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I TALKED WITH TRUMAN
WASHINGTON.
E life of a journalist is not unlike that of a scene shifter in a theatre, who sees the great and the celebrated close at hund, acquires u bowing acquaintance with them, admires them for their performance, but stops this side of idolatry because he finds that they are merely human beings. No man can be great at all times, or he would be insufferable. Perhaps that is why the journalist in the wings is seldom a hero worshipper. He sees the warts.
Therefore when the State Department sent word to me at New York that the President would receive me, I was pleased without being unduly excited. It is true that the President of the United States in any period must rank high among the six most important men in the world, but it is even more true that today the man who holds that office stands first above all others.
BEVERLEY. BAXTER, MP
finds 'the most untroubled-looking man
in the U.S.A.'-in the White House
in Washington.... How soothing
In
it is to the senses after the
und vortex of New York..
Looking at the beautiful houses,. the wide boulevards and the noble dome of the Capitol, one is allowed to forget for a moment
about dollar.
the American ·
"At the Univerally?" I asked. "No," he said, "at night school," Just then he polited to a huge brass globe of the world of the opposite side ht the room.
That was used by General Elsenhower in the North African campaign," he
"The President will see you now," mald "Charlie". Ross, the most human and friendly Prona chief in the world. In fact, Mr Roas came in with me and did the introductions, and then at
raid. " keep the trouble"spots in down perhaps as a safeguard. the world facing, me I shall leave
My diet and lasting impression here for the next President." was that the President Was
the
"But won't van be the next udal untroubled-looking man 1 had President?" neen since my arrival in America. For the first time the gentle He has a gool colour and it would not have been surprising if he had humanity of his face hardened.
that tuol, and in the few words that just returned from a holiday he spoke, there was an almost ironic Florida. In all my experience of picture of the unbearable load that politicians in high office I can re- un American President has to carry. member no one who gave such on He did not dramatise it, nor even Impression of inner tranquillity,
Also he has an affected smalle which plays over his face at the least suggestion of fun in the con- versation. Finally, he possesses thuit rare gift of being genuinely interest- cd in the verson to whom he is talking
I asked him how he kept so ft. "Well, as Charlie knows," he said, try to get in a swin every day, and a two-mile walk.' When he walks so Mr Ross told me after- and army pace of 120 to the minute, wards, the Prestient does not the
(1) Worry? No!
«ŋut that does not explain your Dlooking so unworried," I said
to Mr Truman.
But what do any of us know about Mr Truman? He was a soldier in the 1914-18 war and then plied the trade of haber- dasher in a country which has the worst taste in ties in the print the third because I entire civilised world. Never-
very funny and very true. theless, Mr Truman cannol be blamed for the present Ameri- short it is a term of endearment used among Americans, but we can style in neckwear which is shall leave it at that. In return to the Totem Poles of the Red Tudiens. Truly, the I hope Lord Inverchapel will tics in this country are fearful write his memoirs when he lays and wonderful; the more no be- down the Ambassadorial torch. cause the waistcoat has been his comments on Russin were almost totally abandoned, and pointed, shrewd and enlighten- FDR Scored one is presented with the full ing. He has the humour of the glory of the Totem Tie dis- Scot at its merciless best,
TELLING the gravedigger to played against the male Ameri-
conversation My ancient driver can torso..
wait, I was duly passed into Bellein, and he listened interly to asleep, but I woke him up and, the President's ante-chamber, my description of the improving We also know that Mr Truman with calculated nonchalance, first exchanging greetings on rate of the country. plays the, plano, and that his told him to drive to the White the way with many journalists daughter sings. Beyond that House. "Going to see the Pre- whom have known over the we remember that he was sident?" he asked. I admitted years, Mr Truman is not as compromise Vice-president, and that it was even so,
good copy to them as Mr Roose that he became President only
velt, but they stand on guard death through the
and hope. Roosevelt.
of Mr
WRS
watched
He smiled, and then his face be- came serious. "When i take n decl- slow." he saht, "it Is token, amil I don't spend time worrying about it. I can't afford' to." Then he smiled again. There are always so many new decisions awaiting their turn
The
changed to
I do not propise to publish every- thing the President said, because he When does not give interviews," Ambassador Lew Douglas was good enough to arrange an nudlence for me. promised that I would not in more than give an impression in anything that I wrote.
For
in
luge in the slightest suggestion of But the meaning Wis self-pity. there,
The gravedigger, in the taxicab was awake this time, and I told him to drive to the airdrome as I had to catch the airplane for New York.
"'s a fine day for the race, he zald.
But I wasn't going to fall for that one,
Is Me Truman a kreat man? Not ed standards. But Truman is a good if we judge greatness by the accept-
man. I am certain that when he of Lincoln his passes the statue sprit is humble.
