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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-06-15
Real Estate
Houses For sale

5 ROOM HOME on improved
street just out Of city, large lot
sOxI52. Excellent garden ground.
House rs insulated. Hot water
heat. Hardwood floors Very
clean throughout. $1,000 down,
rest like rent.
4 ROOM HOME, full basement.
Lot 5OxllO. Garage lsNeO. Electric
lights, coal heat, good well water.
Free and clear. S2s0Q0O cash.
GUY ELLIOTT
BR O X + R
Phone e7ll-J. 1906 ColIegewood DR..
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-06-15

1872 so HURON RIVER DRIVE.
Today's best buy. rooms, utility
room, bath. 2 oil burning stoves,
Lot 100 Z 100. Price $3.50.
Terms. Price represents cost OF
material only.
II A N N A n
r. II. Kryder, Local Representative
Phone $3.50
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Classified Advertising

Payment nnsi
lee Six Days l0e- DAYS &c
classn advertisement Is three lines
display annual contracts
lot responsible Incorrect insertion
DeAdne: before publication Teephones 40 tIl
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-06-15

INDEPENDENCE, Mo.-AP -
Harry S. Truman will be home this
month for the first time since he
became President. The President
plans a two-day stay here on his
return TO Washington from the
United Nations Conference in San
Francisco The dates. probably
June q and 2s, remain indefinite
because OF the unpredictable ter
mination OF the conference.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-06-15

WEST MICHIGAN AVE. - 100
block. rooms. bath, furnace,
garage attached. Price $3.50 for
quick sale. u down. Balance
monthly.
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suburban PropertY for Sale
Brokerage Cares

5 LOTS WITH COTTAGE. South
side. Part Of an estate. Reasonable.
20 per cent down. Box WI Pres s.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-06-15

NEW DIAMOND and wedding ring
set $50 Diamond with small
diamonds and three in Neddiug
band. Phone 13J6-M.
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Phone .7il-J 1906 collegewoOd DR..

UNUSUAL OPPORTUNITY
10 purchase
il5 COLLEGE PLACE
II room modern income home in
excellent condition, centrally To-
Gated on n quiet street. Possible
income from rooms on second
floor Will more than make the
monthly payments FOR interest.
principal, taxes, insurance and
upkeep and there are stil six
rooms and bath on first floor for
owners use; hot water heat, eX-
cellent basement with laundry,
recreation room, study and fruit
room. Large lot with a peach,
pear. cherry and three apple
trees, two grape vines and gar
age. Could be converted into a
.. or 4 family apartment.
POSS ESSION within 80 days as
owners are leaving Ypsilanti.
Call or See
EHMAN Il GREENSTREET
REALTORS
40 w. Michigan Ave. Phone 1881
COBBLESTONE HOME also
large year around home within
block Of Lake Michigan,
BARBER AND BEAUTY SHOP
on Main st. All equipment in
cluded. $500.
LARGE ROAD HOUSE on paved
highway on thirteen acres.
Equipped, ready for business.
100000, u cash.
TWENTY ROOM HOTEL, fully
equipped, on Lake Charlevoix,
Sl5,500. y cash
SEVERAL ROOMING HOUSES
and smaller hotels. Write for in
formation.
PLYMOUTH REAL ESTATE
Box l0i CharlevoiN
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Merehandise For SAFE

WtTCWaWuIGC 2 OF odIE
LADIES' OXFORDs. s-A. blue slip
pers and 7izA. Cedar-liued wal
nut wardrobe. baby buggy. child's
toilet seat, steel letter file. tin
bread box. oil painting on velvet
Call 2se5-W-i or see at 725 T..
Grand Blvd.
IL TT. MARINE PLYWOOD BOAT
All brass screws. good condition.
Light weight with oars and an
Choir. Call after $50 p. m. PIG
y Prospect st.
Evening star., 1945-01-03
Stocks Prices Reach
/ New 7-Year Peaks;
SteeIs Take Lead
BY BERNARD s. O'HARA,
Associated Press Finapcial Writer.

