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No. 35410
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1953,
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COME TRUMAN'S FAREWELL
His Last Message
IKE his last State of the
message, Mri
L'Union
Truman's final broadcast as. President of the United States Illuminaten the fundamental qualities of a man who, for All his controversial domestic policies, stands with the late President Roosevelt as a great, champion and guardian of the free world and its ideals. What's" fate ful chance it was that brought the Man from MIBAOur to the leadership of the world's most power- ful Stute at the very time that it had to change course. Even to follow the mighty Roosevelt was hard thing as Truman knew! whon he said: "Pray for mol" But he did it success- fully even though his administration may not have been without blemish. Aж Mr Truman has said moro than once, the greatest part of the President's job la to make decisions, and during his eight years in office he has never shirked from this responsibility. By almost a spilt-second decision ho plunged into the Korean war, and
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BROADCAST
Faith In Destiny
Of Free Men
PREDICTS COLLAPSE
OF
COMMUNISM
Washington, Jan. 15.
In a farewell speech to the nation at the end of almost eight years in the chief executive's office, President Truman said the menace of Com- munism would collapse eventually because of its own fatal flaws and that when peace came there would be such prosperity that people would not recognise the world in which they now lived.
The President spoke before radio microphones and television cameras from a desk in his office at the White House.
He said he supposed history would record the "cold war" as the overshadowing feature of his eight years as President, but it could also record that he helped to set the course to win it and prevent World War III, and had brought great new benefits to the people of the United States. thereby gave
notice that Communist aggression everywhore would be challenged and halted. He introduced the Trumau Doctrine and sanctioned the Marshall Plan. He gave the first order to drop the atomic bomb. All those actions needed
He again rojected the idea that the world be freed from the Communist menace by atomic attack on Russia. “Starting war is no way to make peace,” he stated.
Appeal Of
courage and Mr. Truman 9 Mau Mau
proved that he has it.
THE free world owes much
Dismissed
to this man with the in- fectious grin and the lion heart. It was typical that! his final State of the Union
Nairobi, Jan. 16, message should give warb. The Court of Appeal, ing of the "corrosive process Eastern African Court sit- of fear, sapping our faith, ting here, dismissed the turning citizen ngainst citizen." Equally typical was appeals of nine Kikuyus con- the declaration in his last victed of Mau Mau murders, broadcast to the people: “I
COM-
|
He recalled that when he took office "the war against Japan was still going on."
"I made the decision that the atamle bomb had to be used to end it. I made that decision in the conviction that it would enve hundreds of thousands of lives - Japanese as well as American."
He continued: "Think of tho
ago..
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Many reports have been re- ceived in recent months of strange items seen in the sky In different parts of the world. The latest comes from Buis- wayo, Southern Rhodesia, Mr Blarney Wayne, Manager of iL Bulawayo photographic studio, was driving north along the City's Main Street, whân he nliver object in the sky. He stopped the car and snapped the phenomenon, using a" camera speed of 1/100th Etc. He went to his office and was about to enter the building when he saw the object again. fie made another exposure. The "Phenomenon" look like, a silver object of Indeănite shape. The nega- 'tives have been examined by presaren and other Indivi- duals and have been found to be genuine-London Express.
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Jewish Leaders Flee East Germany
Gauleiter Arrested
|Seventh Ex-Nazi
Be Detained
To
Bonn, Jan. 16. The British today, follow- ed, up the arrest of six. former-prominent Nazis by picking up "for examina-
tion"; Hitler's former Gaù- leiter for Hamburg, Kaufman.
Karl
The German Government also struck at the threatened Nazi revival by moving to deprive Otto Remer, former General and then deputy leader, of the bannes Neo Nazi Socialist Reichs tionality, of his
his constitu
The Interior Robert Lehors
Ист
the request had been lodged with the Constitutional Court
Sir Ivons Kirkpatrick is High Commissioner, Britain's chiez, representative In Germany, an nounced the British reporters today
Jush swoop to
Reuter BOMBSHELL EFFECT
London, Jan, 15. Underthing of the Nazi plat shocked political and diplomatic circles hero who regardi· it us a bombshell on Allied plans to give West Germany virtual sovereignty and to rear her.
