St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-10-04

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ticker comes the LAUTIER
notice that the President will hold
a press conference. These confer
ences are scheduled for 1890
o'clock in the morning one week
and 4 o'clock in the afternoon the
next week. That is done to give
the morning and afternoon papers
alternately a break.
The reporters gather in the lobby
Of the White House. They talk,
they read, they smoke, and they
kid. They line up against the door
Of the room through which they
must pass to get into the Presi-
dents study. Suddenly the door is
opened. They show their White
House press cards, bearing their
photographs, their finger-prints
and their signature. A voice calls
out, IAN in" The President arises.
OF the 200 or 300 men and women
in the room, only two or three are
colored--one an American, the
other one or two Chinese.
The President makes any an
nouncements he might have. Then
the questioning begins. "Mr. Pres
ident, Secretary Wallace in a speech
to be delivered tonight" The
President interrupts, asks the re-
porter whether he said a speech to
be delivered. The reported saws.
Yes" The President replies that
he can't comment on a speech to
be delivered. But the reporter per-
slsts with his question and tells
the President the speech refers TO
him. Mr.. Truman tells him to 90
on with his question.
The reporter reads a paragraph
from the Wallace speech and asks
the President whether he approved
the whole speech or just the para
graph where Wallace said his words
had Presidential approval. Quick
ly. the President replied he had
approved the whole speech.
A few questions later another re-
porter asked the President whether
he thought the Wallace speech rep
resented departure from Ameri-
can foreign policy.
Again, quickly, Mr.. Truman re-
piled, no, that the Wallace speech
and the Byrnes speech delivered at
Stuttgart, Germany, were in line.
The questioning ends. A voice
booms out, Thank you, Mr.. Presi-
dent" The reporters file out. That
night Mr.. Wallace delivered the
speech.
Two days later at a specially
convened press conference MIR. Tru-
man said he had meant to say at
ms regular press conference that
he approved Wallace's right to
make the speech but that he did
not approve the speech as cOnstitut-
ing American foreign policy.
On the following Tuesday Wal
lace released the text of a 1000
word letter on foreign policy which
he had sent the President on July
%. The next day the President and
MIR. wallace conferred for two
hours and twelve minutes, and when
Mr.. Wallace came out of the Presi-
dents office he told reporters he
had agreed to make no more public
speeches on foreign policy until
after the Paris peace conference.
AT u press conference on the fol-
lowing Friday morning, Mr.. Tru-
man told reporters he had a state
ment which he wished to read them.
The statement announced he had
asked Mr.. Wallace to resign. In a
radio address that night Mr.. Wal
lace said 81 intend to carry on the
fight for peace"
Another aspect Of White House
eOyerage may be CLEANED from the
delegation from the American Cru
SADIE TO End Lynching. This grOup
saw President Truman at 1850
II. M, Sept. %. When they came
out Of the Presidents office, a
group Of reporters were waiting
and ganged up on Paul RObeson,
who headed the delegation and
acted as spokesman.
In these quiz sessions between
White House visitors and the press
no holds are barred. That was par
ticularly true with Robeson. For
example: Robson was asked point
blank whether he was a Commu-
mist. After he replied that he was
a violent anti-fascist," he was
asked whether he followed the Com
munist party line.
ut depends on what you mean
by the Communist party line" he
cOuntered. Right now the Com.
munist party is against lynching
I'm against lynching."
Washington Notes
The new Haitian ambassador,
DR.. Joseph Charles, called at the
State Department the other day to
see Acting Secretary Of State Viii
liam Clayton, who was born in
Tupelo mississippi, the home of
John Rankin, Action on the
FBl report on the probe into the
Recorder of Deeds office will be
deferred until after the November
elections, E. Incidentally, the Rev.
Marshall Shepard, the Recorder of
Deeds, is denying reports that he
is being considered for minister.
ship in the Caribbean area.
The three Negro Republican can
didates for Congress Rey-
nolds who is opposing Representa-
tive Adam Clayton Powell in New
York, Bill King who is opposing
Representative Bill Dawson in Chi
cago, and Fred Roberts who is OPP
posing Representative Helen Gaia
gan DOuglas-were here recently
for two-day strategy conference
with Chairman Carroll Reece OF
the Republican national committee,
Chairman Charley Halleck Of the
Republican Congressional commit