Evening star., 1947-03-13
Comment by the Press
Support of Presidents Message
Tempered by Its Serious Import

any President has ever made except
on the occasion of going before Con-
gress to ask for a declaration of
war"
The Boston Herald said the Presi-
dent undoubtedly performed a
great service for Secretary Marshall
who surely needed this strong back
ing at home. -" But Congress and
the people will want to know a
great deal more about this new de-
parture in American foreign pol
icy - ."
The Cleveland Plain Dealer said {:
The inference which runs through
the Presidents talk that the present
governments of, Greece and Turkey
are safely democratic both in name
and in fact, and that we can pro-
mote the broad aims of democracy
by supporting them, is hardly sup
ported by the facts
The New York Herald Tribune
said the President was willing to
make this blunt challenge" as "the
best means to that settlement be-
tween Russia and the West on
which the future hangs"
He means" said the New York
Daily Mirror, that this country says
to Soviet Russia that this war was
not fought to make Russia master
of Europe"
The San Francisco Chronicle said
that the President was correct In
making common cause between the
American people and other
countries of the world where our
kind of freedom still seems to have
a fighting chance to pull through" !"
The Baltimore Morning Sun
called the speech "the most candid
Official description that we have yet
had of the present lamentable
state" of U. S.-U. S. S. r. relations.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch
said, The American people are not
being told what is involved in this
matter over the long pull"
1T is a sweepingly new American
foreign policy" observed the Miami
fla Herald. "It commits us to
direct intervention in the affairs
of foreign governments"
The st. Louis Globe Democrat
said that ut is either a free world
or world dominated by totalitar-
ianism-and the United States is
the only country that can tip the
scales for a free world"
The Chicago Sun asked for assur-
ances that we are really helping a
free and democratic Greece and not
a fascist Greece"
Let the Congress back him to
the limit" said the Portland (Me.)
Press Herald.
The Presidents policy, said Pub
Usher Frank Gannett in the Roches-
ter IN. " Democrat and Chronicle,
might conceivably mean ultimately
war with the Soviets 3. We
must check the spread of commu-
nism ="
THE United States" said the
Philadelphia Inquirer, "is not called
upon to support commitments of
the British Empire unfortunately
=" but we are called upon in our
own interests to lead the hosts of
human freedom and democratic
government"
The situation calls for fighting
fire with fire" said the Portland
Oregonian. The Portland) Oregon
Journal said that Russia is not
given cause of war by American
effort to save the majority gov
ernment in Greece and Turkey from
of the will of armed
The Florida (Jacksonville) Times
expects debate on the matter Ito
clarity Americas postwar foreign
policy. something that has been
needed throughout the Truman ad-
The Buffalo Courier Express said
the Presidents plan might prevent
war 'in the region where the danger
of war is greatest right now"
The alternative to the Presidents
proposal, said the Atlanta Constitu-
ton, is allowing the slow flood of
communism, which thrives on po-
litical chaos and national hunger
and insecurity, to have its free
way ="
The St. Louis Post Dispatch said
the Presidents address committed
the Nation to all-out diplomatic ac-
ton, just as a declaration of shoot
ing war must necessarily follow
when the President asks for it"
Financial aid for Turkey and
Greece, said The Los Angeles Times,
would be down payment, the first
premium on an insurance policy
-"
The Memphis Commercial Appeal
agreed with the President that while
his proposal was serious, "the al
formative is more serious"