ROSE TO OCCASION

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 91, 18 April 1945, Page 5

ROSE TO OCCASION

NEW PRESIDENT PRAISED

NEW YORK, April 17. President Truman has risen to the occasion of a great moment in history with a straightforward statement carrying deep sincerity, says the "New York Times" in an editorial. The President's address was essentially an appeal to Congress and the country for generous bi-partisan support. The Congressmen's immediate response is heartening.

"We believe." adds the editorial, "that a warm, confident response will also be forthcoming from the country." The "New York Herald-Tribune," in an editorial, says that the American people and the world heard from Mr. Truman what they wanted and expected to hear —a simple, dignified rededication of the nation to the great goals of victory, peace, and rational reconstruction which have hitherto guided its immense effort. The words were unpretentious and modest, but showed the author's grasp of the great responsibility which has fallen upon him.

Congress received the message with a unanimity which many members called unparalleled since President Roosevelt's first term, states the Washington correspondent of the "New York Times."

Some "New Dealers'' consider that the kind of peace treaty Mr. Roosevelt wanted might now pass the Senate with less difficulty.