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Commnist Political Association and stated she was working with a group at the Carlton Hotel coordinating the material for the Senate fight on the Wallace isme. - She also invited Haddock to attend the same necting mentioned above. On the evening of Jamary 1, 1945, Vice President Henry A. Wallace was the guest news commentator on the program of Johannes Steel. It is to be noted “that Johannes. Steel was formerly a close associate of well-known Buropean Commnists, and allegedly received the majority of his inside information on Buropean political developments through an underground commmications system with Wili Muenzenberg, the Soviet agent in charge of Western Burope prior to his assassination. Johannes Steel has followed "party line" to a considerable degree in his news analyses. His latest radio sponsor is the Hlectronic Corporation of America. The Electronic Corporation of America is a concern manufacturing | electronic devices for the Army and the Navy, the president of which is Sanuel J. Novick, a heavy contributor to Comminist controlled organizations and a close contact of Arthur Alexandrovich Adams, Soviet espionage agent who has used the Electronic Corporation of America asa business cover for his espionage activities. . Doring the course of this broadcast, Wallace stated that the United States mst think more about killing Germans and less about postwar problems. He stated that the time for boundary talke (apparently referring to the Polish question) was not now. He stated that the anty of the United States was to prepare for full postwar employment. He further stated "the common man mst educate and organize himself for political and economic responsibility in action, but even more important, he mst go beyond the material L aspects of power and ask what are the supreme hnman values." Contacts with Negro Communist Controlled Organizations and Individuals 4s noted above, Ferdinand C. Smith, a Negro alien, allegedly had dinner with Wallace during the period of time he was Vice President of the United Btates in the company of Frederick "Blackie" Myers and Joseph Curran. _ decording to an article which appeared in the michigan Chronicle,* a Negro newspaper, Wellace was a sponsor for a win-the-war rally held in August, 1942, by the Negro Youth Council for Victory and Democracy in Detroit, Michigan. Wallace sent his personal endorsement of this rally. An article which appeared in the "People's Voice," a Negro Commanist- controlled publication in New York City, on September 2, 1944, carried this head- line: "Henry A. Wallace takes ‘People's Voice* staff by surprise." The article continued with a statement that Wallace walked into the "People's Yoice" offices the previous Monday afternoon, unannounced, for a friendly chat with his close friend Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., a Congressional candidate who was away on vacation at that time. It further remarked that Wallace asked Powell to report to him on what he considered employment conditions in postwar Harlem would be. It is to be noted that Powell was elected to Congress during the recent elections and it is now that he has closely associated with the members of the Communist Political Association. |