Evening star., 1945-10-28
Keeping Secret Of
Atom Bomb Called
"A Sacred Trust
LONDON PAPERS HAIL Truman
talk; Congress reaction mixed.
Page AS.
BY ]. A. FOX,
Star Staff Correspondent.

NEW YORK, Oct. 27.-Against
the backdrop of a massed display
of American fighting power on
the sea and in the air, President
Truman today pleaded the cause
of lasting peace "in a troubled
and uncertain world" and
served notice that this Nation
will use force-if necessary-to
insure it.
Standing before vast crowd
gathered in Central Park in a Navy
Day observance as he sketched the
foreign policy of his administra-
ton, the President pointed to the
armed might of the United States,
but asserted that it was not di-
rected toward conquest.
I'VE seek to use our military
strength solely to preserve the
peace of the world" he said, "for
we now know that is the only sure
way to make our own freedom Sc
cure"
Mr.. Truman, outlining 12-point
policy, asserted that the Nation re-
CARDS possession of the atomic Sc
cret "a sacred trust" He added:
THE atomic bomb does not alter
the basic foreign policy Of the
United States. 1t makes the de-
velopment and application of our
policy more urgent than we could
have dreamed six months ago. 1t
means that we must be prepared
to approach international problems
with greater speed, with greater de-
termination and with greater in
genuity in order to meet a situation
for which there is no precedent"
Mr.. Truman said the United
States soon would begin discussions
of the atomic bomb with Great
Britain and Canada and later with
other nations, but he reiterated that
those talks would not be concerned
with the processes of manufac-
turing the atomic bomb or any
other instrument of war"
The speech was broadcast to the
Nation.
Reviews Fleets Warships.
A little while later, the President
stood on the bridge of the destroyer
Renshaw and travelled up and down
o seven-mile lane in the choppy
Hudson River to review 47 sturdy
ships of the American fleet, while
overhead, hundreds of planes, back
from the war, droned their salute
to the Commander in Chief.
After nearly a dozen crowded
hours here, during which, according
to police estimates, 100000 per-
sons turned out to greet him on
30-mile route, the President left for
the return trip to Washington on
his special train.
The Navy speech, which was view
ed at the White House as the most
important of Mr.. Trumans pro-
nouncements since he assumed the
Presidency, followed an earlier and
briefer talk at the Navy Yard in
Brooklyn when the 45,000-ton car
rier Franklin D. Roosevelt was
commissioned in the presence of a
company Whlch lncludeQ Mrs.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
Dwells on World Peace Theme.
Here, too, Mr.. Truman dwelt on
the theme of world peace as Capt.
Appollo Soucek-who has just been
nominated to be a rear admiral
took command of the great ship
In the traditional rites of the Navy.
That thought likewise was echoed
in the invocation of Comdr. Joseph
T. O'Callahan, the heroic chaplain
of the Carrier Franklin, who prayed
that this vessel, designed as an
instrument of war, may be an in
strument of peace"
In enunciating the doctrine of
"peace by force" Mr.. Truman took
occasion to restate the principles
(See TRUMAN, Page A-6.)