NEW YORK, Jan. 3.-Stocks
pushed up to new 7-year peaks to-
day on resumption of broad buying
which was touched off by an early
display of strength in the steels.
Advances ranged from fractions
to around Q points at the best but
near the fourth hour some Of the
industrial favorites had fallen back
a little from the highs.
The market hit a fast pace In the
first hour in which volume was at
the rate of more than 2,0O0, ,O0O
shares for the session. Further
gains In commodities stimulated
buying sentiment. Rail loans were
again favored in steady bond mar
ket.
Prominent among the rising shares
were United States Steel, Bethle-
hem, Youngstown Sheet, Chrysler,
United States Rubber, Douglas Air
craft, American Can, Allied Chem
ical and Eastman Kodak. Showing
best action in the rail division were
Santa Fe, Southern Pacific and
Chesapeake & Ohio.
Evening star., 1945-01-03
DC. Bank Deposits
Gain S93,S99,475
In Six Months
BY EDWARD G. STONE.

Washington banks registered 9
gain of $93,899, ATS in aggregate de-
posits in the last six months oi
1914, 1t was learned today following
q condition call issued by the Con-
troller Of the Currency, as of De-
cember 80.
Deposits in the 81 banks totaleo
$855, ,756, ,433, an all-time peak, against
$76l ,856,857 on June 80, 1914. The
banks gained $146, ass, 100 in deposits
in the full year 1914.
Bankers said today that the sen.
sational advance was due chiefly tc
deposits in connection with the
Sixth War Loan drive, which have
not been withdrawn by the Treas
ury. There have also been substan.
tial increases in other deposits. The
individual banks reported these de-
posits as of December 80, 1914:
Evening star., 1945-01-03
Chicago Livestock

CHICAGO, jan. 8 lR (WFAl .-Salable
slow. closing moderately active. barrows
and gifts steady to 10 lower than Tuesday
average good and choice 100 pounds and
| top, 14.75: few good and choice 150-1s0
pounds, 14.00-5e; sows steady, mostly at
400 ceiling that class; complete clear
ance.
Salabie cattle, $4,000; total. 10000;
| salable calves, 1000: total calves, 1000;
general trade moderately, active, fully
and yearlings, I3.75-16.75; top, II 80, on
yearlinEs; best. weiEhty steers. II 90; rood
down; heavy sausage bulls to 1925, and
beef bulls to 1880; vealers firm at 1880
down.
early sales: bidding steady on good and
choice fed wooled Western lambs or 300
| %. and 1886; six loads Kansas wheat
Evening star., 1945-01-03
Washington Produce

From the War Food Administration
Prices paid net fob Washington.
EGGS--Market Arm. Fresh receipts
light, and dealers were limiting customers
State GRADED eggs received from grading
stations January 8: Whites, browns. mixed
colors, U. s.; grade, a. large. "a. .. 9.
grade B, large, Al: U. s. grade B, medium,
80. Total volume of otncially inspected and
graded eggs in WASHINGTON during the
5,264 cases, including $50 cases received
direct from grading stations. Current re-
celpts nearly unsraded eggs, mostly 45,
LIVE POULTRY-Two truckloads ar
rived and were delivered to an authorized
washington ttransportation % charges IN. in.
cluding according to mileage). Broilers
and fryerS, 81 AZ cents
Evening star., 1945-01-03
Chicago Gruin

CHICAGO. Jan. 8 1P.-Wheat and rye
after more than four days OF rising prices
accounted for losses in other grain fu-
lures markets.
Most opening prices were sharply higher
and during the early trade all deliveries
Of wheat, corn and July rye established
sharply on all the bulges and quotations
fiuctuated erratically
Demand for wheat centered in the de-
ferred contracts, July and September, and
trade sources, attributed some Of the buying
70 report the Government plans to draft
lS to % year old farm laborers. Such
l945 wheat production
At the finish. wheat was " to, IN
higher than yesterdays close, May, 1914.
Corn, was UNCHANGED to "a lower. May
llsdl31s, Oats were OF 70 to V, May.
osSs-12. Rye was "a lower to 70 higher,
May, l17h-h. Barley was UNCHANGED,
May LIZ.
Evening star., 1945-01-03
New York Cotton

