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eS Polen 3 E.” A. ‘Tamm. Mr. : Clegg: Mr. Coffey” Mr. ‘Glavipt” 0 HFORMATON nn CONTE WEREGHIS UNCLASSIRED se BATES/Z</6=— BY st te Bates pe : / ane OGOS Madison Square Garden, ~ Miss Gandy _ | September 12, 1946 oe — September 30, 196 A Mr. Carson. Mr. Egan yy Mr. Gurnea Mr. Hendon ‘ aan Mr. Pennington__ EMORANDUM FOR THE DIRECTOR \ i, “confidential informant, b7D peeeeivaniteisrertr eo advised that on September 1, 1946, Had Sition, Trade Union Director of the Communist Party in New York State, advised sever. cal members of the Communist Party, includ~- |. ing the informant, that the speech given by Secretary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace | was extemporaneous and not the prepared one which had previously been read and approved by President Truman. Simon stated that when Hat lace began his speech he started to n qd a copy_o Wa e's ed speech. and that it was entirel different from the speech acme ‘giyen by, Wallace. eS 7 a nivision att de d the above rally” at Madison - Square ¢ rden,. and a paragraph - ‘from his aoc as: follows: oo _ Ss : (EP: WLTE A nad > then “his > (Wallace's) first unfavorag : Ris ia Russia drdw - ~ °” . hisses, Wallace apparently became_uofery ae. it igmy, dmpepsgign that. ‘he thert ‘departed from his prepared text % ofaid id a dra sia Tre ae hoe un favorable‘ audience reaction. The remainder , speech was chara¢ erized __ by. extrene pussyfooting, | which left the aud onogRaen, as. to. ‘what he* ~~ -actually meant. Many of the comrads were so ‘@nfused by his remarks ‘that they did not know whether bt appiaud or. hiss. ‘Qn more than one occasion his comments were simultaneously hissed and applauded. wallace urged, for example, independence ‘for Indonesia and Greece, as well as for Polarid and Bulgaria. This was expressed in such a manner that the comrads thought: he was setting up Bulgaria and Poland as -examples for the independence of the other two countries. They applauded, of. course,’ but Wallace made no attempt to clarify. his remarks." The informant further. stated that most of Wallace's speech was reported ‘accurately in the New York Times newspaper. Action: The above is 5 being furnished for your information. . Respectfully,