ALLIES AND RUSSIA

Evening Star, Issue 25768, 15 April 1946, Page 5

ALLIES AND RUSSIA

CRITIGISi-BUT MO WAR SUPREME INTEREST IS PEACE NEW YORK, April 12. The former Secretary of Agriculture, Mr Henry Wallace, in a speech at the Roosevelt memorial dinner, said: "There is not going to be any war with (Russia. She has too much sense, just as we have too much sense. Of course. England is critical of Russia, and (Russia is critical of England. Both nations may at times be critical of us, just at we may be critical of them, but our supreme interest is peace, and it should be our function to preserve peace by mediating between the two nations. We should not take the side of one against the other, for. aside from language and common literary tradition, we have no more in common with Imperialistic England than with Communistic Russia. We should take only the side of world unity, only the side of making the United Nations an equitable instrument for -a just and endless peace." \fr Wallace deplored the fact that President Roosevelt had not lived to realise the full application of atomio energy, and expressed the belief that the military authorities would not succeed in obtaining dictatorial control over atomic energy. He said the difficulty was in getting a progressive atomic energy Bill through Congress. If Congress should pass a reactionary Bill. France would surely surpass the United States in the peace-time development of atomio energy. She not only had some of the world's best scientists, but had plenty of fissionable material in Madagascar. Russia, Britain, and Belgium would not be faf behind.