Show I 1 I 1 washington diepp 1 V I 1 I 1 president talks everyone I 1 I 1 wants to get i ih fi on the act t I 1 I 1 bf K 1 I 1 I 1 1 news analyst an d commentator I 1 0 I 1 tha f was talking to the tha general it was obvious that the general wasas was as ag bored as his secretary 1 I I 1 looked her interrupted dictation on her crossed knee sho bho uncrossed as tho tilo generals fene fone rais rals oyo eye wand wandered ered eted 0 the colonel was wab wa the arelys N no 0 I 1 specialist ailt allt on the gadi t which was wai about t to 6 rev rov revolutionize ol 01 ut warfare to the colonel could ana and auld if begot he got a chance tell you ohp colonel knew the hattory of the 01 gadgets Kd et development 1 1 11 41 from lt it 15 crude crudo ru d e emmi erml erni ilmo I 1 ell til az tte stage tze whon when primitive s it I 1 A was wai it caused L the entire re reon or I 1 of the 1 f tactics of t the h e ok 4 1 1 knight knights u under n d e r 1 I otto the great I 1 first king of the A germans germ an i lie 1 at could trace its I 1 evolution d down 0 w n through the days day of delicate interplay when it broke up the empire of charlemagne and ind on down to the fall of stalingrad Stal ingrad the colonel had brought the general about up to the third punic war and the secretary wis wit wa wiggling the general himself had begun to rumble with form aa 1129 the colonel realized that he was wad rapidly losing hia his audience so he raised hla hia voice ao so that file tile clerks la in the next office stopp topped d filing their fingernails and laok looked d up by the he way general he remarked did you know that im writing 00 he presidents president omd axt speech the one he delivers to the inter inger plane plano tary association 4 ahe the general secre secretary tary perked up the general raised an eyebrow the colonel smiled at about the same hour over la in the metropolitan club a very dapper young man from the division ot of the far ner near ano an middle east and expert in economic ethic pathology was sipping a thin scotch and soda ioda which his chief had just ordered his chief was bored by the way chief he said in 1 a whisper ao to loud that even the t weiters waiters stopped looking respectful and listened im writing the presidents next speech at the inter planetary association associations confer nce ence nee in tour four other places four other young experts were telling their bones the same thing all were ii perfectly honest all were believed and in 20 minutes or so 10 I 1 raphers clerks messengers wait an ars and cab driver drivers were pointing out the vu guy who writes the presidents speeches ethes AH at has heem been coing going on I 1 suppose oppose la in world CAP capitals tace alnee lace before some same somebody body elsw else thought he had codified the code of um ham what re really kenily ally alry happens la Is this ab tha the president calls caus in one of b his snore or literary secretaries sil all of them are literate but not all au liter 1 I 1 ary some those whose duties are conversing with politicians dont haye hare to be too literate the president sao say to the literary one bill in Ws this speech I 1 have to write for tor the inter lnier planetary conference fm rth going to mention the super gadget and I 1 want to touch on cc the current economic and social situation in Be lurla luria also there are some sama erosion statistic statistics I 1 need deed and same some data on the problems which arose as a result of the whiskey rebellion okeh chief says aay the ilien liter ary siry secre secretary iary uary and abd OB an ais als hi way back hack to hia his office he begins beens I 1 classify tur tug ug according t to depart meats the people be he thinka thinks may have the facts recta er or the people wha who WUI will know who knol know somebody some body who has the toe facts he re either phones phone or dictates dictate a brief memo to these people request requesting big bir not mere more than one ona page from each ea an the suba indicated I 1 highly pleased pressed young and old I 1 hlen hien men on receipt atthe of the tho memo or phone call begin leafing through their rehei research ach libraries and die dic lating tating to their secret secretaries aries arlea in two to days a number of large packages seg teg are delivered to the white house ti via special messengers the literary ai secretary curses and sets seta to 1 work boiling down a 24 page pago thesis I 1 on the progression of tau fau mute from the sanskrit et elia elja to a sen tence tene kind and a half which he has his 7 I 1 sten stenographer a ype type into the rough draft of the speech which the president has dictated aud and sent to him for the vur Our purpose pose I 1 franklin roosevelt became angered because columnists column fits lits persisted la ia reve revealing aUng which confidential adviser wrote the last speech be delivered whatever it was way that he one once showed us the actual draft ot of a speech he had dictated and writ ten