DEEP SINCERITY

New Zealand Herald, Volume 82, Issue 25180, 18 April 1945, Page 8

DEEP SINCERITY

. SIMPLE STATEMENT HEARTENING RECEPTION (Eecd. 8.10 p.m.) . NEW YOHK, April 16 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 N an editorial. The immediate response from Congress was heartening, and a similarly warm response would be forthcoming from the country. The New York Herald-Tribune, in a leader, says the American people and the world heard from President Truman what they wanted and expected to hear —a simple, dignified re-dedication of the nation to the great goals of victory, peace and rational reconstruction which have hitherto guided its immense effort. His words were unpretentious and modest, but they 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 New York Times correspondent in Washington. Some New Dealers think that the kind of peace treaty which Mr Roosevelt wanted might now pass the Senate with less difficulty.

The reaction of the London papers to President Truman's address is that it is a great message. The Daily Express comments: "Roosevelt's idea of victory is Truman's. So is Roosevelt's idea of peace and the share that America must have in maintaining it." If Axis leaders anywhere were so foolish as to suppose that Mr Roosevelt's untimely death will give them ground for hope, they now have their answer, the News Chronicle said. ROOSEVELT ESTATE VALUE NOT DISCLOSED PROVISION FOR FAMILY (Heed. 6.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, April 16 President Roosevelt's will, dated December 11, 1941, gives Mrs Roosevelt the right to seleci any or all of his personal property and utilise it during her lifetime. The value of the estate has not been disclosed.

The will sets forth that the five children shall each have the right to select one-fifth of the residual personal . property after Mrs Roosevelt has made ' her selection. Any property not chosen by the widow or the children shall be offered to the Government for display in the Roosevelt library or the Roosevelt home at Hyde Park, which was donated to the Government in 1944. Mr Roosevelt directed that the remainder of the estate is to be held by three trustees, with the income going to Mrs Roosevelt during her lifetime. Upon Mrs Roosevelt's death, one-half of the principal remaining in the trust fund, together with all accumulations of income, shall be divided equally among the then living Roosevelt children. Upon the death of any of the Roosevelt children, their children shall receive the share to which the parent would have been entitled. The remaining half of the principal is to be divided upon Mrs Roosevelt's death into separate trusts to be held by the trustees for the benefit of Mr Roosevelt's children and grandchildren. Mr Roosevelt bequeathed 5000 dollars to St. James' Church, Hyde Park, all personal property in Georgia to the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, and 100 dollars to every Roosevelt Mr "Roosevelt directed that the family should leave the greater part of the personal property at Hyde Park for the Government, so that the general character of the house should he unaltered GERMAN PRISONERS ADMIRERS OF ROOSEVELT (Eccd. 5.35 p.m.) OTTAWA, April 16 German prisoners of war in the Hull, Quebec, internment camp, sent a message of condolence to military headquarters upon President Roosevelt's death. They said Mr Roosevelt was a great philanthropist and Inimanitarian, who held broad views for humanity and would have made a great contribution to the world's future. PRESIDENT TRUMAN BRITISH LEADERS SEEN WASHINGTON, April 16 President Truman received the British Foreign Secretary, Mr Eden, and the British Ambassador to Washington, Earl Halifax, this morning. Mr Eden later told the press: "1 naturally took a message from Mr Churchill telling President Truman how gratified we all are at the intimate relationships existing between our countries in all our affairs. I was pleased to have the privilege of calling on the President and grateful that he had time to see me on such an important occasion as that of his message to Congress." DIPHTHERIA MENACE SPREAD BY GERMAN ARMIES (Reed. 6.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, April 16 The German armies carried diphtheria to all parte of invaded Europe, where the disease has now broken all bounds, says a statement by the Health Division of Unrra. Most of Germany's neighbours had reduced diphtheria before the war, but disease carriers with the German armies spread an epidemic wherever they went. Norway, Belgium, Holland, Northern France and Czechoslovakia especially suffered, but Great Britain and Hungary escaped. Oceans do not constitute an effective barrier. Unrra urged systematic immunisation to prevent any, further spread. CAPTURE OF TAUNGUP ARAKAN CAMPAIGN ENDS BOMBAY, April .10 The capture of Taungup virtually brings to an end the Arakan campaign, which started in 1942. The Australian Associated Press correspondent says: "Taungup guards the escape way across the Arakan hills to Prome and to the Irrawaddv River, and the Japanese fought hard to retain it. Although straggling parties of Japanese are left in Arakan they have nonlost their last position of atly importance." DOCTOR TO PAY £3500 INCOME UNDER-STATED SYDNEY, April 17 Penalties totalling £3500 were imposed today on Dr Lionel Leslie MeStay, Macquarie Street, for an under-statement of income over a twoyear period. He was also ordered to pay the Taxation Commissioner's costs of the prosecution. Mr Justice Williams said Hr xMcStav was a member of a profession from whicli the Court expected a high standard of conduct, not only in medical practice, but also in the performance of those public duties which nil citizens owed to the eommunitv.