The arrests shook even the strongest adherents of the policy of the "new deal" for Germany. all Opponents of the programme drew Immediate support for the
Berlin, Jan. 15.. Four Jewish leaders from East Germany, Communists, fled today to West Berlin to escape persecution.
view that West Germany was
still not prepared for full
cratic liner.
They said their flight would be a signal to the hood on Western Demo remaining Jews in East Germany to join the re- fugee stream to the West.
..
of
At the sune time, there is almost universal sympathy for Chancellor Dr. Konrad Adenanier who bave striven hard to wipe and his Moderate colleagues
A spokesman said: "This is, we chudder hearing the news the saddest day for the Jews in from Praque and Moscow. We on extremim of every icindia Germany since Hier. Jewn in have become a very small, the Foderal Republic, East Germany are lying in a rather hopeless minority state of panic"
Jews in Europe, and for us of German- und French political On the Continent; spokesmen there is only one thing to to a parties today The four men brought their night to safer areas, Asso- familles with them. The group elated Press. totalled 22.
It was the largest organised group escape of Jews since Enst Germany launched an at- tack against "Jewish agents" on January 4.
Washington
Explosion
at the possible resurgence of expressed alters
Nazism, but song wid that the arrest of the six, last night should not be exaggerated,
GERMAN REGRET Most German spokesmen re- grotted that the action had bee taken by British and not Ger- man authoritie
He said a third world war would not only dig the grave tof the Communist enemies but
also of free world society,
Describing how the cold wer might end, he said in part: *The Communist world has great rescrens and it tooks strong. But there is a fatal flaw in their society. Theirs is a godless system-a system of slavery. There is no freedom
consent. The Iron difference between our course In it, no
now and our course 30 years Curtala secret police are
think back for a stantly purged.
moment to 1930 and you wil! "All these are symptoms of a the difference. The Jap- rulers fear of their own people.and we great basic
Into weakness the anese moved
Manchuria did not act.
The "As the free world grows Fascists moved in Ethiopia
more
more united,
and we did not. The Nazis Reports from Cairo pub- stronger, attractive to men on both sides marched inta Austria, intolished in a section of the
Iron Curtain-and as Czechoslovakia, and free ! London "pressTM today prement: Telmuth-Lohser,~ Chair" | kliied and some 30 Injured when of the -They--were - convicted for the have a deep and abiding murder of headman Kiambu on
Soviet hopes for easy expansion were paralysed for lock of
man of the Jewish community a strong explosion occurred in parties right of the Social De faith in the destiny of free | September 25, the murder of an
are blocked - then there will strength and unity and wiit” dicted that the latest British In Liepzig: Leo Loewenkom, a buliding here today, have to come the time of mon. With patience and agricultural Inspector on October courage we shall some day 20 and that of a police constable change in the Soviet world. move into
ern-alon October 22,
CHANGE WILL OCCUR wonder Golden Age—an age
"Nobody can be sure when All the applicants returned to that is going to be, or exactly when we can use the pence-
will how
come about, ful tools Science hus forged prison to await execution.
or to do away with
whether by revolution poverty and human misery troops of the King's Rites and police reservista earth." 150 everywhere
regular Courage and faith are two threw a cordon round on African of Mr Truman's outstanding focation at Nakuru before down characteristics, and because torlay.
for us
a new
on
on
Four hundred steel-helmeted
ruler
II
SPEED AND COURAGE He said that since World War
free men had moved against the "Communist threat" with "speed and courage and de- eļšiveness",
note to the Egyptian gov ernment on the future status of Sudan was likely to be rejected.