Harry Truman is the Common Man, biet he is not a little man.
"Get me
Stalin
on the phone!"
BIT BY
BIT lime strips the official camouflage from the great noments of the war ... and bit by bit emerge more intimate stories of what went Stories like this one, . . .
"Well," he said, "Mr Truman is a humble man." At this
But there can be n0 breach of point we passed the cemetery Being 20 minutes early for
confidence in stating that Mr Tru- man spoke of Grezd Bellain with à 'How Many Dead?" again. "There's one place," be my appointment,
which moved said, "that no one ever tries to single visitors and one deputn warmth
me deeply. After that he fell tion. headed by a senator in "She has given the world so much, REACHED Washington on break into." the evening of the day that into a silence for nearly a quar- grey frock coat, disappear into he said. "in every State but one our without the President's room and then law is based on British law." Then
with quickering wortis he Mr Truman had made his "State_ter of a mile, when,
spoke of the development of British low and of the Union" speech to Con- any connecting thought, he re- emerge.
marked: "I'm a humble man, The President was obviously justice from Edward the First down- gress.
through the centuries. but that don't say I should be dealing swiftly with his appoint- wards The next morning I picked up President of the United States." ments and I felt that my inter- Suddenly he silled almost apologe-A with Stalin which did not a cab in order to call first on How elegant and restrained view would be a case of Hailically. I was so fascinated by the last long has been described at
our Ambassador. The driver is Was AR elderly man with EL curious Shakespearean sense of humour. Pointing at a ceme- tery, he asked: "How many are there dead there?" I toll him that I did not know. "They all are," he said. It was worthy of the Second Gravedigger in "Hamlet," if not the First.
this beautiful
city of Caesar and Farewell.
subject that I studied it for two years," he sakl.
THE RED BELT' STATES
ON A ONE-WAY STREET
WARSAW.
NE of the "Red Belt"
By LARRY ALLEN
Out
for
including one with
อก
WAR TIME
Cape Town.
conference
Beaverbrook bact led
determine
a dinner party here by Sir. George Usher, former Director- General of Tank Supplies, now. visiting South Africa.
Lord mission to Moscow to Russia's needs in planes, tanks and
The mission. other sinews of war. consisted of some 60 people--experts in fanks, nireraft, and artillery, with, their staffs.
Immediately
after settling hist entourage in their hotel in Moscow, Lord Beaverbrouk looked round hiri rritably He was ready to begin the conference.
'Coming over"
Beaverbrook turned to his secre- "Gel me Stalin on the phone,”
"Ge me
lary. he ordered.
Telling him to wait, I went into the Embassy and had n brisk 20 minutes with Lord States of Europe is mov- Like other nations in the Soviet sion. The Poles are looking Inverchapel. "There are three ing along 2 one way street, sphere. Poland in trying to show the more alliances, grades of popularity in this
assistance under the Marshall Plan, country." said the Ambassador. Slowly but surely standardising world that she can get along without France.
those of and seems to be doing a pretty good bulked on Poland's insistence that France appears to have "First, you're a good guy. Then its activities with
and Soviet job of it.
a new mutual assistance part pro-
The secretary hesitated. you're a regular guy. Finally, other Slav nations
immediately." snapped I wish I could Russia.
Poland atinined or you're
exceeded last vides aid if attacked by Germany or
Beaverbrook. year's fixed--proviuction- targets In- sny-states-which may-in-allied with
The secretary got an interpreter practically
najor industry her. Apparently the French are to ring the Kremlin-and there was after UNRRA save the nation a By- ready to sign against Germany but
Stalin on the line. ing start by pouring in US$480 mil- desire liberty of netion if another Tell him," rakl Benverbrook, tion of food supplies, transport and country allied with Germany is thet i am coming over to see hitn industrial equipment.
BY THE WAY
by Beachcomber
every
aptressor.
Stalin
now."
also
ONCE more someone of an hu route. At the annual Moshin the street, directed programme industrial
Festival arrows are fired at the in the states of Eastern Europe to advancing a pattern of standardisa-
evening
distant bells at from a voice
"L
Today, Poland is becoming an In- With Yugoslavakin the Poles
"Marslund Stalin," said the inter- creasingly vital part of what seems have signed cultural, economic anal preter, "he say come right over."
collaboration pacts, thus
Within ten minutes a ear was on its way
to the Kremlin carrying Lord Benverbrook. Stalin was there inquiring nature wants to
moon by teams of warriors mullen- form a standardised bloc against the tion as far west as Belgrade. know whether men-about-towned by the potent banana brandy, West.
