The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 18, 1952, Page 8

Page 8 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Twice He Feared * World War Ill Was On Verge OF | Breaking Out By ED CREAGH: | WASHINGTON . (# — ‘Harry: S. Truman, in his own words, is ay sentimental, lonely man who some- | times feels the White House has turned him into ‘a two-headed ealf”’—a freak in the eyes of the American people. | Mr. Truman believes “there is no indispensable man in a democ- racy.” But is he willing to turn over to somebody else the job he re- gards as the hardest in thé world? The President doesn’t say, al- though he makes this comment on peliticians in general—and he is proud to call himself a politician: “They never get out until they die or are kicked out.” A big $5 book full of these and thousands of other “unrehearsed private thoughts” of the 32nd Pres- ident went on sale today. The title: “Mr. President.” William Hillman, Mutual Broad- casting System commentator, ‘is listed as-the author. But sole 65,- 000 of the 80,000 words are those of Harry Truman himself, ‘They | °” are from his leather-bound diaries, | © his private memoranda, his cor- respondence, his sometimes start- ingly frank conversations. ©" This unprecedented—if uncritical look into the mind and activities of a President still in the White House discloses among other things that: Twice, at least, since he took - _ office, Mr. Truman has feated| times. ‘World War III was on the verge of Locusts Plague Arabia Tuesday, March 18, 1952 “Mr. President’ By Harry S. Truman Is A Best-Sel is SWARM OF LOCUSTS FILL THE SKY over the central area of the Arabian-American oil com- pany quarters in Durham recently during one of the worst scourges. in Saudi Arabia’s modern history. Arab employees of the company beat noisemakers and move about in an attempt to save the lawns and foilage from the locusts, traditional pests of the Middle East since Biblical breaking out, blic figures and his accounts of As early as January, 1946, Mr. M i, ‘Truman declared he was tired of |his dealings with them. _ a “babying the Soviets’—saying so| He blasts John L. Lewis as “a in a scorching memo that rapped | @emagogue in action” who “cannot the knuckles of James F. Byrnes, |face the music when the tune is then secretary of state, for keeping |0t to his liking.” him in the dark on foreign policy| He makes public the 1948 letter developments. which precipitated his break with ' (Byrnes, now governor of South ; Financier Bernard Baruch—a let- Carolina, issued a statement call-|ter implying Baruch was ungrate- ing this incident “absolutely un-| ful for favors he and his family true.”) received. He weleomed the nomination of} Mr. Truman records that he has Thomas E. Dewey for President | had to fire some of his top aides by the Republicans in 1948 because | because they got ‘too big for their he felt Dewey had nothing to offer | breeches,” and he gives this ac- the voters except a “warmed-over’ | count of a 1945 talk with former platform. President Hoover: And he viewed one of his own} ‘We discussed our prima donnas Cabinet members—Henry A. Wal-|and wondered what makes them. lace whom he fired—as a “dream-|Some of my boys who came in er’ more dangerous to the country | with me are having trouble with than the old their dignity and prerogatives. It’s Bund. hell when a man gets in close as- (Wallace said at his home in | sociation with the President. Some- South Salem, N. Y., that if the | thing happens to him.” President ever admits this is a} Something happens to the Pres- réferénce to him “I shall charge | ident, too, once the White House him with the same deliberate char- | gates close behind him. deter: assassination which he finds le in others.” (The name of the person men- tioned by Truman is blacked out in the text and ‘Mr. X” is substitut- | separations from his wife and ed. The context clearly indicates, | thelr daughter—“‘our baby,” he however, that Wallace is the man | calls her, noting that Margaret referred to. Asked specifically by | doesn’t like the term. a reporter if “Mr. X” w lace, the President replied ‘No | public appearances the President comment.”*) is ‘stared at as if he were “a two- This 253-page book, a best-seller | headed calf” or “Jumbo, the Car- even on the basis of pre-publica- | diff ‘Giant.”” tion orders, adds up to a°cam-| Mr. Truman says a President paign document that the Demo-| can’t afford to be emotional—yet crats can use whether Mr. Tra- | he i ‘‘chokes man seeks re-election or not. “>. For all its wealth of personal information about Mr. Truman,’be- fore ‘and after he went into poli- tics at the behest cf the Pender- gast organization in Kansas City, it is significant for what it leaves out as well as for what it con- tains. Among the noteworthy omis- ‘these occasior & meeting with the late Sec- retary of Defense Forrestal and sions: leaders, he reported ‘‘a ter. There are only fleeting and non-| ible feeling” that the naticn was committal references to Gen. | “Very close to war.” Dwight D. Eisenhower. After World War I, Mr. Truman | Showdown with the