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re I fi ‘Office “Memorandum * UNITED stabes GOVE 3 ; Director, FBI . DATE: Oct * SAC, Bost . - Bganeeceeeeee | - soipeen Q ALLINFORMATION CONTAINED om SUBJECT: IENRY A. WALLACE peor eo [ry <Hlarbo -eveeeeeee INFOREATION CONCERNING $** in > 8 UROLAS. FI 1 [ie wee mem | The Boston Globe on ooetell ES 1947, carried the follqWirtesse | local news item: 22630 3 sa Ge op "U. S. Is Drifting Into 'Police State,! Wallace Says Here "A trapid drift! towards a police state has been evident Soran me, ~ > in this country during the past six thoviths, former Vice Prestdent Henry A. Wallace told reporters here last night during a half- hour layover at Logan Airport on his air journey to Palestine. "Communism, he declared, is no threat whatsoever to ‘Ail America. It is being used, he said, merely as a weapon for politidggs purposes. "tEngland 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. Yuatt{_— SSS "An alleged probe of the Treasury Department involving the dragging of past and present treasury officials from their beds by FSI agents, was cited by Wallace as evidence for the drift to the 'police state.! "tT suppose these treasury workers are supposed to be helping Russia,’ said the former Vice President sarcastically. "Morgenthau 'Vorriedt ORD Ly \ Geo Lf Tf / f S-77 ~ "Yallace said he had talked witifornd®secrBta ry of the Brgasury, Morgenthau on the proegac at tas 4¥#penthau was woHhted| jpbout it, although he d not been questioned Perscpa ty ram : ‘a ; "Wal lads, who recently completed a vigorous cross-country speaking ‘your, is bound for Palestine for a first-hand investiga~ tion of thé’ situation, there. His New York-to-Sairo TNA Starliner ' £ ) Ygr me . ‘be, < Rte COPIES DESTROYED x pe 5 NOV E 1964 “9, “~ 20 as