The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-01-20
GL0BAL
 CRUSADE
 PLANNED
President His Communism in Announcing Bold
 Program by U. 5.
By JOHN M. HIGHTowER

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.-tR- President Truman today pledged a global crusade for peace, plenty and freedom in a blistering inaug- ural speech denouncing the false philosophy of Communism and war.
 The chief executive keyed his ad- dress to the quickening struggle between the democratic west and the communist east.
 While he cautioned that Ameri- cas- material resources are limited, MT. Truman promised to draw deeply on the "inexhaustible' re- sources of this country's technical know-how to help free peoples ev- anywhere.
 Communism holds that war is inevitable" MT. Truman told mass ed thousands in the Capitol Plaza immediately after taking his oath of office for an elected four year term. And even now, he said, it is "endangering attempts to keep world peace.'
 But he declared that as a result of American efforts hundreds of millions of people all over the world l now agree with us that we need | not have war
 Bold New Program These efforts must now be ex- banded, he said, to include gi- gantic bold new program of for eign economic development, aimed at wiping out misery, hunger and despair in backward areas all over the world.
 MT. Truman listed that as one of four major courses of action to be stressed in coming years.
 Security Pact He also called for security pact with Western Europe, which he hopes to send to the Senate "soon," and he promised to strengthen non- Communist countries cooperating with American security plans by providing them U. s. military ad- 1ice and equipment.
 His proposed new program for improving conditions in the areas which might cfier breeding place for Communism amounted to a call for new front in the cold war. Tn this endeavor the cooperation of allied nations would be warmly welcomed the President said.
 World Conditions
 More than half the people of the world are living in conditions approaching misery" MT. Truman declared
 Their food is inadequate. They are victims of disease. Their econ- omic life is primitive and stag nant. Their poverty is a handicap and threat both to them and to more prosperous areas"
 To combat those conditions he proposed enlisting American capi- tai investments and industrial skills plus any assistance which might come from other sources.
 American Aim
 Our aim,' he said, should be to help the free peoples of the world, through their own efforts. to pro- duce more food. more clothing, more materials for housing, and more mechanical power to tighten their burdens. We invite other countries to pool their technological resour- ces in this undertaking
 Truman Plan
 The Truman Plan" for world betterment constituted the only new point in the Presidents four main courses of foreign policy ac- ton. Under the other three this nation would:
 l. Continue ''unfaltering support to the United Nations and search for ways to strengthen it. 2. Continue programs for world economic recovery, first, through the European Recovery Program; second. by increasing world trade.
 3. Strengthen ''freedom-loving nations against the dangers of aggression"
 MT. Truman ilatly promised: We will provide military advice and equipment to free nations which