LETTERS
LETTERS To the Editor Roads for Truman From HERBERT M. MERRILL To the Editor; , SHOULD President Truman, now that hia party has been soundly beaten, prefer two years more in the White House to...
...Labor shouldn't be forced by unreasonable employers to resort to its ultimate economic weapon...
...He can be as forward looking as Alexander Hamilton, and his field of action is a planet, not a small area, as was Hamilton's, confined to the eastern seaboard of North America...
...Yes, Opportunity still "knocks" at Harry S. Truman's door...
...Not but what capitalism will soon become intolerable, but because we should make the most of an outmoded economy as long as we are compelled to endure its obvious social disadvantages...
...If Truman doesn't rise to his opportunity, let him remember that the "Iceman" of the atom "Cometh", ready to dispose of both civilization and humanity...
...tion's charter which is already proving as ineffectual as our own Articles of...
...Emery Reves want* to know why no delegate in the United Nation's organisation has "the courage to stand up" and to "explain to the Others that a league of sovereign states can never prevent war among its members...
...The Metropolitan shows that prior to 1850, our presidents outlived by 2.9 years on an average a reasonable expectation of life...
...If this be truly a "time for greatness," Harry S. Truman can still immortalize himself by doing one of the following: 1—Convert his own country from a miscalled "democracy" into the genuine article by heeding the recommendation of Senator Fulbright and creating at this late day the precedent made long ago in Great Britain when its premier felt constrained to resign whenever faced by a hostile parliament or hostile country...
...Those who create, not those who merely imitate, are venerated by posterity...
...namely, that being President.of the United States is a killing job...
...2—Harry S. Truman could initiate in this country the Saltajobadan system in vogue in Sweden for dealing with threatened strikes, lockouts and other labor difficulties...
...Such action, if you please, would establish here in America the political, economic and social dynamism iecessary if "democracy" is to survive in an atomic age...
...3—Harry S. Truman would dejw&| the applause of posterity by noting ijr significance of that nine to one vote hi Massachusetts favoring the setting us of a World Federation...
...Truman, if he wills, can yet be acclaimed by future historians...
...SHOULD President Truman, now that hia party has been soundly beaten, prefer two years more in the White House to two more*years of life, which latter may be his should he take the advice of Senator Fulbright after appointing a Republican Secretary of State to qualify aa his successor...
...Which course should Harry S. Truman elect to follow now, seeing that his countrymen have elected to make him a scapegoat for all disabilities imposed on them in the aftermath of a Second World War...
...Certainly Ma*, aachusetts' Republicans must be for it as that vote of November 5th attested...
...Those "checks and balances" imposed on us by the "founding fathers" are as outmoded now as a fivemile-an-hour stage-coach is beside Jet rocket planes soon to be speeding 100, 500 or 1000 times as fast as Rameses II, Julius Caesar or George Washington traveled...
...Schenectady, N. Y...
...Isn't it obvious that in view of such a tremendous Republican landslide on November 5th the Democrats would be crazy to nominate Truman in 1948 ? As for the alternative of two or more years expectation of life should Mr...
...as Andrew Johnson is in connection with Abraham Lincoln, it behooves him to create precedent instead of merely following it...
...He'd deserve it if he were to call a new conference of, the representatives of all nations f«r the purpose of formulating a World Constitution to replace a United N...
...Like the atom bomb, that weapon destroys both the guilty and the innocent...
...From 1350 to 1900 they fell behind such expectation 2.9 years, while in the 20th century they have sacrificed eight yeara of life by Ailing the presidential chair...
...Confederation demonstrated to the "founding fathers...
...Or course Fulbright's advice seems "fantastic" to our alleged "practical" politicians, creatures for the most part as innocent of political and economic ideologies as any cow is of the implications of Einstein relativity or any pig of the molecular arrangements of amino acids...
...Truman should call together representatives of all labor and all employers and insist they agree that wages generally be raised monthly or quarterly with increases of the pricelevel...
...If President Truman, who's said to be so fond of Tennyson's poem which envisions a world where "war drums beat no longer", posessed "guts'* enough to demand Tennyson's "Federation of the World" and "Parliament of Man" now, he might find a lot of support from liberal Republicans...
...Truman retire now, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company seems to have demonstrated quite conclusively what many have already suspected with the passing of Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...Aside from a killing job even for two yeara longer, if Harry S. Truman wants his name mentioned by future generations with occasional respect, and not as infrequently in comparison with F.D.R...
Vol. 30 • January 1947 • No. 3
