Where the News Ends

...They, say that he insists that no other country shall force its will upon sny smaller or less powerful nations—meaning, in particular, Russia...

...It is a sort of language which the world will understand...

...And there is the implication from beginning to end thst sll nations—not just the Big Three or the Big Five—have a right to a place, and a voice, in the family of nation...

...Truman Faces Tough Alternatives THE President's Navy Day address was an effort to pull us out of a morass of undisguised imperialism and power politics to the higher ground of cooperation and mutual security...

...Had such a scheme been put forward and generally accepted, a long step on the road toward peace and security would have been taken...

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...An American need not be an expert on international affairs to feel certain that univeraal military training in this country is not needed to hold down countries so thoroughly beaten and pulverized as Germany and Japan...

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...The big mass demonstrations in his favor which accompanied the return to power of the Argentine "atrong man," Col...

...The whole situstinn in regard to American military policy would have been vastly clarified if the Administration had put forward a world project for limitation of armaments, including the abolition of conscription everywhere in the world...

...ThK publication of President Roosevelt's letter to King 11.., Sand, promising that no steps would be taken in Palestine without prior consultation with Arab leaders, was forced on the Stale Department because ihe Arab monarch had threatened to publish not only the letter, but a complete record of his conversation with Roosevelt...

...Juan Peron, are construed in some quarters aa reflecting on the quality of USA political and military intelligence in that country...

...The lukewarmness toward the universal military training proposal is a compound] of several causes...

...There bad been too much inclination to attribute Per on's hold on power purely to military and police methods and an underestimation of the dictator'e success in getting control of some labor organisations...

...But in more than one passage there rs evidence thst the President was carefully considering all the "laborious, painstaking snd undramalic things" through which a nation can make its power felt...

...The United States is holding no colonies against their will and is forcing its form of government on no one...

...This states** was so contrary to British ideals and policies that, if made as elated ia the dispatch, it will certainly ke condemned and repudiated by decent Englishmen of all parties and schools of thought...

...He will throw our power against the imperialism of others, but our own imperialism he will defend...

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...It was discovered that a book of essays which be bad published under hia own name contained extensive plagiarism from the works of Bcrtrand Kusscll...

...Rooeevell's exits-ordinary capacity for being, or seeming to he, all things lo all men...

...But if we can't have that, we shall be ready for war...

...For thai we shall strive...

...Short of that he said everything be could say to convince the world of the seriousness of American intentions...

...Outraged intellectual opinion led to his withdrawal from the Academy...

...We are told that this country will refuse to recognize any government "imposed by the force of any foreign power...

...In recognition of these services he was nominated by the government as a member of the Polish Acsdemy...

...In a world in which no threat loomed from across the Pacific the people of this country would be happy to leave all far-off islanders to their own devices...

...But, say these critics, be clings to our special sphere of influence in the Americas and he demands bases in far-flung Pacific areas...

...Next week Jacob Pmt, secretary of the Jtwitk Labor Committtt, will writt about the war rumntsit trialt, taking issue with tkt viewpoint expretud lest week fry William Henry CkamberHn...

...Truman's message will encourage the smsll nations and the oppressed populations of many quarters of the globe...

...Unfortunately] Major Winwood, according to a diapatch in The /Vest York Time* of October 9, which 1 had overlooked, waa also responsible for a stajesnent which, far froaa being praiseworthy, was quite outrageous, referring to the Jewish victims of Belsen and other camps at "the dregs of the European ghettos...

...The criticism hss only formal validity...

...There is reason to believe that if this complete record should ever be published it would give new evidence of Mr...

...Certainly no power outside the ranks of the Big Three is an actual or potential threat to American security of such proportions as to demand the introduction of universal military training...

...As matter* stand, the President is in the awkward position of having to find rather unconvincing reasons with which to support a proposal which may unfortunately be necessary for future American security and the rejection of which will weaken American diplomatic influence abroad...

...There is the invariable and inevitable psychological letdown after the end of a great war...

...Applause for Mr...

...Hyde situation, lu last weeH column 1 praised tbe British Major Thomas winwnel for stating, in his capacity as counsel for (he toaj luandant of (he Belsen concentration camp, that CreA Britain had used concentration camps...

...Critics from another quarter deprecate the address ss being too vague, containing no definite program of action, no definite threat to aggressors...

...Truman when be entered the House of Representatives was enthusiastic...

...Truman was handicapped because, for obvious diplomatic reasons, he could not put forward the one really strong argument for universal military training in this country: the necessity of providing some check snd counterbalance to tbe unlimited militarization and aggression of the Soviet Union...

...Such a scheme, l<> be effective, would require tbe right of mutual inspection, the right of American, Russian and British experts to go anywhere and inspect any plant for evidence of violation of the agreement...

...For all nations he wants democracy, self-government, freedom, access to trade and raw materials...

...Then there is the consideration that we do not know (he military plans and policies of other nations...

...We were given a solemn pledge that the power of this nation will serve the cause of freedom...

...In its broad outlines whst the President said to the world is simple...

...The handclapping during and after his speech was no more than moderately respectful...

...Had a certain power rejected this idea, the responsibility for tbe precarious stale of heavily armed peace would have been clearly and unmistakably established...

...A good joke was spoiled when ¦to newspaperman ventured to ask Kzymawski at his press conference whether he still admired Bcrtrand Kussell...

...A joke which is going the rounds about the President's partiality in appointments for natives of his home state runs as follows: "Truman is distributing appointments pretty evenly between East and West - between East Missouri West Missouri...

...Kxymowski, who now likes to pose as au irreconcilable) anti-fascist, was formerly s journalistic upholder of the dictatorship of Marshal Josef I'il-nudski...

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...The closest approach to action took a negative form...

...PoLKS in Washington are recalling an amusing incident in the career of Wincenty R/.ymowski, who visited Washington as Foreign Minister of the Communist Boleslaw Bierut's "government of national unity...

...Critics of the President make two points against his exposition of our national aims...

...Some of the principles of the Atlantic Charter were again proclaimed...

...He could not promise to send our Army and Navy to blow sny tyrannical nation off the face of the earth...

...With the cooperation of all other peace-loving peoples the USA is pledged to work toward these ideals...

...There is the very questionable validity of some of the arguments which are used to bolster up the suggestion...

...He proclaimed that we air willing lo work with the United Nations for a peaceful, civilized world but thst because things look dark right now for that sort of cooperation we shall go on per-lecting our tanks and guns snd planes and alombombt and keep them ready for instant use...

...And as for the air and naval bases, it is not probable that the USA will use them for purposes of conquest snd expansion...

...But his stay in that learned institution was brief...

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...We know thst our only security lies in peaceful cooperation...

...Where the News Ends By WILLIAM HENRY CHAMBERLIN Washington Ticktr WASHINGTON, D. C. The impression I re-reived as a spectator at tbe session of the two Houses of Congress where President Truman made his plea for a system of univeraal military training is that the President is personally more popular than this particlar proposal...

...There is no country in South America where we are now preventing free elections or which we hold incommunicado as the Soviet Union is still holding more thsn one Balkan state...