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coma swan tame a pene megane Og Boot ve oe Fy AA ‘Action on Communi ts ‘To tux Eprror or THE New York Trues: Los vane ‘ In the Aug. 24 issue of THE TIMES, . : : cone! “on Page 10, in a carry-over story from ' sci it ‘Page 1, a dispatch datelined Washing: . ee ton says: . “The first known penetration was a Communist cell in the Agricultural Ad- ‘justment | Administration, which, under ‘Henry APWallace, Secretary of Agri- -culture in Uie-Nieteen Thirties, set up -and directed the first farm programs under the Administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, * * * . *. “It also included,” the report said, - ““@ © © and the late Harold Ware.” Knowing how absolutely -fair Tams ;NEW YORK TIMES is, and how anxious it is to print all the facts available, I -submit the following: . ' First, the Harold Ware Yreferred to ‘never was in the United States Depart- © "ment of Agriculture while I was Sec ‘retary. This man wag on the United Ai PIAA OM CONTAR wai States Department of Agriculture roll AUS A, ? while the Agricultural Secretaries remaosae is yee er ee Ire chosen by Coolidge and Hoover were in ti vse? hg dad Reinide idea rieD _ egntrol. It was this man, according to. timony, who organized the cell ¢n i ; ASST ? ie BYsprecsch: e first place. Second, a very short time after RAaAl30B céll was organized in the AAA. of : “United States Department of Agricul- - ‘ture I fired some of the members and - most of the rest left as a result of the “celebrated purge which took place in — early 1935. No one knew they were. Communists until Lee Pressman s0 ~ ‘testified more than ten years later. I ; i "fired them because I disagreed with j the policies they advocated and felt | there could not be a satisfactory re-' ‘lationship between the Department and _ the Congress until they left. . ’ It is difficult to see why the dispatch : -singled me out by name in connection swith the Ware cell when Ware never served under me and I got rid of most of the AAA members of the Ware cell ie sd ‘not@long after the cell was formed, The|Senate report recognizes that ¢he b a W/ 7 65 -A [AA got rid of these men in e@rly - "1935 and does, not mention me {by he ys 2 ‘name. . . HL. A. WALLA 7 — —— 5 a = Bouth Salem, N. ¥. Aug. 26, 3053, : Nor yee = =D ieee . Ae SOPU) ee CLIPPING FROM THE 191 0c. 211959 xh. Y. TIMES _ Ale STS 2 - | oo —_——— 2 Son te cone rat rE CRT PR TT Ey a eves Ginette get mae acest earn pars