,
Farvue Farm. North Salem, N. Y.
Dear Wallace:
have received from the New Republic, Of
which you are editor. a publicity hsndout
about your EARN, your chickens and your
su aNberries.
TIC nell with your farm, your chickens and
your Strawberries, Wallace. For two months
I have been calling at your office and tele-
phonlng TO ask you 10 declare whether YOU
ever We're a disciple or pupil of Nicholas
Rcerlrh, the leader of q mystical oriental
cult. T! know you had some relations with
him, hut l want to make you answer publicly
whether you were a pupil or disciple or
apostle. I have been trying 10 corner you to
make you answer whether you wrote Roerich
a lot OF idiotic letters and whether you re-
sarded him as God or a supernormal master
of mankind as many Of your associates in
the cult did, including your intimate friend
and official protege in the new deal govern
ment, Louis L. Horch. I want to pin you
down as to whether you ever called Roerich
your Dear Guru, meaning a teacher by divine
selection, whether you ever referred 10 Frank.
lin D. Roosevelt, variously, as the flaming
one. the mediocre one and the wavering one,
to Cordell Hull, the Secretary OK State in
those Gays, as the sour one, to Mrs. Roerich
as mother, to the British as the monkeys and
the Russians as the tigers and signed your
self "Galad'' or "Galahad' or &C."
This much is absolutely established already,
thai Horch was overheard for Roerich as a
spil itual master, he said so in his testimony
involving money which he had invested in
the big joss-house or lamasery on Riverside
drive. Sen. Robert F.. Wagner hung out there
now and again and Sol Bloom, who came on
to be chairman of foreign affairs in the lower
yT--. - oJ11}&. 1i,;.- 80
ccmmodations. These are only a few CT many
new dealers who messed around with your
old friend, the oriental master-mind. Some
of our gullibles may take Sol Blooms word
that he took no stock in Roerich's mystical
pretensions, but I don't believe him. I don't
be. ieve him. I don't believe him, because
your protege, Louie Horch, also told me that
his dish was culture and that he scoffed
at the ~esoteric philosophy. He thought he had
dltcbed me until I poked around in the court
records and found where he admitted that he
went tor the funny business. How do I know
Sol Boom is telling me the truth?
1 want to ask you, direct, if you ever said
tire protecting shield Of the great ones had
been helpful under trying conditions and ii
you old, to explain whom you meant by the
grea- ones? Did you ever mention an aware
ness Of the fra grance Of another world, the
rea. world. or say that, for the time being.
YOU must i've IN Ule OulcI WUIIQ dlu loh
over your mind and body as fit instruments
for the lord Of justice? If so, what were you
talking about, anyway? And did you, like
Louie Horch, whom you appointed TO a sue
ceesion of important. influential jobs in the
Departments Of Agriculture and ommerc
eventually snap out of a daze?
Wal ace, you are nailed on most counts.
You certainly did mess around with old
Roerich at the joss-house. You were seen
I4L1,~ Va, ia foil fnr unrnh ond arnnjnf |
him to all those jobs and Horch is on record
with a confession that he and others were
tald in a thrall by Roerich. Sol Bloom says
the o.o guru was a sort Of oriental evil-eye
Finkel. Sol knew just this much about hypno-
tisrn, learned as a carnival snowman more
than so years ago., that it was a good idea
never to let a hypnotist look you in the eye.
Therefore he never let Roerich draw a bead
on him. A hypnotist might make a fellow take
off his pants in public without knowing a
thing about it. They used to do 1t at the
street fairs. Did Roerich ever give you the
hocus pocus?
Old Charlie Nicholson, the pressagent OF
the democratic party, wrote that the goofy
guru letters which some Of the politicians at
t; 'huted to you were just silly, not dangerous.
Now l find that Charles brother, Albert, the
late scientist, was an honorary member OF
a Roerich society. Silly I grant these letters
were but dangerous too if a candidate for
vice president was silly enough to write them
and so cowardly and dishonest as to refuse
to acknowledge the spiritual beliefs which the
letters reflected. A man Of courage, and I
mean particularly the moral and spiritual
coura ge which your claque attributes to you,
might have acknowledged or denied the let
tiers.
l certainly have you dead to rights where
you organized an expedition to Mongolia for
Roerich, the guru, who wasn't even an
Amer. can citizen, paid for by us taxpayers,
ostensibly to hunt Cor grass seed. You can't
wigsle off that hook, Wallace. And, by the
wav, you never published an official report
on this expedition. Why not, Why didn't you
ever have the manhood to make public rep
araticn to the noted American botanist,
Knowles Ryerson, now assistant dean OF the
College of Agriculture, OF the University OF
California, whom you dismissed from the posi-
ton of chief of the bureau of plant industry
of the Department Of Agriculture, and Mac
.Mi1and and Stevens, whom you subordlnated
to your oriental friend on the expedition, and,
finally, reprimanded and recalled?
They were right all the time and you were
wrong. You weren't much OF a man about
that.
The crooked new deal fought to keep your
name out of the income tax case against your
old friend, Roerich, after you had repudiated
him, but didn't quite succeed.
At one point Horch testified, L do know
that Wallace gave Roerich "a, 500 to invest in
some cooperative bank"
A letter was handed to him and Horch
said: II do not know what G. stands eor in
this letter"
On a fine technically, the letter was ex-
clueed, but your friends couldn't quite keep
your rame out. Herbert Plaut, Roerich's Jaw
yer, said he intended to prove that GO in
this letter meant you. Henry Wallace, in the
secret name of "'Galad'' or "Galahad' by
which you were known to the cult. The new
deal didn't take the dare.
Never mind the chickens and the straw
berries. Wallace.
Answer the questions. If you don't ] will.