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Wallace was selected as minber two on the Negro honor roll published by the "Chicago Defender," a Negro publication subject to considerable Oommmnist — influence, for the year 1943. Le . . Public earances and Speeches Before Pro-Commnist or Pro-Soviet Groups Volume No. 7 of the Dies Committee Reports, page 4483, states that Wallace gave the opening speech before the International Congress of American Democracy as well as the Consumers’ National Federation in 1939. It is to be noted that beth of these groups are considered as subject to Communist control. On May 8, 1942, in New York City, he addressed the gecond annual congress of the Free World Association. ‘This speech has been entitled, "The Price of Free World Victory," and was later printed and published by the Office of War Inforna- tion ani disseminated by Government frank. During the course of this speech, Wallace made the statement: "Some have spoken of the ‘American century.' I say that the century on which we are entering, the century which will come out of this war, can and mst be the century of the common man." This phrase, "the century of. the common man," and excerpts from Wallace's speech have received considerable ‘publicity throughont the Commnist-controlled press. During this same speech Wallace referred to the various wars which have been fought during the course of history as revolutions, stating: "The march of freedom of the past 150 years has been a long drawn-out people's revolution." He further stated that the people's revolution aims at peace and not at violence and the people at the present time are on the march toward even fuller freedom than the most fortunate peoples of the earth have hitherto enjoyed. He stated that the ae people's revolution of the past 150 years has not been completed either here in the oe United States or in any other nation in the world and that this revolution cannot = stop until freedom from want has actually been attained. Wallace further stated: "The people's revolution is on the march and the devil and all his angels cannot prevail against it. , The above-mentioned speech was the theme of a dinner sponsored by the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee at the Astor Hotel on October 27, 1942, sponsored almost in its entirety by known Communists. This dinner was part of a drive to free anti-Fascist fighters held in Vichy, France, who had served in the Loyalist Forces during the Spanish Civil War. On Noverber 8, 1942, Wallace was the principal speaker before a mass meeting held in Madison Square Garden by the Congress of American-Soviet Friendship. His address was entitled, "Tribute to Enssia.® Wallace praised the Soviet Union, stating 1f Russia can contime the progress she has made in the last twenty years, in the next twenty she will surpass the United States. This speech was lat printed and a foreverd by Corliss Lamont added and it was sold in all Co bookstores. | _ t