◆ SpookStack

|Wallace Say: ys Minneapolis, Oct. 30 ay -—Henry} F “Certainly Secretary Byrnes did id not Admiral Halsey to Bete wi Navy . would go ‘wherever it damned pleased. y “Tt is hard to believe that Sec- ' Byrnes is pressing for out- right U. S. ownership and fortifica- . ition of the Rykuku Islands in such|: way as to be a definite and dis-|: tinct threat to the free access to|" |A. Wallace, former Vice President J and Cabinet member, charged to-} night that Secretary of State James F. Byrnes has been “needled” into risking war with Russia by Senator|% Arthur H. Vandenberg and the P War and Navy Departments. 8 | In a speech prepared for delivery! fa at a political rally for Democratiec-/ Farmer - Labor candidates here, ‘| Wallace said he “refused to believe : "that Secretary Byrnes is happy® : the seas by the Russians from their only warm-water _ Pacific port.” : reapers Problem More Co: licated F - The military ssarily think and prepare to met the “next pos-|: sible enemy,” Wallace said, while the State Dep ent plans for peaceful relations. “I refuse to think that Secretary Byrnes and the State Department would have gone so far in risking]: war with Russia if they had not with the way in which Senator’ | Vandenberg, the Army and Navy‘: are making our foreign policy.” Earlier, ina luncheon speech at! Macalester College in St. Paul, Wal- lace charged former British Prime: been needled into it by Vanden- \berg and the military,” he said. 3. The problem of carrying on suc-{: cessful relations with Russia, Wal- da said, “is not as simple as I ‘pr jumed it last September heres of his New York ak to his ouster from Minister Winston Churchill with’ et by President oP leading the “mischief ,” and’: —— aan of being the world’s “greatest Red; 7 baiter.” “Since I left the Government, a -trend towards modifying our posi- tion has been evident. However, discordant voites such as that of j Winston Churchill still speak up.” [Admiral Halsey Criticized * In bts speech tonight, Wallace! pe na aH CONTANED ; iE at Aras : fe ote ‘said that “certainly Secretary’ ied Byrnes was not responsible for 2ak 30> Pe fies writing the initials F over the neers evallst} Greece,” he mia. a 2 ee Vasu uegron 76 OS F- . le, S1/¢6 i t . AGE 2. / 62 - -7/7 8 § - BEX