In all sectors, Poland Works close to shake hands.
with Czechoslovakia,
"I want to know your mininuun ever really did drink cham- which they
ly, not only drink out of crocodile-
Poland has slined commercial Yugoslavia and Soviet Russia. but requirements from us in the way of pagne mit of the shoes of ac. hide cups.
treaties with virtually every Eastern wth Hungary, Bulgarls and or material," said Lord Denver- tresses.
brook, country, same in the West and all of Rumania. In passing
Scandinavia. These
have been
Stafin jotted down a few figures All I can say is that most of them
working lever that
In Poland, has produced
no In other Slavs many thousand tanks, so many always preferred a glass. But if
barrels, aircraft, with "Red Belt" nations, the Communists hold the thousand cultural alliances
gun you look at the shoe of a chorus girl PLAINTIVE as
preties
States agreements on the co-opern- upper hand. While Poles work to vehicles, and so on.
pen, of the Edwardian perlod-there is Hollywood, A certain latly went
took out his Beaverbrook standardisation of indus- make every link fit in the economic tion and one in a good state of preservation into hospital for the birth of hertrial enterprises and packs of mutunt chain beinf bullt up in castern struck a few noughts from the ends In the Notting Hill Gate Museum- baby, and "was marked 907 on the
Europe, the Communists are making the various figures. a false midriff for vurposes
reduction you will notice that as a
Stalin
the of identide assistance.
pondered ings it governmentally. will button, which maken the shoe very on And now the number
One move was the agreement for
inally agreed. He sent for vodka. deep. It is thought that the Calety not come off. Far worse was the
The Communist Workers' Parly the
'Send a band' girls by this means, took back to fate of Lady, who, while at the the closest economie and industrial
ro-operation with Czechoslovakia. controls the most vital posts in their lodgings whatever their
- theatre in a low-backed gown, was Today Poles and Czechs see eye to Pulish government, including such Back at his hotel Lord Beaver- mirers left in the
Leading tacked by the gentleman behind wore tall
Darling" on what and how Industrial pro- ministries as public security, eduen-hook found the members actresses, of enurse, alw
ber. "Major-Cress Is A
mission sitting loomily in the big. Russian boots when they were ask-in highly indelible pencil. Her hus fucts should be made, and exchange tian and foreign affairs.
and technical Informa-
lle turned to his The Communists have led the empty lounge. ed out to supper. "Waiter, another band naturally objected to the whole
"Get me Stalin on the magnum.
vanguard of opposition to the Mar- secretary. My dear, your footwear thing.
Tell him this hotel will be the ruin of my old pater,"
Thus it is only a matter of time shall Plan which, they say, aims to phone again..
morgue. See if he can. until Poles can work eliciently in rebuild Germany Arst instead of the is like Ahahaland
thus send us over a band of some kind." Czech industries and Czechs In countries she invnded and
"Marshal Stalin he say O.K.” breed a new war JESTIONED rather crossly AN article about Seville refers, Polish plants.
The
Poland's Communists, and about Ahahalund in a curt let- A notice, lo Triona, the suburb in
So the place was booming with The synchronisation goes farther
controlled
Some days later and Czechs BTC
press and radio, have cheerful music,
one of the mission approached Lord ter, I must confess that it is not at which the gipsies live, on the other than that. Poles
standardised cultures. taken up the "Moscow Line"--con all well known. It es between the side of the Guadalquivir, as though developing
atlucks against the Beaverbrook. "Well, we are having Jorum and the Chambwe rivers, and there were nothing there but danc-They are reading the same kind of stant, violent
afolly time," he said, "but when 01ms. Also United States, Britain neul France. is inhabited by the Alahas, a war ing Gitanas. Less romantic are the books and exchanging
as does the conference begin?" earthenware
Today on American is about rior race discovered by Colonel Gul- mumerous
factories. their youth and political organisa-
"My dear air, the conference in aver long ago." replied Beaverbrook, able, and the chief product is jibl-
- Alfonse
Soun XII, bridge, and the road-lincs.
The Polish press and radio, like "oniv we cannot, to home yet. They Jibl, n' sari
Poland and Czechoslovakia started buckwhen1: of
The to Huelva, was once a Carthusian
other Eastern European would think we had done no work." So AT 2.30, 5.20, capital is Ababa, a sprawling centre monstery, don't ask the trai aff with a series of pacts of friend- that in
That, according to Str · George of the mosh-drying industry. The woman you meet to sing you "Valdes ship and mutual assistances, nirmed states, relay whatever Moscow says. mesh is brought in from the coun- Leal" She is probably a typist in at protecting themselves against a That's standardisation, too-of pro- Usher was the thortest-ever con- tryside in kull-wagons, drawn' by one of the factories.
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