Truman's Warning To And Naming Of Russia Well Received In U.S.

Wanganui Chronicle, 4 September 1950, Page 5

Truman's Warning To And Naming Of Russia Well Received In U.S.

NEW YORK, Sept 2 (Recd 6 pm).— ( Earlv reaction in Congressional circles | in Washington to Mr. Truman s broad- | cast was favourable and assurances of | the funds necessary to carry out the policy came from memoers of both Pa Mr e Kenneth McKeUar (Democrat, Tennessee), chairman of the Ap propriations Committee said Congress would be ready to grant ‘every nickle” Mi Truman asked for military purposes, “because we have to win this war.” , „ . The New York “Herald Tribune, in an editorial today, said "The President met squarely the issues which today are troubling the councils of the nations. Mr. Truman, with quiet eloquence and without bombast, showed I forth the strength of America as a| warning to aggressors and a hope to I those people who adhered to the ways, of peace and freedom. There was nothing to hint at appeasement.” “The Soviet Union was put on, notice, pointedly and by name, that its

violated pledges and disruptive acts formed the prime reason for America s | rearmament of the free nations in . their own defence.” I The “Herald Tribune’ added: Mr Truman has made a fine statement. It is to be regretted, perhaps, that it was not made with similar comprehensiveness earlier, but it is on record now in plain terms. "President Truman laid down a foreign policy to which all lovers ot freedom and peacd’ can rally,” said the New York “Times” in an editorial. “Mr Truman said, in plain diplomatic words, that the threat of war, the threat to freedom came from one centre—Moscow, world capital of ! Communism. I “In this.country we shall soon enter into a possibly bitter election campaign. In that campaign let us hope that no major point made by Mr. Truman last night will be questioned. In I essentials, in our hopes for peace, our I determination to be left free, let us have unity.”