The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-13
Mourning Nation Gives
Solid Support to Truman

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been sworn in by Chief Justice
Stone in the cabinet room.
Placing his hand on a red-edged
Bible. the new President re-
peated the oath, reading from
small slip of paper.
CLOSE GUARD
He, his wife and their daugh-
ter, Margaret, left from rear
entrance for their apartment
home where they spent the
night, guarded closely by the
Secret Service and police.
Mrs. Roosevelt left immedi-
ately after the oath-taking GER
emony and flew to Warm
Springs to accompany the body
of the President to Washington.
But the crowd stayed on,
staring little vacantly and un-
believingly at the White House
symbol of the democracy that
goes on under a new guiding
hand.
Where that hand will direct
American destinies none could
truthfully tell today. The mas
ter governmental craftsman is
gone. The relatively untried ex-
ecutive carries on.
To the fighting men there was
reinsurance in the Truman
statement:
"The world may be sure that
we will prosecute the war on
both fronts, east and west, with
all the vigor we possess, to a
successful conclusion"
WILL FOLLOW PATTERN
To the allied and neutral
world there also was hope in
declaration by Stephen Early, a
White House secretary, that Mr..
Truman wants to say that it
will be his effort to carry on as
he believes the President would
have done and to that end he has
asked the cabinet to stay on with
him."
Secretary Of Interior Ickes
said the request for cabinet
members to remain at their posts
was made informally, that no
one answered.
81 believe he meant it." Ickes
told reporter.
United Nations leaders took
heart, too, at Mr.. Truman's de-
cision that the San Francisco
conference 60 on without delay.
These things were fairly tan
gible, but there remained q
thousand questions to be an
swered only by time. Some OF
these:
Will Mr.. Truman continue In
definitely without alteration Mr..
Roosevelt's foreign policies? The
new Presidents intimates think
there will be slight, if any,
changes in overall policy.
ENORMOUS HURDLES
Can he acquire the back
ground to meet soon such press
ing issues as raised in connec-
ton with the projected new
coalition government for Po-
land?
Will he, a World War artillery
officer who wanted to get into
this fight but was advised to
stay on the job in the Senate,
want a strong hand in determin-
ing military strategy? Most OBJ
servers think the purely mill
tary decisions will remain in the
hands of Marshall and King.
Will he hold a domestic course
"a little left of center" as
President Roosevelt described
it?
Is Harry Hopkins out as In
ternational and domestic ad.
visor? Few think he will have
much future White House in
fluence. They believe men like
former War Mobilizer James F
Byrnes, who flew to Washing
ton from Spartanburg, S. c., to
offer his help, will be consulted
KNOWS COMPROMISE
Will Truman be more able
than his predecessor to get de-
sired legislation through Con-
gress? President Roosevelt had
his troubles in late years. Tru-
man knows the value of COM
promise.
While these and kindred
questions concerned the nation
and the world, there came
pledges of support for the new
chief executive, mixed with
grief at the death of the old.
Prime Minister Churchill ar
ranged to address the House Of
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