NEW YORK. Jan. 8 R).-Cotton fu-
toss uss raa a. Is much raa. 60 spd eess bale
house buying based on expectations OF
continued Government support Of cotton
i prices.
4 I. LARGEST gains were registered In the
distant months. which sold ct discount
4 Railying tendencies in the nearby position
were checked by considerable profit taking
and hedging
Late afternoon prices were Is to s5
1 2.O2, and July, 21 rs
Evening star., 1945-01-03
nOntnIy advances.
Job Institute Date Set,

Ralph Endicott, Washington Loan
& Trust Co., will preside at a job
relations training institute to be
held here during the week of Jan.
uary %, sponsored by he ABA
American institute of Banking chap
ters in the District, Maryland
Western Pennsylvania, Delaware
and Richmond, Va, will be repre-
sented.
Hawley Smith, chairman of the
District Building & Loan Leagues
Banquet Committee, expects soc
building and loan folks and special
guests at the annual dinner at the
Mayfower on Saturday, January 27
Many Government officials have
been invited.
Evening star., 1945-01-03
Weather Report

District Of Columbia Increasing
cloudiness this afternoon with high
near 40. Mostly cloudy with occa-
sional light snow, low near freezing
tonight. Partly cloudy, not quite
so warm tomorrow.
Maryland-Light snow, not so
cold tonight. Partly cloudy, rather
cold tomorrow with snow flurries
In mountains.
Virginia Cloudy and not so cold
with occasional light snow tonight.
Partly cloudy and rather cold to-
morrow with snow hurries in noun
tains in north portion.
River Report.
| ! Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers
cloudy at Harpers Ferry. Potomac
muddy at Great Falls.
Evening star., 1945-01-03
Foreign Exchange

NEW YORK. jan 3 Pp-Foreirn ex-
change rates follow (Great Britain n dol
lars, others in cents).
Canadian dollar In New York open mar
get, lOh per cent discount or 80 9.S7N q. 81
cents. UNCHANGED - " -. =
"a. OF; selling, S40l. - '--s'
Latin america: ArtentinA,. ire, z4.Se,
nnchanssd; 1rastl. free, 6.26n; Iexico.
Evening star., 1945-01-03
Deposits on December 80, 1914.
Total -------.S $3.50, ,756,433. SO
Postal Receipts at New Peak.


Breaking all previous records fol-
any month, postal receipts at the
City Post Office in December reached
$2,046, ,72792. against $1,732, ,470.4s in
December. 1943, sharp increase OF
$314,25744, or 1914 per cent, Post
master Vincent c. Burke announced
today.
The new peak in postal revenues
was due to the heaviest Christmas
business yet handled, the increase in
local postal rates and wartime activ-
tiles. 1t was the first time in the
history of the Office that monthly
receipts have crossed the $4,000, 900
mark, Mr.. Burke said.
Receipts for the full year totaled
$16,811 ,036.75, compared with S13,-
GAL ,208.69 in 1943. an all-time peak,
gain of S2,869, ,828.06, and about
double receipts of only five years
ago. Comparisons with last year de-
pict the rapid monthly advances:
Evening star., 1945-01-03
|Odd-Lot DECLINES

