The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1951-01-04
This Week
in
Washington

The report Of President Harry
Truman to the people of the
nation in his recent radio and
televiSion broadcast was moi
alarmist; it was not dramatic. II
was a down-to-earth, factual
recital of the danger which be-
sets this nation and the steps
the government is taking and
proposes to take to meet the
aggression of Communism and
the twin danger of initiation.
No citizen can stand up and
cheer over anything the Presi-
dent said in his matter-of-fact
address, but every citizen can
breathe a prayer, as Sen. Char
les w. Tobey, Republican, of
New Hampshire did when he
said: God help the American
people if we do not all stick to-
gether and support the Presi-
dent of the United States in this
critical emergency.
In Washington, however, on
the same day the President made
his appeal to the American
people, some members of con-
gress continued to sow the seeds
of confusion and diSunity. A
Republican resolution called for
the custer of Dean Acheson as
secretary of state only a few
hours prior to the time the
President announced Acheson
was flying to London to engage
in serious discussions with men,
ber nations of the North
Atlantic Pact. Sen. Joseph Nc
Carthy of Wisconsin continued
his smear and hate campaign in
the senate and engaged in a
public braWl at a private party
with Drew Pearson, newspaper
columnist. The Wisconsin SEN
ator may have tripped himself
because he gave out copies of
a speech which contained state
ments which he did not deliver
on the floor of the senate; hence,
he is not immune to libel suits
on that part of the speech he
did not say on the floor.
There was some comment in
Washington that Governor Tom
Dewey of New York stole the
thunder of the President by
making a radio address the night
before in which he went much
farther than did the President.
However, the cooler, wiser
heads here assert that the Presi-
dents address was much more
comprehensive, was intended to
inform the American people
just where we stand in the mat
ter of preparing the nation for
any eventuality which the
masters of the Kremlin in Mos
cow may decree, and that the
President has information which
Dewey could not have.
Out of the promises of select
i've controls over civilian pro-
duction and consumption, an in
crease of more than a million
men in the army and in increas-
ed navy and air force, out of
demands for increased pro-
duction in all fields of manu-
facture and industry and of
eventual price and wage con-
trolls, the President came up with
a 1851 edition of the old NRA in
a fair standards program. All
who are here on the ground in
Washington know that the con-
troll agencies which have been
set up and over which the
Presient has named Charles Will
son of General Electric as boss,
do not have the manpower to
enforce controls now.
But remembering the effec-
tiveness of NRA back before
and during the early days of
World War II, the same theory
is now to be APPLIED, and woe
to the company or corporation
which fails to live up to those
fair standards pending the i'm
position of mandatory controls.
Some here say that the Presi-
dent should have been more dra-
matte. That the country needed
something which would hit clos
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