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\Arumy, Navy /Needle Byrnes, | Wallace Says Minneapolis, Oct. 30 (U.P).—Henry A. Wallace, former Vice President 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 War and Navy Departments. In a speech prepared for delivery jat-a political rally for Democratic- Farmer - Labor candidates ‘here,’ ‘|Wallace said he “refused to believe that Secretary Byrnes is happy with the way in which Senator | Vandenberg, the Army and Navy are making our foreign policy.” Earlier, in.a luncheon speech at Macalester College in St. Paul, Wal- lace charged former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill with leading the “mischief making,” and of being the world’s “greatest Red baiter.” “Since I left the Government, a trend towards modifying our posi- tion has been evident. However, discordant voices such as that of : Winston Churchill still speak up.” |Admiral Halsey Criticized In his speech tonight, Wallace said that “certainly Secretary, Byrnes was ‘not responsible for! fliers writing the initials re R. over the skies Uf Heyalist) Greece’ he said. LY ' - ~ 712 ¢ ee “Certainly Secretary Byrnes—did not authorize Admiral Halsey to eee Navy would go wherever it damned pleased. “It is hard to believe that Sec-|: retary Byrnes is pressing for out-|' right U. S. ownership and fortifica-j_ tion of the Rykuku Islands in such]: a way as to be a definite and dis-|- tinct threat to the free access to}’ the seas by the Russians from ; itheir only warm-water Pacific ! women mene mere \port. Ww. Problem More Congplicated -The military njscessarily think|: and prepare to me!t the “next pos-|: sible enemy,” Wallace said, while the State Department 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 been needled into it by Vanden- berg and the military,” he said. The problem of carrying on suc-|: cessful relations with Russia, Wal- lace said, “is not as simple as [|: pr fumed it last September f2,” ia ed of his New York spetich that led to his ouster from the Cahinet by President ‘Truman. { vet CON NED ASHING TOS #. 7GE 2m