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 8 go.--The -
eurities Commission reported today these
dealers or SPECIALISTS on the New York
Stock Exchange for January 2: 1850 pur-
nssss ais. ,ny1ynE s:fes Sns
"a short sales involving 1.25S shares.
Western Cartridge Co. elected John
M. Olin president to succeed his fa-
ther, Franklin w. Olin.
Evening star., 1945-01-03
ApprOximate Sales Toda,

l1:00 an Aoo 900 1900 noon ee7 l6o
100 pm. / 24e ITO 200 pm. 5s3 $50
tUnit of trading 10 shares; sales printed
IN full. r In bankruptcy or receivership or
being reorganized under Bankruptcy Act
are annual disbursements based on last
quarterly OF semi-arnuas. DECLARATION. p4-
dends are not included. xKx dividend.
II * rtghts. Also extra or EXTRAS. Cash
or Stock PAID last year. Payable n
b Payabk "a canedisn lunds. 4 Accumu-
Evening star., 1945-01-03

Rates Of dividends in the foregoing tabl
are annual Disbursements based on the las
less otherwise noted. special or extra div
idends are not included. Z Also extra .
sxtrass Cash or stoek Pau last year
far this year Payable In csnadial
funds. Accumulated dividends paid o
declared this year WE With warrants
xH Without NArrAntA
Evening star., 1945-01-03
Report for Last "a Hours
Record for Last "a Hour

Record for Last "a Hours.
From noon yesterday to noon today)
Highest, SO, noon today. Year ago, A
Lowest 21, 2:45 am. Year ago, 32.
Record Temperatures This Year.
ioh La.
Evening star., 1945-01-03

Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast
and Geodetic Survey
Evening star., 1945-01-03

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Am Snuff 2.4oe-
, Am Stl Fdrs q
Am Stores Tag
: Am Stove 1.20--
Am Sug Ref 3g-.
Am Sug r pf =
Am Sumatra 2e-
Am Tel & Tel O.
Am Tob ga -
Am Tob 3 3a -
tam Tob pf g..
Am Type F 1ae-.
Am Viscose a
Am Water Wks-
Am Woolen
Am Woolpf 12k-
Am Zinc
Am 2 pr pf l Ak
Anaconda 2ke- ]
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AnchHockG 1e-.
Andes Copper l.
A P w Prod
Arch D NJ 2Ke--
Armour & Co
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Artloom Cp 40
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Austin Nichols
Autocar CO.
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Bald Lo ct he-
BALTIC & Ohio II
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Bangor & Ar
tBan&Apf TAX
Barber Asph Ag.
Barker Bros a4g-
tBarker pf 2s4-.
BarnsdaIl .60a
Bath IrnWks 1g-
Bayuk Gig 1ka-
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Beech-Nut IA
Beld Hem so
Bell Aircraft 1e-
Bendix Await B..
BenefLoan1.35e
Best&Co l.60a-
Best Foods lzg--
Beth Steel 6 !.
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Bigelow-Sanf p
Bla ck & D 1.60a
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Bliss&Laug he
Boeing Aero 2e-
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tBon Am B 2k.
Borden Co 1.70e
Borg War I.6o--
! Boston & Me -
Branih Air go
BridgeportB. .90e
Briggs Mfg 2
Briggs g. STRAIT
BklynUnGas Ag
Brunswick-Bk1-
Bucyrus-E zoe
Budd Mfg
+ Budd Mfg pf 5 z
Budd Wheel Ae-
Buff Forg 1.S0--
Bullard Co -
Bulova Witch q.
Buri Nils aloe
Burrs Ad M 80
Bush Term Ne.
tBush Ter pf 8
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Butler Bros. 60
Butte Cop&ZAe
Byers AM Kae =.
tByers AM Of T. I
ByronJack1 Ae-
Calf Packg / n
tCalif PIX pf 2h.
Callahan Zinc
Calumet&H 80
Camp Wy 1 Ne
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Cerro de Pas 8.
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City Stores W -
Clark EQUIP 3--
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Coml Credit 2
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| Comw g. Sou /.
| Com&Soupf1A Xxx
Conde Mast 1e--
Congoleum Ia
Cons Cigar "a
| icons Cg pf 4A
| Con Copper .1Oe
| Cons Eds 80
Cons Eds of 8
Con Film Ind lie.
Cons Film pf TX :
Cons Laun.S5
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ConsRR Cub pf
Cons Vultee izg,.
Cons vul pf 1A.
Consdn Coal
tConsum pf Az
Container l he
Cont Baking kg
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Cont Diam r ke ,
Cont Ins 1.60a
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Cont Oil D 1.20- J
Cont Steel 2e
Cooper-Bess1 1ae
Coppervld so 4
fCorn Exc 2.40- &
Corn Prod 2.60-
fCorn Pro pf p {
Evening star., 1945-01-03
Dividends Announced