Russians. over praised Eisenhower ‘to the skies | the blockade of Berlin, pr grape to help him get any- ing he wanted—including the presidency in 1948. Mr. Truman made Now, in 1952, Eisenhower is in , P0tation: the running for the Republican . presidential nomination although | 1! is near. I hope not—but we the gloomy not personally an active candidate. | ™ust meet whatever comes—and | And Mr. Truman, in the new | We Will.” beok, does not mention Eisenhower on his list of the “greatest gen- of a North Atlantic alliance, Mr. erals” while saying Gen. Omar N. | TT¥™an voiced confidence that the Bradley, chairman of the Joint | Wrld was “well on the road” to | Chiefs of Staff, “tops them all.” | Peace _ Similarly, Mr. Truman has noth- ing significant to say about Eisen- jas the main accomplishment of hower's chief rival for this-year's | iS administration: GOP nomination, :Senc Robert A. Taft of Ohio. the. fact that he was sponsored in keel. The Russians had the idea polities by the Pendergast organ- | that after 1946 we would explode | and then the Russians could have | But he says the Kansas City ma-|h@d the world to themselves. We | chine never influenced him as a|h@V€ managed to keep that from ! ization. public official. “There is nothing I detest soj. much as a croked politician or a Sizzling memo which Mr. corrupt. government official,” he man Says he read in person says. And he adds, speaking of the corruption charges made against his own administration: “But the type of businessman who is a fixer is even lower in my estimation.” The Truman-Hillman book will be read avidly for, among other things, the President's frequently uninhibited comments on other happening.” | Truman’s famous letter to the U. Wal- And, wryly, he records that on | This was at the time of the | jain, after the Chinese Com- | munists entered the Korean War, | + It locks like World War || > Yet in 1949, with the beginning | And he gave this, late in 1952, | “We have prevented a third | World War. “And we have kept the | Mr. Truman makes no bones of | American economy on an even | Published here, for the first time, | says he didn’t—after the Moscow conference in late 1945. Russians. went on te say: “I do not think we should play tired (of) babying the Soviets.” Mr. Truman—left the Cabinet. The book “Mr. President” gives President's ouster of Louis John- son as secretary of defense, Mr. S. Marines and his later apology, or the much-misunderstood : news conference in which the President said the use of the atomic bomb in Korea always had been under ‘ consideration. (He explained later that no special thought was being given to the use of the A-bomb | at that time.) The Hillman-Truman book also kisses off very briefly the roaring controversy surrounding the dis- missal of Gen. Douglas MacAr \thur from all his Far East com- GARDNER'S — PHARMACY — The Rexall Store V4 TRUMAN AVENUE Corner Varela Street PHONE 177 | collected for November and “| Ass S ors Office MIAMI — | 473.59 for December. | Se | . Charles (chuck) | Vf R P RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (@—jin Las Vegas or leaving on a| Calhoun, 15-year-old junior high }* ust emal en Jungle yellow fever, carried by a | honeymoon. J | school student who admitted hej Recency. General Rinna |W, mosquito which lives only in the} When the couple obtained a mar- | shot and killed Harold F. Whidden, | __ emccosy.. General we: eco forests, has’ killed 400 Brazilians | riage license Mi pare s % has advised overnor - Hutten gave her | will face prosecution in Dade Coun- | EFYi> she ; since last. Maybut now is being | name as Betty hornburg Briskin.|ty Cireuit Court. Fullex Warreu that the @ffice of , NEWS BRIEFS peer] A Dr. Arlindo de Assis, head of the National Health Depatrment, |said Monday night the spread of the disease has been stopped and brought under control. Her original family name was| Juvenile Judge Walter H. Beck- | Betty June Thornburg. ham made the ruling Monday after | The actress, who is 31, obtained !a board of psychiatrists and psy- | ja final decree of divorce in Los | chologists recommended . the boy | Angeles last Jan. 24 from Ted | be committed to the State Hespital tax assessor of the s remain closed to the public from the first of April to the meeting of the county tax equilization board, which usually meets about July. poet EO mean | married today in a surprise elcpe- i to his then secretary of state, |ever, in a letter to an unnamed! Byrnes — and which Byrnes now | friend: 7 2 pai, Spree e sipisrealelgscoetee and Fresh Water Fish Department RAILROAD si Utne cpcomstanes ans M marred te cps st 15 sping baal raining aon Ae gon nel ana 2 aenaa || TICKET. OFFICE I could do nothing else and still | Frontier. Hotel but he gave no|failing to file basic reports on | 0m is expected, he added. AGENTS other details. He said he didn’t! food and drink ccs This message complained sharp-|be President, of the United States. ly that. Byrnes hadn’t kept the | Even the Chiefs of Staff came to President informed on what hap-j the conclusion that civilian con- pened in the conference with the |trcl of the ‘Military was at stake It also assailed the “high-hand-| . Hillman, jih.a' foreword to the | tive.” ed and arbitrary” manner in, book, says it began with a series which the Kremlin was acting, and |of private interviews which ‘the | selected avoids President granted him. | he i Bays, ‘Mr. ‘Truman |Hillman says the sole purpose of | its restaurant and Lar business or compromise any longer . . . I’m | turned over%o him “‘all his diaries, | the. beok is to carry out Mr. Tru- his private, paper's and corpespond- eee a “I want the people — This memorandum was written a | ence,” with’ permission to Publish to Kiiow he Presidency as I have; JACKSONVILLE — Florida’s year before Byrnes—now governor | @0ything in ther that ddd not vio- | experienced it and I want them to| bookmaking, punch boards and of South Carolina and a leader of | late security, the public interesf,| know me as I am.” Southern Democratic opposition to | °F good taste. . ¥ “The President thought it best,” | Hillman: Hillman adds, ‘“‘to limit the pub- A lishing of any material from his | who will construe this (the book) | payments of the 10 per cent federal | no details of such landmarks of|diaries up to the end of 1949—|as a political act. You and U know | the Truman administration as the |in order to meet any charge that | better.” 1119 WHITE st. - ' the epidemic is expected to be put | Briskin, Chicago and Hollywood | for the Insane for further exami- down within twe months. |camera manufacturer. They had /Pation and Possible treatment. | afraat enntec Ginnie ieoainals —— | split several times but reconciled, ! Judge Beckham said he had no | lari by i pared | CHICAGO ® — The time clock | then went through with the divorce. | authority to order the commit. | ® armed by unauthorized forecasts, |system by which guards at the|They have two children, Lindsay, | ment. bs eater Bureau hese: said. Argonne National Laboratory show |5, and Candice, 3. | Whidden, 67-year - old recluse, |. | ie ay, a district forecaster punetuality—or lack of it—in mak-| "Q’Curran is 3 | was shot in his cluttered house in |f0F the bureau here, said the Air ing their rounds, was changed re- | Northeast Miami. When Calhoun | Force has been putting out non- | | cently. But the change was kept) LAKELAND (M—A 15-man com-|Was artested he had been driving Public tornado warnings to its | secret until Monday. | mittee established by Florida Cit-|the wealthy recluse’s automobile, | OPS fr ecvera: years and some The guards were told about it | rus Mutual will meet soon to work | ASSEE . the press aes, coating satis | by an announcement that eight of |c1 a co-operative program for im- | TALLAH, EE — Gov. War- excitement. For this reason, he |them had been fired. |provement of the entire citrus in- |e” signed a death warrant Mon- aid, the bureau has started j Lester Furney, assistant tc the | dustry. | day. setting the week of March 24 tae "bulletins of Tien cc |ditector, said the cause for dis-| Lacy G. Thomas, Groveland, | for execution of oe W; rand “We have been Mery. cautious missal was failure to make the | president of Mutual, appointed the | etal shooting Aes . ey a i about issuing these forecasts,” assigned rounds and for turning |}committee Monday. The date for | nd Mrs. Lucille ss Jaen Story’s Day said, adding that tornados jin fraudulent reports. jae first meeting has not been | former. wife, in a Jacksonville ice |@te hard to “pinpoint” in advance : cream parlor where Mrs. St: John |and can only be predicted in a “general area.” eet 4 INDIANAPOLIS () — Twelve- | —— worked. year-old. Thaddeus Starks lost-a! FORT MYERS (@— Coroner 5 jquarter “in his tedroom Monday, | Archie M. Odom has ruled. the % and his seareh for it cost his father |shooting of Russell S. (Mac) Max- | ,.WEST PALM BEACH i several’ hundred dollars. {well suicide. | prove ‘feperted a mysioeal ik The boyslighted a candle to aid | Nel a Svea Old: RLOMON Ea ip killing thousands” jin his search: His bed caught fire. pu mechanic, was found dead "| tream, jacks and snook in cba Firemen. confined the blaze to Sheriff Flanders: ‘Thompson said | Worth. % () Wirephoto | the room, but the-father, Floyd A:|. ° Pace : a Upthegrove said the infection - |Starks, said the damage amounted Gibeaten ee ean tara first appeared a month ago and” |to several hundred dollars, ert shea seis nai ‘b ioe {seems to be spreading. Out of two The quarter is still missing. re Tek Whee ee .|tubs of sand bream caught near ae Fort Myers. She moved Mon jthe Palm Beach Spillway, nine out | LAS VEGAS, Nev. (»—Acti <well’s survivors include his |°f 19 fish were infected, he re- [Betty Hutton and Movie Dance | widow, Mrs. Hazel Maxwell, Dune. |P@ted_ Monday. | Director Charles O’Curran were | gin sti _Upthegrove said the infection | : first appears as a black spot on iss phere: ‘ the side and eats completel: TAMPA \® — The Hotel which 4 Distict Judge Frank McNamee | houses the Boston Red Sox during through the body. The State Game Kc | Your Grocer SELLS that Good FEE AMERICAN and CUBAN SEABOARD | ment. 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