THE WEEK IN REVIEW
THE WEEK IN REVIEW PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S first 2 weeks in the White House have provided seasoned observers with many an opportunity to draw tentative conclusions. Most of them are convinced that for...
...Total casualties of 912,000 were announced...
...He said that a number of Senators who had voted against the waterway legislation in the closing hours of the last session when it was offered as an amendment to the Rivers and Harbor Bill have expressed their willingness to vote for it as a separate bill in this session...
...This view is that the Lublin Committee, installed in Poland by the Kremlin without consulting the Polish people or the Polish Government-in-Exile, was to be abandoned for a new and more democratically based government of national unity including some members of the Lublin regime but others as well...
...4. Refuse to discuss the St...
...At mid-week it was announced that at the request of Gen...
...Molotov would pay his respects to the President of the United States when he was passing by, as he should...
...Following his statement the Senate voted to kill an amendment to the Selective Service Act which would have required that 18 and 19 year olds be given a year's training before being sent into combat...
...Stettinius, Molotov, and British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden were still groping for a solution this week, but had come to no agreement 24 hours before the curtain was to go up at San Francisco...
...Supreme Court Justice Frank Murphy said last week that the Nazis had established anti-Semitism as an instrument of international politics...
...First Domestic Moves In the latter field, however, he did find time to: 1. Appoint John W. Snyder to head the Federal Loan Agency, the powerful Government bureau whose activities were divorced from the Department of Commerce when the late Mr...
...Secretary of State Edward Stettinius issued a reply which had the approval of the White House in which he said: "The note which has been received from the Soviet Government reiterates the Soviet request that the present provisional government now functioning in Warsaw be invited to send representatives to the conference at San Francisco...
...Roosevelt named Henry A. Wallace Secretary of Commerce...
...Roosevelt and Mr...
...On many occasions it may be possible to avoid conflicts by this procedure," the Ohio Senator said...
...This doesn't mean that basic changes in policy are in the offing, although a revamping of key personnel is definitely indicated...
...The Messrs...
...All the correspondents, whether they had been pro or anti-Roosevelt, were greatly impressed with the President's performance...
...Asserting that the independence of India is indispensable to peace, he warned the Allies to "shed their belief in the efficacy of war and its accompanying terrible deceptions and fraud" and to "hammer out a peace based on the freedom and equality of all races and nations...
...Robert Taft, who pledged him their support and suggested methods of averting possible differences...
...was formerly associated with the Reconstruction Finance Corporation under Jesse Jones, but was widely regarded as a member of the liberal group in the RFC...
...In a special note, Soviet Russia renewed her demand that the Lublin regime be invited to send a delegation to the San Francisco conference...
...Two Republican Congressmen and Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce visited one of the camps with a delegation from the British Parliament...
...He gave emphatic endorsement to the Bretton Woods international financial arrangements, including the creation of the controversial stabilization fund...
...On trial for alleged violations of the Trading with the Enemy Act, the Chase National Bank, one of the nation's most powerful banking houses, called the charges "absurd and outrageous...
...Lawrence Waterway, whose approval has long been blocked in the Senate by Tory forces...
...They were horrified at the evidence of atrocities committed by the Nazis against European civilians...
...Churchill conducted a joint press conference—was on hand for Mr...
...The War Department revealed last week that American war casualties have neared the million mark...
...Truman had been criticized as Vice President when he referred the MVA bill to a hostile Senate committee...
...A record throng of news correspondents —greater even than that which jammed the President's oval offices when Mr...
...The President replied sharply that Mr...
...However, the view of the United States Government remains that an invitation to the Conference at San Francisco should be extended only to a new provisional government of national unity formed in accordance with the Crimea agreement...
...Camouflage.' Mohandas K. Gandhi, powerful leader of India's millions, declared last week that the Indian delegation to the San Francisco security conference is a "camouflage" and ought to be dropped...
...Casualties...
...and also declined to comment on TVA personnel...
...Snyder, a St...
...F. C. Lendrum, assistance professor at the University of Illinois medical school, charged last week that there is too much temptation under present methods of medical practice for surgeons to perform operations just for the sake of the large fee involved...
...The term of David E. Lilienthal, able chairman of the TVA board, expires soon...
...Names And Notes In The News Brutality...
...Chief of Staff Gen...
...First boat to dock at San Francisco for the United Nations Conference beginning this week was a Russian ship...
...A Bone To Chew The new President emerged from a major test— his first press conference in the White House—with flying colors...
...Vodka...
...Truman's first session with the press...
...declared for a continuation of the reciprocal tariff and trade policies of the Roosevelt Administration, expressed his desire to confer with the leaders of all the major Allied nations, and announced his support of the San Francisco Conference of the United Nations, whose opening session he addressed by radio this week...