The Egyptian
Members of my Foreign on
After mentioning other doci-
Wan yes-
the agreement
The four Jewish leadors -pro: Jullus Meyer, President of all Jewish communities m Eart Germany and Deputy in the East German People's Parlia
Chairman of the Jewish community and Gunter Singer (Thuringia) Jewish community. Chairman of the
Erfurt
They were all members of the East German Socialist Unity (Communist) party.
anti-fowish events have my
Washington, Jan. 15.
one person Was
At - Icast
The Explosion followed o fire buliding. which broke out earlier in the
sold in
The party board of the ope position Social Democratic party prèss statenient: "The arrests expose alarmingly the really significant danger for our Republiothe inditrations of neo-Fascist elements into the
mocrats
sure is
regrettable that a mès- of an occupation power was necessary to uncover the conspiracy."
But the party's press service.
Germany---Reuter.
Cabinet
Among the persons known to be injured were 25 Aremen, 15 sald it would be incorrect to "The first crisis came in 1945 | reported to have studied
of the note
of them seriously. !
dramatise the British arrests. trouble in the satellite states er and 1946, when the Soviet terday the text
Inside the Kremlic
They were fighting the fire The majority of the German by
Union refused to honour its given by the British Ambassa
The only Jewish communities from their Indders when the Whether
the Communist
agreement to remove its troops Mahmoud Fawzi, the Egyptian Chairman are those at Magde them onto the street below.
dor, Sir Ralph Stevenson, to
people were immune against a in East Germany left with a blast of the explouden blew revival of
Nazi
Ittoos
The shift
their policles of from Iran. their own free will or whether Cabinet camo to me and asked
Monday,
post-war elections had proved Major
burg and Halle. a change comes about in some if we were ready to take the
Other people in the street this, architect of the
were thrown to the ground with of them he is entitled to Nearly 3,000 Africans were other way, I have not a doubt risk that a firm stand involved.
The leaders fled on a
In Paris, the French Foreign pre glass from all between Egypt and demand that the free world helt
the shattered Omico declined to comment on for screening but those in the world that a change will I replied that we were.. and
the four arranged signal to escape state windows in the building ratu- the arrests and said that, as far Sudanese political should cast off fear. It never whose documents were in order
parties at accurity officials. They have been ing on them. the Soviet troops were with- accur.
drawn."
Khartoum on
us, was known here, no similar Jan. 10 on the housed by the West Berlin Jewish pays to underestimate an were not detained.
"I have a deep and abiding
future of the South Sudan, was
The cause of the explodon Naz! underground organisation community-Reuter,
Is not opponent, but to fear him
Several hundreds of those faith in the destiny of free men.
ret knownFranco-existed in the French zone of newspaper as paralyses the mainsprings
Pressc. With patience and courage we, sive moves, Mr Truman sald:quated by ane detained to
SEEKING SAFETY screened were of action. It was because answer various charges.
shall some day move on into "Most important of all, we saying in Chiro yesterday: "The Hitler and Mussolini wero
a new era-a wonderful Golden acted in Korea... It was not British note will be rejected."
The main point of difference
Amsterdam, Jan. 15. Age-an age when we can use easy to make the decision that throughout the Anglo-Egyptian feared before 1989 that the The raid followed the discovery
Recent Prague and. Moscow the peaceful tools Science has sent American boys again into war bogan. It was because of the decapitated body of a
lain's
insistence that the rocketed the number of appil= they were no longer feared school teacher a few miles from forget for us to do away with battle... (but) we realised the talks on the Sudan is over Bri-
human misery issue was whether thero would
should be cations for emigration by the in 1940 that the war was the location and violence against poverty and
elderly African who SVES
be fighting now or on a much Governor-General everywhere on earth.
vested with exceptional powers. Jewish
the community in later on... "Think what can be dono larger scalo
fearned "So the decision was reached including special responsibility, Netherlands, it was
here today. once our capital, our skills, our of all, atomle
a decision I believe was the for the Bouth Sudan. Befence-most
Britain emphasises that the
Over the past fortnight the energy can be released from most Important to my time as
Governor-General should retain { number of Jewish persons who There the task of defence and turned President.
