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(Rattling about at the back of my mind, a brief vignette about another world, with vagueness and uncertainty being the order of the day. C'est la vie.)




H. Agard Wallace (AAUP)
April - October 1947

"The Principled Farmer of the People"
The ascent of H. Agard Wallace to the highest office in the Union was not an expected event. Though the health of the General Secretary had been waning for some time, Secretary Hull's sudden death from onset coronary in 1947 triggered a brief succession crisis, as Party members and others within the Presidium of the Union met to determine who would be Hull's successor.

That man was Secretary of Agriculture, H. Agard Wallace, a man often touted by Hull and other party leaders as a "principled and good-hearted man, with a belly of revolutionary fire". Wallace did not accept a permanent position as General Secretary, and instead insisted his position was entirely temporary and provisional--he wanted to see a man of the People brought to the highest position in all the land, and refused to accept anything other than that.

Through his six-month term as General Secretary, Wallace presided over the final peace conclusions that his predecessor had begun. While the Union had remained out of the conflict in Europe that was hemorrhaging lives and innocents, they had been drawn into a war with the Heavenly State, the gargantuan 800-pound gorilla in the room that had been slowly sweeping up people and resources as their endless wars of religious passion brought them to control just enough to threaten the peace.

While General Secretary Hull had lead through war, General Secretary Wallace would set the peace. In the Treaty of Kyoto, the Heavenly State was dissolved, replaced by a number of provisional governments that, in time, would evolve into proper social democracies capable of providing for their people; the same people whom had been reduced to serfdom and slavery to cater to the Heavenly Messiah's whims and wishes.

With Europe on the mind, and the threat of the instability in another land seeding instability at home, Wallace resigned his commission as General Secretary on October 15th, 1947, immediately demanding that they appoint a new man who would be more willing to do what was necessary to ascertain the security of the Union.

As the Presidium assembled again to decide their leader, Wallace retired to a life of agriculture in South Salem, New York, where he would in turn, revolutionize agricultural practices both at home, and abroad, with his breed of chickens ('Wallace chickens') forming the majority of globally traded and domestically traded chickens.

He would later die in 1964, and be given a grand state funeral and the post-humous Order of Columbia by public decision of the Presidium and the New York Council.​
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