...Truman has a mind of his own and doesn't hesitate to use it...
...While hundreds of photograph bulbs exploded all around him and 348 news and radio men milled about the room, the President answered questions with a crisp-ness and sharpness which showed decisiveness at all times...
...According to reports it was heavily laden with vodka and caviar and other ingredients of a gay social life...
...Such representation will be worse than no representation...
...Last week Moscow announced her refusal to back down...
...Kenneth McKellar, Tennessee Democrat and presiding officer of the Senate who has now been invited by the President to attend Cabinet meetings...
...George Aiken, Vermont Republican who has been leading the fight in Congress for legislation authorizing the St...
...Warning...
...The Ohio Republican said it was the first time he had been in the office of a President since the days of former President Herbert Hoover...
...Trading...
...The Government began anti-trust action against the Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, the giant grocery chain, last week...
...3. Transfer to Secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace additional responsibilities and a new headache by moving the Office of Surplus Property of the Treasury procurement division to the Department of Commerce...
...Waterway...
...It does mean that after the present pressures have been relaxed, the new President will demur against the automatic acceptance of the course charted by the Roosevelt regime...
...Most of the President's comments were in the field of foreign policy...
...Most of them are convinced that for all his widely mentioned humility and for all his announced determination to follow the course staked out by the late President Roosevelt, Mr...
...Either India at San Francisco is represented by an elected representative or represented not at all," he said...
...Lawrence Seaway, charged that the project is being blocked by "not more than 1,000 people in the whole country...
...Russia claims that it was decided at Yalta to maintain the Made-in-Moscow Lublin regime which would send a delegation to the San Francisco conference after it "broadened" its membership to include a few "outsiders" acceptable to London and Washington, The Anglo-American interpretation, however, is markedly different...
...With the war in Europe racing toward the final mopping-up stage and the San Francisco Conference of the United Nations now in full swing, President Truman has been deeply absorbed in foreign affairs almost to the complete exclusion of domestic problems...
...7. Announce that he would retain the nationwide curfew and the ban on horse racing...
...A doctor can collect $500 for operating and only $25 for discovering there is no need for an operation," he said...
...Poland is a member of the United Nations and of right should be at San Francisco...
...Republicans Pledge Support 5. Answer a query from a Negro newspaper correspondent about his stand on racial problems by referring the interrogator to his record in the Senate...
...George C. Marshall told Congress this week that as soon as military conditions permit the Army will adopt a policy of not sending soldiers under 19 overseas...
...Identifying the 1,000 as executives and stockholders of private utility companies, Aiken declared that they are "more interested in making profits for themselves than they are in helping the welfare of 136,000,000 people...
...But the United States Government, under the leadership of the new President, stood firm...
...Taft, who went back for a second visit alone, announced that the GOP delegation had made its call "to tender our regards and good wishes and express our willingness to have him call us at any time on any subject...
...8. Confer at some length with a delegation of 8 Republican Senators, led by Ohio's Sen...
...Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin had wrestled with the issue at Yalta and had triumphantly announced a "compromise" settlement acceptable to all the Big 3. Controversy On Poland As this was being written, however, a settlement seemed still beyond reach, with Soviet Russia insisting on one interpretation of the Yalta agreement and the United States and Great Britain insisting on quite another...
...The world was shocked this week by evidence of indescribable brutality uncovered in Nazi prison camps by conquering American troops...
...We must beware of it because "it is eventually anti-Catholic, anti-labor, anti-free press, anti-democracy," he said...
...The basic paragraph in the Yalta agreement over whose interpretation the Big 3 have been wrangling is this: "The provisional government which is now functioning in Poland should...
...Lilienthal is bitterly opposed by Sen...
...Eisenhower a bipartisan committee of Congressmen and representatives of American newspapers would visit the camps and witness first hand the brutality which Gen...
...Molotov brought with him the most ticklish problem facing the major powers as the San Francisco Conference opened—the problem of Poland...
...Of this number 813,870 are Army and 98,330 are combined Navy, Marine, and Coast Guard losses...
...The Republican Senators, he said, had offered President Truman the opportunity of dealing with them directly through their Senate leaders "at any time where prospects of differences over legislation appear...
...Suit...
...Eisenhower declared is impossible to "describe in words...
...The President showed unexpected fire—and also provided newsmen with a bone to chew—when he was asked if he expected to see V. M. Molotov, the Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs, when he was in Washington on his way to San Francisco...
...be reorganized on a broader democratic basis with the inclusion of democratic leaders from Poland itself and from Poles abroad...
...2. Announce his approval of plans to create a Missouri Valley Authority for the multi-purpose development of the Missouri River along lines of the TVA...
...Accusation...
...Louis, Mo., banker...
...Promise...
Vol. 9 • April 1945 • No. 18
