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i . . t A As 7 A A ‘Action on Comming ts. an TT : Bu bau: ° Purge’ ‘Early | in: ‘Roose It ; Administration Recalled To THE Eprror oF THE New Yore Tres: ‘In the Aug. 24 issue of THE TIMES, “on Page 10, in'a carry-over story from | Page 1, ‘a dispatch datelined ‘Washing: ton says: — . “The first known penetration was & Communist cell in the Agricultural Ad- justment Administration, which, under Henry A’Wallace, Secretary of Agri- -culture in the Nineteen Thirties, set up and directed the first farm programs under the Administration of President. Franklin D. Roosevelt, *.%% .. ee “It also included,” the report said, “# * * and the late Harold Ware.” Knowing how absolutely -fair Tae NEW YORK: TIMES is, and how anxious it is to print all the facts: available, I submit the following: First, the Harold Ware referred te never was in the United:States Depart- ment of Agriculture while I-was Sec- a j retary. This man wag on the United _ Bi mare mM aks a TATE: } | States Department “of Agriculture roll ids Sr while the Agricultural Secretaries : _chosen by Coolidge and Hoover were in -egntrol. It was this ‘man, according to. it timony,. who organized the cell ¢f Yop WS G 5 ap tlle first place. Second, a very short time after t Soll 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 thiéy were Communists until ‘Lee Pressman 50 testified more than ten years later, .I t fired them because I disagreed with ie 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 . . -gingled me out by name in connection’ with the Ware. cell when Ware never served under me and I got rid of most of the AAA members of the. Ware cell not@long after. the cell was formed, The|Senate report recognizes that ¢he A ge T/ a § £ _ 4 _ [AA got rid of these men in e ly '193854.and does. not mention me fby name, . HA. WALLACH South Salem, N. Y, Aug. 26, 1053. Qt: CLIPPING FROM THE yh. ¥, TIMES 2 DATED ere ceenceee ee FORM. A RE TH A WV, mala ts ASIAN ‘ x ; NP i oe