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IN REPLY, PLEASE REFER TO ee FILE No. zer(o/- (UO | OO : s VIJANZ 1948 299 ~ John Edgar Hoover on people in the entertainment field. He left the- United Stites Bepartment of Justice Federal Bireau of inuestigation 633 Federal Building Louisville, Kentucky November 22, 1947 L 1 : ' t - § 49 4 ee) Re or acre tame MeaRRe on Director, FgIPAt Re: HENRY A, WALLACE . Bgen. _.--..---.- | Mr. Gurneéa -..------- Dear Sirs Tir. Mobr w...------- . t Mr, Pennington. Under the Sponsorship of tne Southern Conference for Human Welfare, ; i Mr. Quinn Jamin... former Vice President Henry A. Vallace-spoke- to-approximately sixte hundred whites and negroes in the Armory at Louisville, Kentucky November 21, 1947, @fMr. Neugs......------ During his talk, it is reported that Wallace stated that the Cheirman of the Federal Communications Commission had been given "unsolicited" expensive or extensive (I could not ascertain exactly which word was used) reports prepared by the Federal Bureau of Investigation under inference that you were attempting to influence the licensing of radio es stations by the Federal Communications Commission through calling their a attention to persons broadcasting over those stations whose ideas did not conform to your own. He also referred to “thought police"; that is, the policing of the — thoughts of the people in this country, and placed the Federal Bureau of Investigation in that catagory. = ~SO>.) & ey JOf There was no mention made in the local press concerning these remarks, however, a great deal of space was given by the press to his talk. I am endeavoring to obtain discreetly a complete transcript of Mr. Wallace's #alk, which I will forward to the Bureau as being of possible interdst. £ fe Gon coin 3 INCLASSI FIED 4 BY, RY tbl , 4 CLA: y Ane . | lpr 9) spent age 7178 FF 3 aie plone 4 eid mas eee a HEREI Is u a : f y DATE_f-~