Detroit evening times., 1945-09-03
WESTBROOK
,PEGLER
Fair
Enough

our people are gong 10 'ihe iof
a change is that he doesn't
show preference for the
Broadway and Hollywood mug
gers who used the White House
and politics for publicity pur-
poses in the last dozen years
and the Broadway saloon trash
VINO came on TO be authorities
on international relations, social
questions and economics.
l don't think he has any
prejudice against actors and
neither have 1. but their arti-
fetal celebrity or glamour, as
they call it. tends TO give q
false impor rtance 10 their
opinions on subjects on which
they are total ignoramuses and.
under Mr.. Roosevelt. they were
hamming it all over the place
in the political campaigns and
posing as great bleeding hearts
when, as a matter of fact, they
were just strutting their
childish vanity and having q
wonderful time.
All this cheapened the White
House and il didn't do our pres
tige any good or serve any other
good purpose, either, to send
abroad as representatives OF the
United States individuals who
we're notorious toss-pots, garter
snappers and gigolos.
I HAVE 10 gulp when ] say
4 this. considering Mr. Tr1-
mans political background IN
Kansas City. but l think we are
going to find him against graft
in office and the exploitation of
the presidency not only by
members of his family but by
his friends
He wasn't thinking of heCorn-
ing president when he was run
ming with the Pendergast crowd
in Kansas City. but II is a
strange irony that II he hadn't
run with them, crooks that they
were. ne wouldn't be president
today and We might have Henry
Wallace and Sidney HIlman
juSt tearing things apart and
riots all over because commo-
ton, not government, is their
dish.
And | hope II Is not cynical
Of me 10 grant him perverss
respec, for fyng out 20 ths
funeral NJ the old scoundrel las'
winter because there he showed
a sense Of personal loyalty and
damn the consequences. that
Mr. Byrnes found lacking in the
man Who made a choreboy ~
him and then douhle-crossed
him AZ the Chicago convention
IN favor Of Mr. Truman
I SEE where he SAID he didn't
i like Franco IN Spain and
that Is all right with me al
though the majority Of the peo-
pie who hate Franco worst are
Just aS had as Franco and for
the same reasons
! mean. Of course. the Com
muniStS in Spain and Britain
and here and assume that Mr..
Truman knows that IL Franco
goes and the Communists come
back in Spain that viii mean
plenty Of trouble for us in the
Latin American countries.
! would have preferred that
he keep his dlSliket 10 himself.
| think he might better have
kept 4 still tongue in his head
about The French press. TOO. not ,
that ne wasn't correct but that(
such talk ls 2 little beneath the
dignity of his office and nstu-
rally leads ~ repsrtee
But he matured politically n
Washington during time when
Mr. Roosevelt was calling peo-
pie liars who promptly called
hun 2 liar back and picking on
a defenseless reporter 20 accuse
him OF treason BY innuendo In
presenting him with an Iron
Cross, when the fellow wasn't
present. OF course. or We might
have had disgrsceful row and
Mr.. Truman may need soma
time IN SCI his brakes and put
4 stop 10 that kind Of thing.
WILL bet YOU that il Mr..
L Roosevelt had been president
when Japan was licked he would
have made il seem that the re-
lease Of gasoline 10 the public
was 4 personal benefaCtion from
generous ruler 10 his subjects,
Truman Just said gas was of
the ration list and let II go Al
that and moreover he didn't
delay or dramstlze the act but
gave the public morale the
finest boost IL has had. except
by the defeat Of the enemy
countries. IN a few casual words.
II is not really odd that q
small town plowboy with high
school education and one expert
ence as small shopkeeper in
gents clothing should bring
dignity and good manners 10 the
White House in contrast to vul-
garity and conversation couched
so largely in wisecracks.
We grow good people in our