THE WEEK IN REVIEW
THE WEEK IN REVIEW HARRY S. TRUMAN, 33rd President of the United States, made his first appearance before Congress this week as the new wartime leader of the nation. Less than 4 days after the news...
...With Divine guidance and your help we will find the new passage to a far better world, a kindly and friendly world with just and lasting peace...
...No Peace Without Justice Turning to the vast problems of the peace, he asserted his determination to carry forward the plans for an international security organization...
...The responsibility of the great states is to serve and not dominate the peoples of the world...
...At home, Americans will not be less resolute...
...Names And Notes In The News umw Victory...
...In addition each miner will receive a vacation payment (in lieu of vacation) of $75 instead of $50...
...Almost his first act after taking the oath of office was to announce that the San Francisco conference of the United Nations would open Apr...
...Postwar Plans...
...Still Unconditional Surrender' The war, he said, will be conducted along the lines and in the same manner that it has been in the past...
...While the great states have a special responsibility to enforce the peace," he continued, "their responsibility is based upon the obligations resting upon all states, large and small, not to use force in international relations except in the defense of law...
...The Senate voted unanimously last week to extend Lend-Lease aid to foreign nations until June 30, 1946, after rejecting by a tie vote, 39 to 39, an amendment by Sen...
...Our demand has been, and it remains—Unconditional Surrender...
...12 he was sitting in front of a fireplace in the Little White House atop Pine Mountain when he complained: "I have a terrific headache...
...The great nations of the world, he said, must work together for peace...
...Naming Admirals King, Nimitz, and Leahy and Generals Marshal, Arnold, Eisenhower, and MacArthur, he pledged that the command would remain in their hands...
...The world will be doomed to deadly conflict, devoid of hope for real peace...
...The President had gone there to rest...
...We wanted an independent firm, bwt they didn't, so we gave in," he said...
...Their statement called for the adoption of an international bill of rights for the individual man...
...Having to pay such a heavy price to make complete victory certain America will never become a party to any plan for partial victory...
...As a result the only figures on production costs were supplied by...
...Within a few minutes he was unconscious and remained so for 2 hours and 35 minutes when death—the result of a massive cerebral hemorrhage, which is what doctors call a sudden extensive bleeding in the brain due to a ruptured blood vessel—overtook him at 3:35 p. m. (EWT...
...25 as scheduled...
...Only with your help," he said, "can I hope to complete one of the greatest tasks ever assigned to a public servant...
...2. One of 8 plans to set up shop or operate a farm of his own...
...The body was taken to Washington where a great throng watched sadly as the flag-draped caisson, drawn by seven white horses, moved toward the White House...
...We are deeply conscious of the fact that much hard fighting is still ahead of us...
...Yet, without such organization, the rights of man on earth cannot be protected...
...Brief and severely simple services were conducted there, after which the body was taken to Hyde Park, N. Y., where Franklin Roosevelt was buried in the rose bow-ered garden of the Hudson River estate he loved so much...
...It is this latter assignment which has created a serious deadlock—one which may now be broken as a result of Mikolajczyk's endorsement of the Yalta program...
...The task of creating a sound international organization is complicated and difficult...
...Accidents...
...4. Nine out of 10 whites plan to go back to the state which they left...
...2. Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, former prime minister of the Polish Government-in-Exile (London), announced that he was not opposed to the Yalta decision on the Polish question...
...The new agreement will give the average miner on the day shift $63.50 for a 54-hour week, as compared with the $57.06 under the old contract...
...One out of every 3 Negroes plans to move to another state...
...Every able bodied soldier in the United States will see overseas service as soon as he can be replaced by a returning veteran, according to an announcement by War Secretary Henry L. Stimson...
...Less than 4 days after the news was flashed to the world that President Roosevelt had fallen dead, the new commander-in-chief stood before his former Congressional colleagues to outline the course he would follow in the future conduct of America's domestic and war policy...
...It was that decision of the Big 3 which has created the greatest strife and led to a serious deadlock...
...They were never reduced, however, because, as he explained, "Alcoa insisted on having its own auditor...
...The President's Passing Both these developments in the field of foreign policy could hardly help but lighten President Truman's load, however briefly, in the hour of strife and crisis...
...Overseas...
...The United Mine Workers of America and their hard-hitting president, John L. Lewis, scored a spectacular triumph last week when the mine operators consented to a contract which gives the 400,000 bitumi-nus coal-diggers the best contract ever negotiated in their behalf...
...Sitdown...
...12—a few hours after death claimed the life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt high in a mountain cottage at Warm Springs, Ga...
...Nothing shall shake our determination to punish the war criminals even though we must pursue them to the ends of the earth...
...On the afternoon of Apr...
...The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration will require 100 billion dollars for food, clothing, and other relief supplies in liberated areas, UNRRA officials announced last week...
...Of these 216,287 were killed...
...Workers on the 2nd and 3rd shifts will receive about $2.16 and $3.24 per week more respectively...
