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Show : IFj5GLEIt: A-:Se0i. tig Wettbrook Pegler Released by WNU Features. TF I HADN'T come down wit! galloping buck-fever during mj nterview with Bubblehead Wallaci it his press conference in Phila lelphla, I would have been able t( round him up right there becaust )Id stupe just isn't bright. When he said to me that day, 'I never discuss anything with rp ff! Westbrook Pegler," I was going to say, J y$" , lace, that is not so X Pi' because, the Iasl ' V Wil time visaed yu 'mJH you discussed a i AZJ' very interesting t ; X?t j plan to build an eight-lane concrete L ' y '- highway from New Iu3w-Ms sift (itm. t-J York to Paris by PEGLER way ' of Alaska and Siberia." THAT WOULD HAVE SLOUGHED niEM BUT IT IS A FACT. It would have touched him off and when Bubblehead gives tongue you have got him. Yon can steer him with questions. But I blew up and lost the floor. Doris Fleeson and other -friends of his have said they knew all the time that he wrote the goofy Guru letters and I agree with them absolutely that he did but, If yon will excuse me, for a better reason. For example, in the letter ta "Dear Guru." dated March 12. 1933, where it says, "I have been thinking think-ing of you holding the casket the jacred, most precious casket" I know what that refers to. It refers re-fers to a painting of Old Nick. show, lng off the two-legged beard, wear Ing his little ding-bat Chinese caj and chow meln pajamas and holding hold-ing up a little box that was planted in the cornerstone of the lamasery at the dedication conniptions. It was full of conventional voodoo. Hail combings, policy slips, boss-fix pow-der pow-der and about 88 cents in .coins. Roerich's son. Vlatoslav, did a paint, ing of the old boy which hung in side the lamasery and Bubblehead used to drool with reverent awe al the sight of it tA . Then this lettei Await continues: "And 1 the have thought of the Stone new country goin forth to meet th seven stars .under the sign of thi three stars. And I have thought of the admonition, 'Await the stone.' We await the stone and we welcoms you again to this glorious land oi destiny, clouded though it may b with strange, fumbling fears." KNOW WHAT THIS IS ABOUT1 ASK PAPA. , Old Nick used to tell Henry bedtime bed-time stories coated with mysticism and. as one of the old hands of tht cultural circle said the other day, "Wallace was unbelievably simpla He was childish. He loved to usi code names for things." England and Japan were tigers and monkeys. Roosevelt the wavering one. Thi state department was the old house. He was Galahad. Such a dope! Roerlch had written a thing called "The Legend of th Stone" and Wallace had an emotional emo-tional hoe-down over that. Ha soaked up Roerich's patter and used It to suggest great savvy about oriental religions, like a broadcaster jabbering football jargon who never even went out for musical chairs. He also impressed the memberi -of the circle as a man hounded bj strange fears. He seemed fright ened of everything of nothing, al the time. Yet he would do the most stupid things and give himself real cause to worry over being fount" out. He seemed to think nothing a lifting official papers out of thi files of the government and sendinf them on to the lamasery. There wai one from Cordell Hull which I hel in my hand a few days ago. There was anothei Letter letter gtgned bj From Hirosl Salto, thi Saito Japanese ambassador, ambassa-dor, on the embassy's embas-sy's stationery, dated February It 1935, promising that the Harbuj newspaper Nichl-Nichl would laj off Old Nick. Bubblehead had sera Roerich to Manchuria and Mongolii and this paper, a Japanese propaganda propa-ganda show, was giving him th devil. So Wallace sneaked around by-passing the state department an asked Saito to turn off the heat as l favor to him. Saito's letter landed on the desk of a confidential asso cinte of old Roerich. Now it turm up to show what a blethering sa Henry , was and how guilty Roosevelt Roose-velt was In picking him to be vlci president for four years. HITLEa HIMSELF COULDVT HAVE CRIT ICIZED THAT SELECTION. And all bis letters to Roerich went through an Intermediary who found most of them tee Billy for serious treatment an therefore just made digests of anything that was coherent. The digests went to Roerich. The originals remained In New York. Now you know bow the letters came to be In one batch here. j |