Evening star., 1950-07-20
Truman Has I old People
What They Should Know
Action Gives Great Courage
To Free Motions of World
The Political Mil
By Gould Lincoln

President Truman has told Congress.
ana the American people what they
needed to know-and told it well. In
sequence and impressively the President
has detailed the various steps-of ag.
gression on the part Of the Communist.
and OF defense on the part Of the Re.
public OF Korea and the United Nationi
and particularly the United States
which have created-and at the same
time may have ameliorated-a worL
crisis.
The mobilization of manpower and OF
industry Tor which. the President ha,
asked has undoubtedly given great
courage to the free nations Of the world
He asked for more than $4,000, 600 .OOc
for increasing and supplying the armed
forces Of the United States. This, added
to the nearly SIS, 600. 100000 already on
its way through Congress for the pres
ent fiscal year, Is adequate notice to the
Communist nations that this country
will fight with all its resources and man.
power II further aggression is under
taken. Mr.. Truman, in addition, has
said he will not hesitate to ask for more
men and more appropriations whenever
the need becomes evident.
AggressOrs Never Learn.
Foreign aggressors never appear to
learn that the United States will fight
and fight with everything it has, The
old Kaiser in 1917, Hitler and Hirohito
in 1941. failed to understand either the
intentions or the power of this country.
Whether Stain and the Kremlin in 1850
have learned this lesson has not yet been
disclosed.
Notwithstanding the great dislocations
which the Presidents mobilization plans
will bring, the discomforts, the con-
tinuation of heavy taxes and perhaps
added taxes, Congress is prepared to give
Mr.. Truman the cash and the powers
for which he has asked in his message.
Republican leadership has indicated that
1t will go along with his program for
national defense and for prosecuting the
war in Korea. In the congressional elec-
ton campaign this fall the Republicans
will not hesitate to criticize failures of
the Truman administration in the past
but they are going full steam ahead to
build strong national defense.
The Presidents recital of the events
in Korea recalls vividly the sneak attack
made by Japan on Pearl Harbor, and
the fact that in 1941 this country had al
ready begun to arm strongly-fortu-
nately for the American people.
One Big Advantage.
Our military forces require immediate
strengthening in big way today. But
there is one important advantage in
American hands today-the atom bomb
There Is no doubt the American made
A-bomb will work-it has worked.
There is no doubt, too, that the bomb
has been improved and that we have
more bombs than ever before. How sue
cessful potential enemy has been in
producing such weapons is still matter
Of doubt-and 1t may be decisive in de-
termining the immediate and future
course Of the Kremlin.
Further, the Presidents recital leaves
no doubt in the minds Of people every
where who was the aggressor in the
Korea war-and who was the instigator.
The Kremlin cannot wriggle out Of that
one.
The President has made no request
for new OPA-for price and wage
controls. There Is no present need for
such controls But the American people
can bring it on themselves that
goes for foolish hoarders, prodteers and
labor leaders who may seize on the pres
ent situation to try to boost wages in
ordinately.