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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1948.

HENRY WALLACE DENIES HE IS A COMMUNIST

BY DOUGLAS LARSEN

ENRY Agard Wallace says he wants to change his present self-employed job as farmer-geneticist-writer for the Presidency of the United States because of his "desire for World Peace."

Those are the four words the Third Party (or Progressive Party) candidate, probably one of the most controversial per- sonalities in U. S. politics today, put down on an application for Federal

his employment as "reason for desiring to change" positions.

Without skipping a dotted line, Wallace filled out "Stanrlard Form 57" at the request of NEA Service to provide a sight on the life and of the man who calls Independent candidate.

unique in- philosophy himself the

Govern- hopeful

"Form 57" Is the U.S. ment blank which every Federal employee must All oul when he applies for a job. It la scientifically designed to try to establish whether the applicant has the necessary experience, education, personality. cic.. for the job in question.

It also contains the most rigidly- worded loyalty questions which regard- can be asked of a person ing affiliation with the Commus- Ist Porly

un-American Iny group.

BY

or

Flat Repudiation

Y checking the "no" column be- side these loyalty questions. the

Nattest Wallace maken

pudiation of any Communist Bliation which he

-

It-

on record.

he is or ever

bus

has ever put usks if One question

been

样

raem-

ber. The other asks in highly legal language whether he is or was a "member of or associated with

any organisation approving the commission of neta fo deny other persons

rights under of the United the Constitution States..

Not brought

their

out on Form are the facts that Henry Wallace

or drink. doesn't smoke

father was Secretary culture under President and that

connection

57

that his of Agri- Harding,

he claims no although

with

Communist the Party. his most ardent for the Presidency ist Party members

supporters

are Commun-

Federal application from shows with Wallace (above. at six, sinter Annabelle) was born Oc tober 9, 1888. Signature радо (right) explains his resignation Commerce. of Secretary Check marks (below) are his answers to loyalty rection of "Form 57."

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STANDING & RITH $7-BUN ULIVIL LAKIET COMMISSIEW

APPLICATION FOR FEDERAL EMPLOYMENT

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Top of first page of "Form 57"(above) Henry Wallace filled out indicates his decision actually to run for President was roado last AS "farmor-genu- Decrmeni 29. He sted his persent posllion tloist-Writer." his invention as hybrid corn (like the car la held during a speech, righi, in Pittafeld, Mass., in 1047).

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the philosophy and program, for.

answere applyi

peace.....Which I had aspouses__.......... then and non. Ma...opposed....... to...their...Impractical...get tough!

..policy...

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Before signing this application clerk ock Use for make sure that you have answered ALL questions correctly.

CERTIFY that the statements made by me in the application are true, complete, and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief, and are made in good faith, Palve statement on this application is punishable by Law (U. S. Code, Tiitet, Bection 80).

INDICATE "YES" OR "NO" ANSWER BY FLACING “X” IN TROPER COLUMN

23. MAY SHODINY ST MADE OF YOUR PACCENT EMPLOYER REGARDING YOUR CHARACTER, QUALIFICATIONS, ETC.?--------------------------------- 26. ARE YOU A CITIZEN OF OR DO YOU OWE ALLEGIANCE TO THE UNITED

27, ARE YOU NOW OR HAVE YOU EVER BEEN, A MEMBER OF THE COMMUNIST PARTT, US A OR ANY COMMUNIST ORGANIZATION.......

21. ARE YOU NOW, ON HAVE YOU EVER DEEN, A MEMBER OF A FASCIST ORGAN.

29. APE TOUNJW, OR HAVE YOU EVER BEEN, A MEMBER OF ANY ORGANIZATION, ASSOCIATION, MOYEMENT, GROUP, OR COMBINATION OF PERSONS WHICH AD VOCATES THE OVERTHROW OF OUR CONSTITUTIONAL FORM OF GOVERNMENT, ON OF AN ORGANIZATION, ASSOCIATION, MOVEMENT, GROUP, ON COMBINATION OF PERSONS WHICH HAS ADOPTED A POLICY OF ADVOCATING OR APPROVING THE COMMISSION OF ACTS OF FORCE DA VIOLENCE TO DENY OTHER PLÄSONG THEIR RIGHTS UNDER THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES ON OF STIK. ING TO ALTER THE FORM OF GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATESOY UNCON. STITUTIONAL MEANST..................PAN ----D

Question the rest and

of the extreme left-wing groups in America.

