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of punishment for unworthy
public servants"
Steady Progress Toward Peace.
President Truman spoke with
satisfaction of his just-concluded
conferences with Prime Minister
Churchill, as he took a look at
the credits" and "debits" on the
Nations balance sheet for the
past year.
I'VE both look forward to steady
progress. toward peace through
the cooperative action and team
work of the free nations" he said.
On the credit side of the ledger,
the President pointed to the addi-
ton of more than a million men
and women to the armed forces
to raise the total to nearly 3.5
million; rapid progress in the
field of atomic weapons" and a
1916 billion output in military sup
Iplies and equipment, or three
times as much as the preceding
lyear In this same connection, the
President said production of
lplanes and tanks and other hard
lgoods" is now running at the rate
of about $1.5 billion monthly, and
lis expected to be doubled a year
from now, in line with new plans
flor air power expansion. But he
Isaid there are stumbling blocks.
Mr.. Truman said also that gen.
Ieral economic conditions in the
country are good. with 81 million
persons employed and wages,
farm incomes and business profits
lat high levels"
U. N. Stronger Than Ever.
On the credit" side, too, the
president declared "the United Ma
tions, the worlds greatest hope
for peace, has come through a
lyear of trial stronger and more
useful than ever"
| He pointed further to the fact
that the Chinese Communists had
been turned back in Korea with
out widening the area of con-
lf1ict." but conceded that "the sit
Iuation in Korea remains very
hazardous. The outcome of the
Iarmistice negotiations is still un-
lcertain." He reiterated that the
Igoal there, still is a settlement
that upholds the principles of
the United Nations"
The strengthened defenses in
Europe, the Japanese peace trea-
Ity and security pacts in the Paci-
lf1c were other developments the
president hailed.
| The darkest spot on the other
Iside of the books. Mr.. Truman
lsaid, was Russia's intransigence,
which has been translated into
Expanded military production and
Ian increase "in it's already exces-
ISive military power"
| Soviet Might Increasing.
| While the Soviet is having in
ternal troubles, the President
warned, "the grim fact remains
THAT the Soviet Union is increas-
ling its armed might. 1t is still
producing more planes than the
free nations. It has set off two
more atomic explosions. The
3world still walks in the shadow
lof another world war"
Citing some shortcomings in
1.-THE defense effort. Mr.. Truman hit
lat the failure to build up civil
defense against atomic attack
an issue on which he has been
Irebuffed by Congress.
He also reported delays in de-
signing and producing latest type
tanks and planes, with some ma
Chine tools and supplies in short
supplies.
Economic dislocations in Europe
caused by the military build-up;
the British Iranian oil contro-
versy and the Communist threat
lin. the Far East, are other road
blocks IN the path of the Allies,
the Chief Executive said.
Not An Overnight Task.
| Summing up. President Truman
declared that while the past year
lhas witnessed real progress" to-
ward peace, I'VE cannot expect to
lcomplete the job overnight. -
But he hit at the 'timid and fear
lful men who wiring their hands
land cry out that we have lost the
way-that we don't know what
we are doing-that we are bound
Ito fail"
In emphasizing that military
and economic aid must be con-
ltinued in Europe. Mr.. Truman as
serted "our Allies are essential to
us just as we are to them" He
added that ''in the long run, we
want to see Europe freed from
lany dependence on our aid" and
Iamplified that "our European Al
lilies want that just as much as
we do"
In Asia, too, he said, there must
lbe increased help. both nfilitarily
land economically.
On the home front. Mr.. Tru-
man said with the next two years