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é ° RA STANDARD FORM NO. 64 Office Memorandum - UNITED st : Director, FBI . DATE: Mr. Tracy .----- ++---" % SAC, Boston Mr. Egan..------—--- voyuer PLL NFORUATION CONTAINED === SUBJECT: HENRY A. WALLACE enEP x0" f . Mr, Harbo .---0--2-- INFORMATION covcenamis 1 cH NO AS HF pie met <° 1] Mr. Pennington -.--- ME sdelte BYSP/CSLT The Boston Globe on sow LS 1947, carried the follqwixee? soseonerens local news item: ‘223 sae) sy o Gang = "y. S. Is Drifting Into 'Police State,! Wallace Says Here or "A trapid drift' towards a police state has been evident in this country during the past six months, former Vice President Henry A. Wallace told reporters here last night during a half- hour layover at Logan Airport on his air journey to Palestine. “Commmism, he declared, ig no threat whatsoever to Americae It is being used, he said, merely as a weapon for politi& purposes. ; "'England has managed to preserve its civil liberties more than we have since the war,' Wallace said. "tIn this country, we are in almost the same situation that existed when the Alien and Sedition Act was passed in 1789. Ltt — "An alleged probe of the Treasury Department involving the dragging of past and present treasury officials from their beds by FBI agents, was cited by Wallace as evidence for the drift to the 'police state.' "tI suppose these treasury workers are supposed to be helping Russia,’ said the former Vice President sarcastic “77 "Morgenthau "Worried? FECOR Dy Gd 2 - —/ / DE EH "Wallace said he had talked is; ee ee of | the freasury, Morgenthau on the Phe ae L2OCt 23 Bé%eenthau WAS ‘worried | about it, although he “had not been questioned | peréchalyy. “ Chey ‘ "Wallaea, who recently completed a vigorous cross-country spealing tour, is bound for Palestine for a first-hand investiga~ _ tion of thé situation there. His New York-to-Cairo TWA Starliner Pa - le , 7 K ‘ ¥ a+] COPIES pEsTROYED “ ag S8hGV 4 BA 20.6 Nov 1 ih 'On ~ Se eee a