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X

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scrv- form misconduct or unsatisfactory No. 31 on the

To that been dis ice from any position?" asks: "Have you ever

for Wallsee answers: resign, charged, or forced to

THE JUNGLE

STALKS

SINGAPORE. RY

BECAUSE 5,000

Chinese

פיי

SIGNATURE OF APPLICANT & Ha Wallace...

El formale,

anneme in INK (one given name, initial en initial, they ke Lee) zurlu, Mise or Båra med if married UM VRUT SWR QYTn some ne ušiti. 31

Do the hatest Be

s Secretary resigned Commerce at the request President Truman in Sept., after making n speech eign policy

fumself

of "pubile speaking experience." Wal- of lace writes:

1946, on for- Truman

Mr. which hind approved line

Byrnes, and others. resignation on the

"As Editor of Wallace's Farmer,

by campaigning for Al Smith in 1028; 05 Secretary of Agriculture, as

line. The Secretary of State, Mr. Vice Presidential candidate, as foreck my Vice President, in 1944 campaign, grounds that

no Editor of the New Republic, the philosophy and programme

as Presidential candidate, I have peace which I had espoused

had extensive public speaking ex- and now

opposed to their

perience." Impractical 'get tough policy."

was

for then

any

nsks: "List Question 21

14 Under "writings" he lists

include a statistical special skills you possess and ma- books. They

can study which he did in 1913 chines and equipment you use."

"Comptometer" Is his an- "Correlations swer. He is also known to be quite culations, skilled with a boomerang but he published apparently didn't think pertinent.

Question No. 23 gives the cant a chance to elaborate

and

called

Cal-

Jobs"

Machine Million "Sixty in 1945 and "Whose in 1948. published it was Constitution,"

Under "inventions" he Usts "Hy brid Seed Corn." This invention

revolutionised appli- has actually on his growing in the United States by getting each aere to produce more

TERROR THAT

ACROSS MALAYA

•

RONALD BAXTER

The rest strike simultaneously ot Japs could do little against The them. and the Japs were the rubber storehouses, labourers' quar- greatest jungle fighters in the world. ters (killing the key rubber tappers), Delegates from the Anti-Japanese omees, and manager's bungalow.

in the London Ambushes are sel Army marched

parties. victory parade.

corn.

corn

Describing his job as Secretory

Commerce

under President Truman, he writes in part:

"I placed the weight of my ef- forts on the drawing up of a Full Employment Bill which was passed by the Congress and which But the

Coun- Malays fear Chineso established the President's enterprise and the danger of Chinese cil of Economic Advisers." dominance. If the political becomes a Malay-Chinese war, only

force can

Malaya's

mass

economy.

Save

wir

Job In Cabinet

job As his Agriculture;

Secretary of

Communists with British amall arms are today creeping through the Malayan jungles,

British rule favours the Malay the people of Britain may have

to trup relief sultans despite the collaboration of their rations cut and may have

some of thera with the Japs and to work-even harder to exist.

In tenminster the Reds are the fact that the. Malays are not "My primary job as Secretary of was to facilitate" the Their leaders planned to end heading back to the jungle, leaving nearly so politically conscious as the Agriculture

of American farmers Rubber planters and Un miners

riddled bodies, Chinese.

contributed to recovery This has American British rule in Malaya by stopping burning buildings,

from the drastic effects of the '29 last year cerned more

Toward depression.

this dollars than any home industry, all trade, and so their organisation and a legend of ruthless emelency Chinese unrest.

end, I named today the Malayan which will prend for miles around.

Though there is a Legislative

launched an emergency programme The proceeds went into the Empire is

In People's Anti-British Army.

Council in Kuala Lumpur, not one which provided vital part

subsidies for tar- pool and played a

OUR MEN

is member

elected. All Arc and

mers against the effects of over- staying off economic collapse in

They are split into groups

production, loans and other depart- Britain.

commands. They have n pioneer Remember that Malaya is the size nominated by the authorities.

"How can we fight for democracy ment aid for the rehabilitation of 10 build camps, battle of England, that four-fifths is wild section

jungle and that good reads are few, when there is no democracy?" one millions of small farmers, establish- The ment of food programme for the schools, and parade grounds.

chil- This means that the few thousand Chinese anti-Red asked me. British troops so far in action-main British blunder was made a unemployed and for school

Police chiefs, foreseeing dren based on the use of over-pro- Seaforths, Devons, King's Own year ago.

with the Communists, Yorkshire Light Infantry, and trouble

advised the Government to sanction artillerymen-have had to be split adv up into small groups based on the banishment of suspected ring-

lenders. villages and estates, strangers in on The Government refused, and in Orient, Iowa, October 9. 1808.