...Concluding, he made a special appeal to Congress...
...Those who saw him before he left Washington said he looked very bad, but it was hoped that rest in Georgia would restore his strength...
...The research branch of the Army Service Forces' information and education division has just finished a survey on what the GI's plan to do after the war...
...Declaring that "tremendous progress has been made toward a really democratic way of life," he said, "Let me assure the forward looking people of America that there will be no relaxation in our efforts to improve the lot of the common people...
...3. One in 12 will attend full time school...
...Casualties...
...We must work, and, if necessary, fight for it...
...We shall never cease our struggle to preserve and maintain our American way of life...
...Machinery for the just settlement of international differences must be found...
...I want the entire world to know," he said, "that this direction must, and will remain—unchanged and unhampered .'" Nor did he leave any doubt that the terms for the ending of the war would not be changed...
...Nothing is more essential to the future peace of the world than continued cooperation of the nations which had to muster the force necessary to defeat the fascist conspiracy to dominate the world...
...The Negroes plan to leave the South for the industrial Northeast...
...Fortunately, people have retained hope for a durable peace...
...It is not enough to yearn for peace...
...An Hungarian author, Dr...
...Robert Taft, Ohio Republican, which would have banned the extension of Lend-Lease agreements into the postwar period...
...he declared...
...Both Prime Minister Churchill and the late President Roosevelt had been deeply disturbed by Stalin's earlier decision to keep Molotov at home and let Andrei A. Gromyko, Soviet ambassador at Washington, head the Red delegation...
...Testimony that the Aluminum Company of America went on strike against the Government at a crucial stage of the war was given to the Senate Small Business Committee last week by Will L. Clayton, Assistant Secretary of State...
...Thoughtful people have always had faith that ultimately justice must triumph...
...Relief...
...The new agreement must be approved by the War Labor Board and the War Mobilization Board...
...The White House disclosed that Stalin had agreed to send Molotov after President Truman had notified the Soviet dictator that such a move would be welcomed "as an expression of earnest cooperation in carrying forward plans and formulating the new international organization...
...Murder Camp...
...Alcoa's own firm...
...Calling for the assistance of all Americans to help him carry out the ideals of Franklin Roosevelt, he promised to support and defend those ideals with "all my strength and all my heart...
...British war casualties in actual combat amount to 502,396...
...abruptly changed his mind, ordered Foreign Commissar V. M. Molotov to attend the conference...
...Asked why the Government agreed to pay a 3 cent premium above base price, Clayton said that it would have been to the Government's advantage if production costs had been reduced...
...The safest industry is communications...
...Past experience surely indicates that, without justice, an enduring peace becomes impossible...
...So that there can be no possible misunderstanding, both Germany and Japan can be certain, beyond any shadow of doubt, that America will continue the fight for freedom until no vestige of resistance remains...
...Lend-Lease...
...Easing The Load "On the battlefields we have frequently faced overwhelming odds and won...
...Every American, the Council's statisticians found, has one chance in 29 of being hurt in his home and exactly the same chance of being hurt while working at his job...
...Truman's task was aided greatly by two significant developments on the eve of the San Francisco meeting : 1. Marshal Josef Stalin of the U.S.S.R...
...Without such machinery, the entire world will have to remain an armed camp...
...The two-thirds found to have definite plans have the following in mind: 1. More than two-thirds plan to work for an employer...
...Declaring that the "responsibility for the making of the peace . . . must rest with the defenders of the peace, the United Nations," the new President said that he did not wish to see "unnecessary or unjustified suffering...
...As was expected, he pledged himself to follow the program established and carried forward by his predecessor...
...The safest place to live is a farm...
...The Yalta agreement on Poland virtually underwrote all Soviet claims to Polish territory and, in addition, provided for a reorganization of the Lublin regime, created by Moscow, along broader and more democratic lines...
...The next safest is the explosives industry...
...Even before he spoke to Congress and the country, President Truman had made it clear that while he may soon make important changes in personnel, he was determined to follow through with his predecessor's plans for waging the war and planning the peace...
...The white migrants will move west...
...Bill of Rights...
...He became the Nation's 33rd President on the evening of Apr...
...Bela Fabian, who was recently liberated from a Nazi concentration camp by American troops, told American newsmen that at the Oswiecim camp in Polish Silesia, where he was held for a time, the Nazis murdered 5,000,000 European civilians, most of them Jews...
...Criticism of major aspects of the Dumbarton Oaks-Yalta security scheme to be submitted to the San Francisco conference next week was voiced last week by the Catholic bishops and archbishops making up the administrative board of the National Catholic Welfare Conference...
...To the nation's domestic future he made only a passing reference...
...Clayton defended deals made with Alcoa by his former boss, Jesse Jones, declaring that at the time of a dangerous shortage of aluminum Alcoa was an "unwilling seller" and that the Government had to give in...
...The National Safety Council estimated last week that you have one chance in 14 of being injured in an accident this year...
Vol. 9 • April 1945 • No. 17