There is why for every bond you
buy-buy War Bonds today and
make them pay.
Evening star., 1945-01-03
N. 7. Bond Market

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Evening star., 1945-01-03

The Sun and Moon.
Evening star., 1945-01-03

Humidity Report.
Evening star., 1945-01-03

Highest, 55. on January /.
Lowest, ID. on January 2.
Evening star., 1945-01-03
Washington Exchange

SALES. ee
Columbia Title Ins.-25 at IL.
nnNYsa
Evening star., 1945-07-05

own compositions and those Of his
more harmonious contemporaries.
His progress to the podium OF the
Radio City Music Hall--the largest
assembly place Of its kind in the
world-was steady and methodical.
So, too, his radio activity was a nat
ural and logical development.
No one appreciated his good for
tune more profoundly than Mr..
Rapee himself. without apology he
confessed that his earliest employ
ment in America was that of piano.
thumper in an East Side goulash
restaurant. The triumphs he at
tanned thereafter were achieved by
hard labor. They reached an audi
ence of millions because they were
correlated to mass patterns and
techniques Of distribution. Without
movies, machine recording and radio
broadcasting only very few people
would, have heard or enjoyed them.
Evening star., 1945-07-05
The CuroIinu Reefs

Emerging eastward from the shadospg
pines
That fringe fhe inner shores ef salt
Ingoons,
1 glimpse the reefs beyond Uhsrs stsx.
light shines
intensely on ths stark. piSsd -mc5ded
dfI4ses.
Against thsss .arros0 barriers, the tide
L0ys siege sterHa1ly. a sNlIcn Your
Voices the fury OF thS sea deJged
BY this detensefess bat uryietdins
Hoss long has man NTH seomdsr- psrtsd
lips
Stood ntarveling ichere the wild scsyss
stornted the land, &
Scattering from their path his 6vcssss
ships,
Strssping his rapsged eseyoss ~ bhs
Sand.
Intrepid man tcho pits his parg HE
Against ths odds of elemental strsfes
ugEz BARCLAY KIRBY.
Evening star., 1945-07-05

enemy resistance continues, the OUT
come Is assured.
With the fall of Balikpapan, the
Japanese have lost their last impor-
tant base on Borneo. Huge though
the island is-a squarish block OF
land with an area of nearly 100000
square miles, larger than Texas.
it has few harbors and its interior
is a virtually unexplored mass of
jungle-clad hills and mountains
thinly inhabited by primitive tribes.
With almost no overland communi-
cations. Japanese occupation was re-
stricted to few districts along the
coast where European settlement
and exploitation had occurred. Thus,
Allied recaptre of the few key
points should effectively eradicate
Japanese resistance, and Borneo can
fully serve its larger strategic
purpose.
Evening star., 1945-07-05
Emo Rupee

The sudden and untimely death
OF Emo Rapee gives occasion for an
appraisal of the part which radio
broadcasting is playing in the de-
mocratization of the art of music.
His career most notably demon
strated the power of wireless COM
munication in that division of the
cultural field. Though by no means
the first great conductor to put the
best music on the air, he was for
more than a decade a leader in
orchestral enterprise in that me-
dunn. His work for the National
Broadcasting Company as far back
as 1881 set model for other sys-
TENS.
But to understand Mr.. Rapee's
services properly it is necessary to
know that he came into radio from
motion pictures. Born in Budapest
In 1891, he still was but a youth
when he arrived in New York in
1912. His appearance, as it hap
pened, conceded with the start of
the feature" phase Of the movies.
Cinema was growing up" famous
stars Of the legitimate stage were
consenting to act for the camera,
exhibitors needed first-class music
as setting" for the new classic
variety Of program. The young Hun
garian maestro seized the oppor-
tunity with a characteristic enthusi-
ssm. He was, in succession, musical
director of the Rialto, the Capitol
and the Roxy Theaters. Hollywood
claimed him for while as con-
ductor Of spectacle" Aims which
enjoyed vast popularity. Meanwhile,
he made photograph records Of his
Evening star., 1945-07-05
Mr.. Byrnes Is Skillful
By Raym ond Moley

