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" Office Memorandum + vowrrep STATES GO% To : The Director \ FROM : D. Me Ladd a , GP supyecr: Henry a@ WALLACE INTERNAL SECURITY - C_ pase Gendy oe Your attention is directed to Henry Wallace's column on page 1 of the March 8, /1948, issue of the/*iféw Republic," and to the attached clipping ~~~ from page of SPM" newspaper for Friday, March 5, 1948, in which it is st by Wallace that} he is organizing t"'Freedom League" to combat "the subtle terrorism" that he claims is being spread through the country by the Fede Bureau of Investigation and the Immigration and Naturalization Servicg? Wallace calls on “everyone who has a specific instance of how the federal government or businessmen have abridged our freedom to write in to (fia the Freedom League at Room 105, 0 East Forty-ninth Street, New York 17" (the offices of the "New Republic}. Wallace continues: ", . . » Give the name of the man who put pressure on you or who ' asked an un-American question. _ _ epid the investigator ask whether you.read the 'New Republic,’ F the ‘Nation,’ 'PM' or 'Reader's Scope'? Did he ask if you kmew _ ;-. . a Henry Wallace or Glen Taylor or Jo Davidson or Albert Einstein? > ~ - What other questions were asked designed to make you feel : eek like a criminal if you entertained a progressive idea or knew 7: a progressive American?" ; vm - ACTIONS 9 St . | None. This is for your information. We will, hemor keep you . advised concerning. any further items regarding the Freedom gues. | e’, adi petastment og) ode tae aa PS. PROT PEDRY ATTACEES ER | Len HTZ ““pricanpg MAR 81 1948 - ~ ENDEXED. _ oy Sh TONTANED assirit