Show TIM 0 19 0 president talks everyone wants to get 41 in on the act by ay news analyst and commentator WASHING washington TOM the colonel was talking to the general it was obvious that th atthe the general was as bored as his secretary looked I 1 her interrupted dictation on her crossed knee which she uncrossed as the generals eye wandered the colonel was the arnitt no I 1 specialist on the super gadget which was about to revolutionize warfare as the colonel could and would it if he got a chance tell you the colonel knew the history of tha gadgets development brorn its ita j crudo crude semi gli mo stage when prim primitive etive as it was it caused the entire re or of the tactics ot of t the h e knights under otto the great first king of tho the germans G 0 r in a n a ile he could trace its evolution down d 0 w n through tho the days of delicate interplay when it broke up the empire ot of charlemagne and on down to the fall ol of stalingrad Stal ingrad the colonel had brought the general about up to the third runic war ond and the secretary was wiggling the general himself had 1 begun to fumble with form aa ba the colonel realized that ho he was waa rapidly losing his Is audience so he raised his voice so that file clerks in the next office stopped filing their fingernails and andi looked up by the way general Ic Beral ho he r remarked conf dentally den tilly did d you know that im writing the presidents next speech the one ho he dellvera delivers to id the ilia inter plane tary association the generals secretary perked up i them the general raised an eye brow the colonel smiled at about tho the same hour over in the metropolitan club a very da dapper young man from the division SM near and ald middle east and expert in economic pathology was sipping a thin scotch and soda which his chief had jutt just ordered ills chief wa was s bored bytho way chief he said in a whisper so BO loud thai tha even the waiters stopped looking respectful and listened im writing the presidents next speech atthe at the interplanetary associations conference I 1 i in four other places four other young experts were telling their bosses tho the some same thing all were perfectly honest all were believed and in 20 minutes or so raphers clerks messengers walk wal ers era and cab drivers were pointing out the guy who writes the presidents speeches all this has licen been going on en I 1 suppose Bup pose in world capitals capital since before somebody else thought lie ho had baa codified tho the code of ilam ham marabl what really happens lot Is hist the president calls in one of his more literary secretaries all of them are literate but not nil all literary some those whose duties are converting conversing with politicians dont have to be too literate tho the dent says to the literary ones onel bill in this speech 1 I have to write tor for the interplanetary inter planetary conference im going to mention the super gadget and I 1 want to touch on the current economic and social situation in Bc Bel lurla urlo also there are some come erosion statistics aneed I 1 need and some data on the arose as aa a result ot of the whiskey rebellion okeh chief says say uio tho liter ary secretary and on his way hack back to his office tic he begins classifying according to depart meets the people he thinks may have the cacti acts or tho the people who will 1 I know who knows somebody who has the facts lie he either cither phones or dictates a brief mecio to these people requesting not more thin than one page from each on the subjects indicated highly pleased young and old men or oc receipt of the memo or phone call begin leafing eating through their research libraries and dictating to their secretaries in two days a number of large pac packager kagel are delivered to the white house home via special messengers the liten ary secretary curses and sets to work boiling down a 24 pago page thesis on the progression of tau mute from the sanskrit et ells ella to asen a sentence and a half which he has his stenographer type into the rough draft of the speech which the president has dictated and sent to him for the purpose franklin roosevelt became an because columnists persisted in revealing which confidential adviser wrote the last speech he delivered whatever it was that he once showed us the actual draft of a speech he had bad dicia dictated ted end writ ten and rewritten re written as was his custom in fact the last minute revising of bf Roosevel ts interlined interlinked Inter lined manuscripts often went on en while news hounds growled in iii the tasi outer office mimeograph and I 1 ers stood by to handle the oklyed okayed shoots in takes president truman got a little peeved recently over the same bamo line of columnar chatter and be gan to let it bo be known that he could clotild write himself of course all presidents got get advice counsel a assistance ssi stanco and inspiration from man many y men of many minds of co there are humanitarians and grammarians stylists sty lists and carlyle ests lexicographers and geographers economists and agronomists russians prussians and persians upon whom he can call if the need arises and somehow or other each and all it if they but contribute one jot or tittle to the sacred paper think they wrote the whole or at least the stenographer who hud had to tako take down all the stuff hopefully offered lor for possible presidential use thinks so and tells tell sher her friends about it confidentially the problem of presidential speeches Is much to the foro fora these days foi for this reason president truman and his advisers despite the rebel yells the walls of tho the defeatists the triumphant roar of ct the elephant and tho the ominous hoot hoof beats of the polls as they gallup downhill still believe he has a fighting chance to return in november to the white house and he bo I 1 intends to fight for it the president Is going on a speaking tour of the west of course at it a campaign that would be undignified and almi immodest odest before the convention has asked lie ho will speak under no political sponsorship but he will speak atil and ho he is going to ad lib as wo we say in the trade evert even it if wo we had our ears cars CO conditioned tor for 12 long years by the golden voice that breathed over the fi besides resides the oratory of harry truman when berends he reads rends a speech be it ever so humble never would bo be mistaken for tho the vox humana or the dingels chorus lint when harry truman gets acts up and talks t lies hes very human very sensible anil and not altogether un persuasive sofrom so from now on bes going to speak extemporaneously no ho matter how much preparation it 11 takes tili cs ile ho showed what ho he could do without notes or manuscript sandwith end and without learning by rote whan he addressed the newspaper p publish U april ers and the gridiron club in april and again in may when ho talked off the cuff to the national conference on family liffin life in washington and since such speeches arent written nobody can say may he brot rote them for him i will wih to rice peace rillis finds expression next month a national conference tor for the tha prevention of world war ill HI will be held on the campus of grinnell college in iowa the tha purpose la Is to present a definite concrete con creta working plan to io prevent a third world war methods which can be presented to the two national political conventions ot at philadelphia ak representatives of many of the organizations now working for a single sovereign world organization meanwhile ivingston IVl churchill Is himme xing steadily at his purpose of building a united states of europe AlI although though vie attlee government has not approved the idea the prime minister himself has spoken words of ene encouragement braffe regarding the formation of a real federalization of th the ewest western union attlee even went so tar far as to say that britain was willingto sacrifice her sovereignty la in part to bring it about although he qualified the promise by saying the time was not yet ripe foustch for such a stop step but churchill Church lU wants to strike now iio received considerable support from the unofficial gath cring tn in the blague a forum they called it composed of representatives of the marshall plan countries plus exiled leaders Chur chills proposals and the conference a anre re both part of the tremendous will to peace that currently Is finding expression perhaps eventually we will learn that great lesson of history to yield the sovereignty that causes wars to the kind of sovereignty that allows not only theother the other freedoms to the individual but which alzo will give him freedom from the FEAR of war just as the federalization of the separate colonies made the citizen of the state ofner of new york free from the tear fear of war with the state slate of pennsylvania a situation possible because both recognize ft a sovereignty ill 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