Whatever else history may record Of
Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, 1t
will also set down that he was possessed
OF the longest and most sensitive cats
whiskers in Washington. Not much
about man can be hidden after three
decades OF service under Washington
lights In the House, in the Senate, on
the Supreme Court and in the executive
ofices of the White House.
In his long experience in both houses
Of Congress, MIR. Byrnes probably held a
record Of miles walked, words whispered
and spoken to colleagues. condolences
received and power substantially exer-
cised. He spent very few moments in
ponderous oratory or philosophical spec
ulation. He knew more of what was go
ing on in Congress than any other mern-
ber. And he probably had more real
friends. ~
His policy has been caution, but not
merely immohile caution. 1t was action,
governed by quick and intelligent COM
prehension of every contingency. With
his talents he moved through the viii
derness of politics with remarkable speed
and phenomenal safety.
well remember that in the presiden-
tial campaign Of 1882. when the group
around the somewhat impetuous Gov.
Roosevelt Of New York looked for a
guide and adviser who could warn of
dangers and political indiscretions. we
found what we needed in Mr.. Byrnes
He was the candidates companion on
all his campaign trips. He knew where
to 60 and when and he knew what to
avoid and why
1t is the genuine expertness OF this
political maestro which offers the great
est promise of his success as Secretary
Of State. Political experience is one
qualification which man in that posi-
ton must have. 1t is no accident that
Evening star., 1945-07-05
This Changing World
By Constantine BroiOn

Former Assistant President" James r.
Byrnes, who took over directing the
State Department Tuesday, is fully
aware that he has undertaken the
toughest and most responsible job he
has ever bargained for.
President Truman has made 1t clear
that Mr.. Byrnes will be Secretary OF
State in fact as well as in name. The
last man to have been the actual policy
Trainer of this country was Charles
Evans Hughes, in whose hands President
Harding placed the full responsibility of
the conduct of America S foreign policies.
Mr.. Byrnes Is faced with job much
more complex than that of his distin-
guished predecessor OF quarter of a
century ago. He will have to conduct
Americas foreign affairs in seething
world and at the same time will be
forced, If he wants to be successful to
make radical changes in a department
which has become so top-heavy and OBJ
solete that 1t Is no longer the answer to
present world conditions.
Mr.. Byrnes is known to have mind
of his own. While comparative novice
in foreign affairs, he served his appren-
ticeship In the White House, where from
the inside he saw President Roosevelt
and his White House advisers on foreign
affairs at work. He may lack the
necessary background on the complex
European and Asiatic questions, but he
Is fully familiar with all the commit
ments and pledges this administration
has made to our wartime Allies.
***
The new Secretary of State Is regard
ed by his former colleagues in the Sem
ate as an astute politician. He has not
yet tried his skill on the infinitely more
complex international scene, but those
who have worked with him in the past
believe he can be compromising or tough,
as the circumstances may require.
Mr.. Byrnes' friends believe that he
will not be carried away by emotions
and the high-sounding phrases he will
hear in his dealings with foreign pow
ers. But at the same time he strongly
believes that we can and must cooper
ate-without giving up our individuality
with the nations of the world.
No Secretary of State, regardless of
how able and conscientious he may be,
can carry the tremendous burden of
work on his shoulders alone. He will
need able assistance from the personnel
of the State Department, composed of
many men who have made it their life
job to observe and understand foreign
nations. Unless he has o first-class