Evening star., 1951-10-15
Soviet Is Key
1oWor|d Peace,
Truman Asserts
U. S. Needs Strength
President Says at
Woke Forest College
By Joseph A. Fox
Sior Siuff CORRESPONDENTS

WINSTON SALEM, N. c., Oct.
f5.-President Truman declared
today that war is not inevitable
but the ultimate decision on war
or peace, he said, rests with
Russia.
"The rulers of the Kremlin can
plunge the world into carnage if
they desire to do so" the Chief
Executive asserted. But that is
something this country will never
do"
Speaking at ground breaking ex-
erciSes for new $25 million Wake
Forest College. which is destined
to supplant the 117-year-old Bap-
tist institution in Central North
Carolina. the President staunchly
upheld the program on which this
Nation has embarked to build the
strength of the free world, and
voiced hope that it will sway the
leaders of the Soviet Union to
LAY aside their aggressive plans
and their phoney peace propa-
ganda." and work with other
peoples for lasting peace.
President Returning Today.
President Truman few down
from the Capital this morning to
join a distinguished company of
North Carolinians for the cere-
mony launching the project, which
is the Joint endeavor of State
Baptists and the Reynolds tobac-
CO family. He returns to Washing
ton in late afternoon.
While he denounced the Soviet
for "the sneaking, creeping kind
of aggression that Hitler prac-
ticed," MIR. Truman, as he has
done repeatedly. asserted that this
Nation always stands ready to seek
peaceable solution of the world s
ills. and cut down armaments.
But he made it clear once more
that there is to be no big three
or big four" meeting, such as
often is advocated for this pur-
pose.
Slaps at Critics.
Pointing to the efforts the
United States started long before
the Soviet Union got the atomic
bomb" to control ornaments and
establish a durable peace, the
President said:
I'VE are ready now, as We have
always been, to sit down with the
Soviet Union. and all the nation.
concerned. in the United Nations
and work together for lifting the
burden of armaments and secur-
ing the peace"
President Truman also took a
couple of oblique slaps at admin
istration critics particularly those
who have been hammering away
on the twin themes of disloyalty
and crookedness in Government,
with an admonition "to the sewers
Of suspicion and the peddlers of
fear, to all those who seem bent
on persuading us that the country
is on the wrong track, and that
there is no honor or loyalty left
in the land. and that woe and
ruin lie ahead"
Look Toward Future"
Il would say one thing" he
continued. Take off your binders
and look toward the future. The
worst danger we face is the dan
ger of being paralyzed by doubts
and fears. This danger is brought
on by those who abandon faith
and sneer at hope. It is brought
on by those who spread cynicism
and distrust and try to blind us
to our great chance to do good
for mankind"
The President drew an analogy
from the history of Wake Forest
to rebuke those who he said have
substituted suspicion and fear"
for faith and hope.
When the bill to charter the
institution came up in the North
Carolina Senate in 1888, there was
a tie vote, 1925. and the college
only came into existence because
the presiding officer voted for it.
Opponents, the President said,
had argued that to incorporate
Wake Forest would lead to "a
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