tm and rewritten re written as was his I 1 custom in fact the last minute revising of or inte interlinked interlined Inter late lined nuru manuscripts scripts ettea aften went oa co while an hounds growled la in she the outer r office and stood by i to handle ON tee sheda sheds I 1 la in hakea 1 1 az 7 I 1 I 1 t i X I 1 i t X au s C 40 I 1 C I 1 1 I 1 1 7 I 1 L I 1 V 4 i 7 4 Preside rit tit truman got a uttie peeved re recently dently dver over 4 we tuc same iloe tine of columnar chat chatter tirl and va beran began began beean to let iet lei let it be known that be could write writa himself hl melt of course court all presidents get advice counsel assistance and inspiration from many men mm of many minds of 01 course there a ane are a humanitarian and grammarians sty stylist lists and carlyll lats lt and geographers economists econom isis tali and agronomists rus Ku russians and persian persians upon whom be he can call if it the need arise arlie and somehow or other each and all if they but contri contribute buta bufa one jot or tittle to the sacred paper think they wrote the whole or at least lea iea it the stenographer who had to take down all the stutt stuff hopefully offered for possible presidential use thinks a 0 o and tells her friends spout about tt it confidentially the problem of presidential speeches la Is much to the fore these days for this reason president truman and his advisers despite the rebel yells the walls of the defeatists the triumphant roar of the elephant and the ominous hoof beats of the polls as they gallup downhill sliu still believe be he has a fighting chance to return in november to the white house and he intends to fight for it it the president is in going on a speaking tour of the west of course it a campaign that would be undignified and immodest before the convention has asked he lie will speak unde undo no political sponsorship but he will speak and he is going to ad lib as we say in the trade even if it we had our ears conditioned for 13 12 long year years by the golden goiden voice that breathed over the fi resides the oratory of ot harry truman when he reads a speech be it ever so humble never would be mistaken for the vox humana or the angels chorus bu but it when harry trumen truman gets up tip and taik talk hes he bes very human very ensi sensible enst ble bie and not altogether un n pers persuasive e so 60 from now on bes be hes going kohm ie to speak extemporaneously no matter how bow much prepa preparation bation tation it take takes ile he showed what he could do with out notes or manuscript and without learning by rote when he addressed the newspaper publishers rs and the gridiron club in april and again in may when he talked off the cuff to the tho national conter confer ence once on family life ilfe in washington and since such speeches arent written nobody can say bay be wrote to them for him 0 0 0 4 vill will to peace pence finds expression next month a national conference for the prevention of world war ili III will be held on the cam grinnell college in iowa row a the purpose Is to present a definite concrete working plan to prevent a third world war methods which can be presented to the two PAt national Ional lonal political conventions at philadelphia la the roster of speakers will include representatives of many ot of the organizations now working for a single sovereign world organization winston churchill Is I 1 hammering steadily at his purpose of buit bult dinc ding a uni united lif lis d S states utes ol 01 europe although h the attlee cov government ha has not approved the idea the prime minister himself has ha spoken words of coco coca encouragement abaffe ent euh cut regarding the formation ef al 8 a real otobe of the western union gunion attlee even went so far as to say that britain was willing willin 9 to sacrifice her sovereignty in part to bring it about although he qualified the promise by saying sayin g the time was not riot yet ripe for such I 1 a step but churchill wants rants to strike now he lie received considerable support from the unofficial gathering in iri the hacus a corurn forum they called it coin coln composed posed of bf representatives of the marshall plan co countries un plus exiled leaders chiu chius chlus proposals and the Grinnell conference are sire both part of the tremendous will to peace that curreri currently UY Is finding expression perhaps eventually we wt will learn that great lesson lesion of history to yield the sovereignty that causes wars wan to the kind of sovereignty that allows n not ot only the other freedoms to the individual but which also will give him freedom from the FEAR of war just as the of atthe the uhe imparate ie parate colonies made the citizen of the state 1 of new york tee tree from the fear of war with the state of pennsylvania a sItu situation atton atlon possible because both recognize a higher sove save sovereignty re igney ow B united called states 9 j 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