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Show 7 . " I News fix BEHINI , By RmjlMaLLON Released by Western Newspaper Union. 1 HOW PRESIDENT I MEETS HIS PROBLEMS ' WASHINGTON, Mr, Hannegan , is taking nothing for granted. VfA ' political pal of the President acttoi ly sent skilled scouts out into vari-1 ous sections of the country to ascertain ascer-tain how the new moves from the White House are. regarded. -He did not trust polls, even his own, but t wished detailed reports. From all sections the answer was ! about the same. In effect,- they 1 amounted to an enthusiastic go- i ahead sign on the line Mr. Truman I Is hewing with his cabinet changes, legislative suggestions and foreign policy.. 1 1 Mr. Hannegan was told by; his selected agents 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 fact 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 j Mr. Biddle's invited exit as attorney 4 general either. But Mr. Truman I evened it up by presenting the un-1 .employment pay maximum of $25 a week which. CIO devised and lost at the last session of congress, further by asking the dictatorial government govern-ment reorganization powers Mr. Roosvelt wanted and tailed 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. Roosevelt have been promoting as if to put bankers in their placed and some otjier steps. Indeed, there has been nothing for the radicals to complain about. Nothing upon which they coiflcfclay their restless fingers in accusation, although a target may be provided shortly twhen '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. Stettinlus internationally. Different Spirit. Mr. Truman has simgl been doing do-ing the same things tna different spirit, following the same line but in 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. con-gress. 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 treated lis obscurely, Jf not badly, bad-ly, on practically every late Issue of the war and peace, except Argentina, Ar-gentina, the one point we have ; won nd they do not like that either. The radical Journals in , New York have generally be-" be-" come so one-sided that Jhey defend de-fend every Russian Interest and attack every American step, bit-' 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..' ' r Mr. Truman has thus managed to achieve ' popular unity," which' the methods of the Roosevelt regime prevented. A heavy majority of people peo-ple have been found willing to forget past diff erences and to close the ranks of this nation before the world in order to maintain its prestige and smash the Japanese, The Anti-New Deal Democrats well know Mr. Truman is supporting support-ing Roosevelt policies and personages 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 con- gress. His primary point was that i we must drive the Japs to unconditional uncondi-tional surrender. r ' While recognizing the sincerity of those who oppose this j'tough". policy, pol-icy, I believe that any procedure except ex-cept the Roosevelt-Trlunan policy of unconditional surrender is not only s Impractical bu$ Impossible and ihn hope of many people to save lives tittering condJtir.ral lurren- rTp;l ISO tlM 10! ev-JTUfffW |