The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-01-02
President Truman Says Outlook
For World Peace Has Improved

: WASHINGTON Il - President
Truman said here the outlook for
world peace is better now than it
was year ago.
Truman explained. at his last
news conference of 1852, that
he was referring to the outlook for
the cold war in all parts of the
world.
He said no new plan for hasten
ing the end of the Korean War has
been submitted to him. But he add
ed that obviously he could not talk
about such plan even if one ex-
listed, unless it was something to
be put into operation Immediately.
Truman announced he will ap-
pear on radio and television Jan.
Is from 1920 to 11:0O p. m, East
ern Standard Time, to report to
the people on the state of the ma
ton.
This address, he said, viii con-
tain some material in addition to
what he will give Congress in his
formal state-of-the-union message
early next week. He will not APP
pear before Congress in person.
The President began his meeting
with reporters by expressing sharp
regret that Secretary of Agricul-
ture Brannan has had to make adj
ditional restrictions on imports of
dairy products-as announced re-
cently-under requirements of the
Defense Production Act.
This is the wrong thing to do,
Truman said, adding that he is
not in favor of it at all. But he
said Brannan was obliged to i'm
pose the new restrictions under the
law.
Truman avoided comment on two
controversial issues, Gen. Douglas
MacArthur's latest blast at him
and the status of diplomat John
Carter Vincent.
He had only a soft voiced nc
comment when asked about Mac
Arthur's suggestion last week that
the Pr resident was using the
"bloody drama" of Korea las a
means of self-glorification."
MacArthur's statement stemmed
from Truman's own quoted remark
to an interviewer that the general
wanted to involve us in an about
war in the Far East" Macarthur
retorted that he had not proposed
to extend the Korean War but only
to end it.
In the Vincent matter, Truman
said only that the case of the ca.
reer diplomat has not reached him
yet. (HiS counsel, Charles Murphy,
is known to be studying the case.)
A federal loyalty board has
found there is a reasonable doubt
about the loyalty of Vincent, once
State Department China policy.
maker and now minister to Tan.
J gier. II is up to Truman and Sec.
rotary of State Acheson to decide
whether Vincent should be fired.
On other matters Truman sup.
piled these comments:
/. Prime Minister Churchill Of
Great Britain undoubtedly will talk
with him about such things az
shoes and ships and sealing wax.
q line lifted from alice in Wonder
land" to denote a variety Of sub
jeets--when Churchill pays a cour-
teSy call at the White House and
has dinner with the President,
following his talks with President
elect Eisenhower next week.
2. If senator Robert A. Taft Of
Ohio has his way, the country I'M
doubtedly viii get back on a track
it abandoned with the beginning
of the New Deal. Taft said In
New York yesterday, after a meet
ing with Eisenhower, that he ex-
pected progressive" Republican
legislative program which ''will put
the country back on the road we
abandoned 20 years ago."
3. The Senate. said ex-senator
Truman, ought to find some way
to end filibusters. He declined spe-
cific comment, however, on plans
by a group Of Northern Democrats
and some Republicans to start a
fight against the filibuster when
the Senate meets to organize on
Saturday.