NEW LEADER

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 91, 18 April 1945, Page 6

NEW LEADER

FIRST PRESS CONFERENCE

Rec. noon. WASHINGTON, April 17. President Truman, at his first Press conference, which was attended by a record crowd of newspapermen, began by reading a letter from Mrs. Roosevelt asking him to express the Roosevelt family's appreciation of the affectionate thoughts received since her husband's death.

President Truman said he would be happy to meet Mr. Churchill, Marshal ;;Stalin, President Chiang Kai-shek, and h General de Gaulle as soon as possible. V Mr. Truman does not expect to at-L-te'nd the San Francisco meetings, but (•■will welcome the conference delegates jjby radio. He expects to see Mr. Molo-f-lov before the conference opens. I * Replying to questions. Mr. Truman !;Said that he wholeheartedly supports i-the proposed international monetary under the Bretton Woods •plan and also approves the reciprocal •trade agreements programme. Mrs. Roosevelt has resumed her col■umn "My Day," which was interrupted by her husband's death. She said: •"When you have lived for a long time -in close contact with the loss and grief •■which pervade the world, any personal sorrow seems lost in the general sadness of humanity. "There is only one way in which ■we can repay the dead who have given their utmost for the cause of liberty and justice. They died in the hope -that through their sacrifice an enduring peace would be. built and a more just world emerge for humanity. Any 'man in public life is bound, in the '.course of the years, to create certain enmities, but when he is gone his main .objectives stand out clearly and one -may hope that a spirit of unity will ;evoke a determination to achieve those i objectives." The "New York Journal of Com--merce" says that reflecting Wall Street ', confidence in the new President, stocks •registered a broad advance yesterday : with the largest volume of sales since 'last June. Investors in all sections throughout the country purchased securities at higher prices ranging to three points and upward in the widest move lor three years.

City traffic arrangements on Anzac Day are advertised today.