Thas been a tremendous power to veto Sudanese legisla➡ wholly to peaceful 'purposes all
have registered for emigration codon that he felt was against the has increased from 3,000, to around the world There is no awakening of American
sclence on the great Issues of intereris of the backward 4,000 and is silll growing, Dr rights-equal economic people of the Southern pro- Gerhart, Taussig, head of the end to what can be done.
opportunities, equal rights
vinces.
Emigration Office of the Bureau can't help but dream out civil The Tigris and Euphrates citizenship and equal-educational
opportunities for all our people, The expected meeting be of Jewish Social Work, ald
the Egyptian Prime today. „iti Valley can tie maxle to bloom #whatever their race or religion or tween it did in the times of Babylonin status of birth.
Minister. General Nagulb, and and Nineveh. Israel can bo "So, as I empty the drayers of the British Ambassador has not made a country of milk and this desk, and Mr Truman, and so far taken place, and reports honey as it was in the time of leave the White House we indicated that the Egyptian gov Joshua, There is a plateau in have no regres. We feel we ernment's reaction to the latest Ethiopia some six to eight have done our best in public British note would be conveyed thousand feet high that has service.
to Sir Ralph today.-Reuter. 65,000 square miles of land just "I hope and believe we have exactly like the corn belt in contributed to the welfare of this Northern Illinois. Enough food can be raised there to feed 100,- nation and to the peace of the
world United Press, 000,000 people. -
won by the domocracies.nearly strangled. Russin is a colossus, not to
The Governor of Kenya, Sir be ignored or laughed off.
Evelyn Baring, has appointed a But she too, may have feet on at inquiry in of clay, and the free world vestigate the murder in hospital concedes her half the battle of Kikuyu Chief Hinga. now being waged it Chief Hings was shot dead at trembles at her name. That Kiambu near Nairobi on January is Mr Truman's message. It by an unknown tribean who
walked unmolested into
T
a little here.
loud a the
Je a notable last thought to Government hospital where the round off an historic tenure chief was recovering from wounds of office.
received in an senbush-Reuter.
Off Shore
Oil Rights Given To US Navy
Washington, Jan, 15. - President Truman said today that he was issuing an executive order turning over to the United States Navy oil under the lands off the shores of the United States....
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CAN BE DONE
are places in South Robbed Of His
in
Kilt
French Premier For London
the
He said there had been little desiro Among the roughly estimated 20,000 members of the Jewish community in Netherlands to emigrate in the past few years, not even to Israel. The requests are mainly for emigration to the US and Canada, Taussig said.
"The reason „Jows are anxious fó-gớt away is that they find, Berlin very close to the Nether- lands, and they are not so sure the Ruano will not come here Dr J. Millman, editor: In chief of the Jewish weekly. Now Israellch Weekblad mid. commenting on the rise in applications for emigration
"They have not forgotten their World War II-experiètices. After Koren the fear was for
"There Americo-places in Colombla
Venezuela and Brazi
Paris, Jan, 15, Just like
that platoo
Prime Minister. Rene Mayer Ethiopia glaces where, food
said tonight that he would go to. Mr. Truman intimated the could be raised for millions of
Britain, solsce, Prime Minister Président Truman disclosed his
Edinburgh, Jan. 18. These things can be decision at his not presa con amount of off whome ownership people.
The story of a Scotsman who Winston Churchill before his they are self-lost his kill was told. In an United States visit: to General ference before leaving the Pre-has bech in disputo ne about done and
100,000 enllion barreli, N
Eisenhower It we can Edinburgh court, today, "?? liquidating projects. sidency next week.
The Prestient holde that the get peace and safety in the The victim-20-year-old
to the people of the world under the United Nations, rinle nurse, was robbed of the that be will be accompanied by fear that in the event tho in the controversy whether the ens pased by Con- we will not recognise the world as he walked home lafs, at the Finance Minister, M. Mauris Riesiaus will come bere they
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