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Show News fix Behini THEfNlg By-PaULMaLLON JS' Released by Western Newspaper Union. BOW PRESIDENT MEETS HIS PROBLEMS WASHINGTON. Mr. Hannegan Is taking nothing for granted. The political pal of the President actual-: ly sent skilled scouts outjfinto vari-j dus sections of the country to ascertain ascer-tain how the new moves from the White House are regarded. He did Qot trust polls, even hisown, but; wished detailed reports. From all sections the answer was about the same. In effect, they amounted to an enthusiastic go-sthead go-sthead sign on the line Mr. Truman is hewing with his cabinet changes, legislative suggestions and foreign ( policy. I Mr. Hannegan was told by his ' selected agerits the nation had warmed up to methods of the executive, execu-tive, although the leftwing crowd, embodying the stereotyped New Dealers, was a little restless and inclined in-clined to indulge In a few carom shots. As a matter of observable Eact the CIO, for a prime example, did not endorse the Schwellenbach appointment to labor, possibly because be-cause the new cabinet man is a northwest political associate of AFL boss Dave Beck. They did not like Mr. Biddle's invited exit as attorney general either. But Mr. Truman evened it up by presenting the unemployment un-employment pay maximum of $25 a week which CIO devised anl lost at the last session of congress, further j by asking the dictatorial govern-1 ment reorganization powers Mr. Roosvelt wanted and failed to get, by having his Mr. Vinson go out for the New Deal peace-planning program, pro-gram, by pushing successfully in the house for the Bretton Woods agreement, agree-ment, which the CIO and Mrs. I Roosevelt have been promoting as If to put bankers in their place and some other steps. Indeed, there has been nothing for the radicals to complain about. Nothing upon which they could lay their restless fingers in accusation, although a target may be provided shortly when the wage increases fail to measure up to their demands. de-mands. In bulk, however, Mr. Truman's Tru-man's program is the one they devised. de-vised. Indeed, while Frankfurter and Mrs. Roosevelt have lost their appointive influence, Mr. Truman has insisted upon keeping their best friends, Treasury Secretary Mor-genthau Mor-genthau and Judge Rosenman, domestically, while also holding on to Harry Hopkins and Mr Stettinius internationally. Different Spirit. Mr. Truman has simply been doing do-ing the same things in a different ! spirit, following the same line but in j a different way and evening things up a little. You can see it in the reorganization re-organization proposal. While Mr. T. demanded the power Mr. R. wanted, he did not want to write the bill himself but would leave it to congress. con-gress. He has sent up no prepared bills on any important subject, but is respecting the position of congress. The carom shots have so far developed from the Russian problem. The country shows signs of breaking into two schools of thought on this. Most people seem to feel Moscow has i treated us obscurely, if not badly, bad-ly, on practically every late issue of the war and peace, except Argentina, Ar-gentina, the one point we have won and they do not like that either. The radical journals in New York have generally become be-come so one-sided that they defend de-fend every Russian interest and attack every American step, bitterly bit-terly assailing the state department depart-ment at every opportunity. This shows a rather thoughtless and purely political enthusiasm. Yet even on this problem, the President Presi-dent Is being backed by a strong majority in the country as a whole. Mr. Truman has thus managed tc achieve popular unity, which th methods of the Roosevelt regime prevented. A heavy majority of peo pie have been found willing to forgei past differences and to close tht ranks of this nation before the worlo in order to maintain its prestige and smash the Japanese. The Anti-New Deal Democrats well know Mr. Truman is support ing Roosevelt policies and person ages but are not criticizing him here or elsewhere, in their relief over the way he has been trying to even things up. It is a remarkable job when you stop to think about the difficulties with which he was faced. COMPLETE VICTORY It was a hard war program which Mr. Truman put before congress. con-gress. His primary point was that we must drive the Japs to unconditional uncondi-tional surrender. While recognizing the sincerity of those who oppose this "tough" policy, pol-icy, I believe that any procedure ex- cept the Roosevelt-Truman policy of unconditional surrender is not j only impractical but impossible j and the hope of many people to save lives by offering conditional surrender. surren-der. I |