[okie01]

Theodore R. appears to remember correctly.

From Wikipedia, FWIW:

In 1950, when North Korea invaded South Korea, Wallace broke with the Progressives and backed the U.S.-led war effort in the Korean War.[5] In 1952, Wallace published Where I Was Wrong, in which he explained that his seemingly-trusting stance toward the Soviet Union and Joseph Stalin stemmed from inadequate information about Stalin's excesses and that he, too, now considered himself an anti-Communist. He wrote various letters to "people who he thought had traduced (maligned) him" and advocated the re-election of President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956.[5]

In 1961, President-elect John F. Kennedy invited him to his inauguration ceremony, though he had supported Kennedy's opponent Richard Nixon. A touched Wallace wrote to Kennedy: "At no time in our history have so many tens of millions of people been so completely enthusiastic about an Inaugural Address as about yours."[5]

I learned something, too.

[lentulusgracchus]

Thanks for the post. Perhaps Comrade Stalin sent Wallace a typical Stalin gift ... a brand-new pistol, his present to failed generals during World War II. (Khrushchev was his delivery boy for that particular sort of political errand.)

Wallace was a raring-to-go Red in the 30's. Be interesting to know what, if anything, changed his mind -- other than HUAC breathing down his neck.

[lentulusgracchus]

Wallace's professed (if you can trust it) change of heart later -- assuming it's any good, arguendo -- does not say anything about what Wallace would have done, or how he would have governed, had he become President during the War.