But today, after three months of siege, arson, and murder, many planters are nearing the end of their tether.

MANY LEAVE Production is dwindling, Young assistants seem to be seeking less dangerous Jobs in other industries. Old-timers going on leave say they will not come back.

They have a foraging section to terrorise formers for rice, and a political section to whip up hate against the British

and Kuomintang (the Chiang Kai-shek party).

JUNGLE GREEN

the

They wear Jungle green uniforms and pulices kept repaired by arc estate bosses Most of the sticking it out, working with a gun women helpers; they have surcaps

the handy in

morning, training with three five-pointed stars. trusted workers to use fireanns

calute In the afternoon, and often gulding

ralding pollee at night. And their Ast. wives wall in their bungalows,

The number of rebels, 5,000, does not sound a lot, but they will give the Guards and Hussars no big a headache as any German Army unit,

of

A

They

with the

clenched

The Guards will be useless, except us morale builders, unless they get thorough training in specialised warfare, in which the battle can be won by spotting a bandit spy dis-

guised as an estate worker.

Cleverly led, disciplined, with an

Here is a typical bandit operation animal-like knowledge of the terrain, they have fifth columnists against an estate:-

First, plain clothes reconnaissance In nearly every hamlet throughout the length and breadth the men go out to a village to probe

and

Icek out the

the ground country.

defences.

Then the bandits split up inlo five or six groups, huddle in the Most terrorists were in the war- jungle;, and wait for down. time Communistic Malaydn People's One group cuts the phone wires Anti-Japanese Army, who helped to the estate, another makes.

attack on the the British and were dropped arms diversionary from the air.

BEAT JAPS

NANCY

police station.

'N' That's a Different Story

HERE'S SOME BREAD?

AND SOUP AND A

QUARTER ---

I LIKE TO

HELP A POOR

WIDOW

HMM--- SHE ACTED VERY STRANGE ABOUT IT

a

local

A

allen

knowing land, hardly Chinese tqualter settlement frem a Malay village.

duced commodities."

The standard section of his "Form 57" reveals that he was born:

South now the ringleaders are fighting. His present residence is

York. His "height while today hundreds of innocent Salem, New

are people

being jailed under without shoes" is five feet, 10 and He weighs 100 pounds.

He attended West Des emergency regulations, facing two one-half inches.

Moines. Towa, High School, got his years' prison without trial.

B.S. degree

from in 1910

Iowa THE 'SICHTS'

subjects State College. His major

hus- were agriculture and animal

Many were called up only in the past two years, and have hitherto been almost useless in jungle war fare where experience counts most. by side with the Guards and Side the Hussars will be the Malay Police It is a tough job for the Guards, and troops-brave and loyal men but there will be some bright mo-bandry. He holds eight other hon- who bore the brunt of the initial mente, too,,when they are on leave orary degrees from other colleges.

They will Ret campaign about 6,000 Gurkhas and

seven-courso dinner, Including many

"excellently, Ife reads Spanish

and understands volunteered as special constables chicken, for under five shillings, all speaks it "good"" and during early training shot each the best cigarettes they can smoke it "good." He reads Russian, Ger- "fair." He has at less than hall the price in mon and French other fairly often.

21 foreign beer from all vislied

countries for England, the finest

He has .over the world, with unrationed "business and education."

also bad "only seven hours solo" dresses to send home to their girl

ying but doesn't have a licence.. friends.

in Singapore. who thousands of villagers

TWO RACES Politically, there are big dangers, with the risk of the British having to keep a big permanent garrison, like the Dutch in the East Indies.

two The

races.

main reason concerns

In a hundred years the Chinese have grown to about half of the five million population, playing a big purt in developing backward

country.

DIDN'T YOU TELL ME THE WIDOW

IN THAT HOUSE WAS BROKE ?

1

As his three references he gives Jorlah Gitt, publisher. York Ga- zette and Dally, York, Pennsylvania;: Charles Howard, Des Moines,

There are giant amusement parks, with beautiful Asintic girls 03 dance partners at sixpence a time, bananas, plncapples, and coconuts. The cheapest cinema seat is 40, Ed.,

But Singapore's biggest club hos Town, attorney; and Albert Fitz- union president chosen this time to announce that, In gerald, à trade future, British "other ranks" will not from Lynn, Massachusetts.--(NEA.

(Service).

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By Ernie Bushmiller

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