A
very odd movement has developed just weeks after, my boss, President Henry A. Wallace was sworn into
office. Several nuts have
taken to the radio and lecture halls leading a crusade that H.A. is not a U.S.
citizen, but a Soviet plant. Based
on this lie, they are calling for his removal as President.
They
claim that he does not have a valid birth certificate and secretly speaks
Russian. The fact is that H.A. was born on his family’s farm without the help of a doctor or even midwife, and
he does indeed know Russian and a couple other languages. He did not obtain a birth certificate
until well into his adult years. They also believe that H.A.’s trip to
Russia and China in the Spring of 1944 was to receive orders from his Communist
masters and they infer that he is responsible for F.D.R.’s death. This is an insane conspiracy story. The fact that F.D.R. sent H.A. on the trip never is mentioned and that the trip almost cost H.A. the Vice
Presidency because he was not in the States to defend himself against the
forces trying to remove him from the ticket. I don’t know what brew they are adding to their
morning tea or coffee, but it is making them crazy.
But
saying they are crazy is too easy an answer. This is an organized and complex campaign. Crazy people don’t organize meetings
and pay for radio and newspaper space to promote them. Who is recruiting these people? Who is writing the script for them? Who
is paying them and their bookers to get them on the radio and in lecture halls
around the country? That is the
real mystery and conspiracy! As
further proof, they say H.A.’s middle name is Russian, “Agard” – it is really
from Horace Agard a Methodist minister relative of H.A.’s mother. But I guess old Horace could be a
Soviet plant too – assuming these nuts believe that there really was a Horace
Agard!
Friends,
I know Communists and I can assure you that H.A. is not one. A progressive democrat yes – a Communist
definitely not! I don’t even think
the Socialist Party would have him.
However, for people like this there is no distinction between liberals,
communists, socialists, or anarchists – we are just lumped together as the Red
Menace. Sadly, the members of
these various groups do recognize the differences and spend the vast majority
of their time attacking each other rather than working together to bring
positive change to the nation.
H.A.
is ignoring this silly sideshow.
We
have more important things to do – the war in Europe is over! However, I am sorry that F.D.R. did not live to
see this day. Sadly, as one war
ends forces are trying to spark another – and we haven’t defeated the Japanese
yet. Churchill is part of this
movement. He sent us a telegraph
just four days after V-E Day that stated, “An iron curtain is drawn down upon
their” meaning the Soviet’s “front.
We do not know what is going on behind.” To try to dispel these fears H.A. sent Henry Hopkins [key
foreign policy advisor - actually lives in the White House -AS] to Moscow to meet with Stalin and
sustain relations. Our ambassador to the Soviet Union, Averell
Harriman, seems to be moving to Churchill's side. Harriman, who previously was supportive of the Soviet Union, changed his stance and he even
opposes the Soviet’s request of a $6 billion loan to help rehabilitate the
war-ravaged nation. H.A. overruled him. Fortunately,
our military, following the accords made at Teheran and Yalta, are cooperating fully
and peacefully with the Soviet military on matters of strategy and occupation. The U.S. military leaders understand that Soviet assistance is needed in the war against Japan. They see no advantage to alienate the
Soviets at the moment of victory in Europe.
H.A.
had to reprimand Nelson Rockefeller, the State Department’s top man on Latin
American, who wanted Argentina to be admitted into the UN. H.A. correctly opposed this because
Argentina’s government had been supportive of the Axis powers throughout the
war. H.A. believes that elements
of the State Department wanted to build a solid anti-Soviet bloc of nations
using Latin America and Great Britain and its colonial states at the UN. H.A. fears that if such a coalition is
formed the Soviets would find themselves outvoted again and again in the
Assembly, and the Soviet Union would not trust, and then not work with, the
world organization to ensure a peaceful future.
With the conflict over in Europe and moving to a successful completion in the Pacific, I fear that the war-mongers will not allow us to give peace a chance. They have found their new enemy. Do they want perpetual conflict? Surely, the profit of war does not trump the potential wealth of peace.
© 2012 Ron Millar
