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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Friday, July 20, 1945

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 20, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Yank the army weekly july 1945 president Truman addresses the closing session of the United motions conference in san foreign policy was uppermost in american from the look of the nation was on the Point of tossing the isolationist policies of the 1920s and 1930s into the nearest Ashcan and agreeing to continue in peace time that cooperation with other democratic countries Tomich had come Abbottt under the pressures of global the final decision on foreign policy was up to the Senate the 96 members of that body had the nations full and Earnest after san the members of the sen ate Rose to their feet and gave the big Man with the owlish face what the papers called a rousing the crowded galleries joined in the the Man who got the cheers was Arthur Vandenberg and the reason for the applause was his speech in be half of the new charter of the United Vandenberg gave his speech directly after returning from san where for two Bush months he had served As a member of the american delegation to the United nations conference on world the Vandenberg told the had been a it had drawn up a charter which he thought the and All the United nations could sincerely if the spirit of its authors can become the spirit of its he said of the i believe it will bless the i believe it serves the intelligent self interest of the United states which by bitter experience in the Valley of the Shadow of two wars in a that we cannot live entirely to it was generally was not speaking for himself the late president Roosevelt had picked him for san Francisco at least partly because Vandenberg has Long been acknowledged to be the Republican party chief spokesman on foreign in gop counsels his word carries and his endorsement of the observers meant that Many re publicans would follow him in voting for its Rati to make the a member of the new Organ approval of two thirds of the Senate is to help obtain its president Truman made a personal Appeal to the Tom Connally chairman of the foreign relations enthusiastically predicted that there  be 10 opposition he foresaw favourable Senate action by August More than ratification is required to make the charter the Constitution of the new world Security organization must be approved by All the big China and France in addition to the by 23 of the other United there want much it was believed on this Side of the that the necessary global majority could be Cabinet when the new world Organiza Tion is set the american member of these purity Council the most powerful part of the proposed setup will be a Secretary of state Edward Stettinius stepped Down As head of the state department As soon As the san Francisco conference his resignation had been generally and his successor no Surprise the former South Carolina senator and us Treme court Justice has risen steadily in National influence and importance during the past he left the court to become assistant president Franklin Roosevelt War Mobili Zatio was his special but As one of the late presidents closest advisers he made the trip to Yalta for what proved to be the last Roosevelt Churchil Stalin he resigned Public office just before tragic events brought Harry Truman into the White but few doubted that he would be recalled to the Byrnes appointment brought to five the number of Truman men in the Washington commentators say that further changes Are on the they also predict that there will be changes within the state department now that Byrnes is at the presidential except for a melancholy trip to Hyde Park for president Roosevelt president Truman stuck close to the White House during the first two months of his to address the departing Dele Gates to the he went aboard president Roosevelt specially fitted c54 for a speedy transcontinental there was Little wartime secrecy about the the presidents whereabouts were known to the Public at nearly All and his Public appearances in san Francisco and Kansas City and were everywhere he Drew Friendly about whom he said they were cheering for the not the about the whole trip there was an air of in and Truman cheerfully posed for photographers while getting a haircut and visiting Nis former Haberdashery Edward in Kansas much was made of the fact that Jacobson  Supply his old partner with the three White shirts White shirts Are a wartime rarity that the president when haberdashers in other Midwest cities Learned about the presi dents Lack of they made a Hasty search of their shelves if they had White shirts of the right size on sent them posthaste to the chief the right size was 15 i 33inch president Truman didst say whether he wanted to Wear the new shirts to his Berlin meeting with prime minister Churchill and marshal but everybody agreed that this which would take him to parts of the world he got to know the hard Way in the first world would be a Milestone in his in Washington the state department said it would turn to veterans of this War to build the bigger staff it will need in also in the the office of defense transportation announced that Pullman reservations could be made Only five Days in Advance of instead of 30 Days As the order was expected to discourage civilian train at Mitchel Long Walter Radovich was dismissed from the army years hard labor on conviction of charges that he had taken in bribes to keen two enlisted men from overseas announced plans for construction of an elevated Airport in the heart of town and a single station for train and plane atrocity films shown to German pcs in this country brought varied some were others seemed the biggest negro univer sity in the with accommodations for is being planned in Prairie in the induction of Nevin Hauden proved expensive for the he has 13 children and his dependency benefits amount to hand grenades hurled at a War Bond invasion demonstration on Lake Pontchartrain Beach near new Orleans injured 250 most of the injured suffered phosphorous an easy chair broke the three Story fall of a shipyard he landed upright in the chair and was uninjured except for a wrenched in officials were reminded that they must give each member of the Mohawk tribe of the reservation four bolts of Calico or give the City Back to the an old Indian running As Long As the Sun set the annual worlds the ton Queen Eliza biggest troop ship in the arrives in new York Harbor with passengers she brought Home men of the eighth air Force and 1159 Navy men As Well As 446 army names in Fred director of War mobilization and declared that the must have plans for an Early defeat of Japan As Well As a late he said that reconversion must be seeded As much As possible to increase the Supply of jobs for veterans and exware work president Truman commuted to life imprisonment the death sentences of Erich impel and William convicted of spying after they were landed by a German boat on the Maine coast in Hollywood police refused the request of Clark Gable that he be allowed to shoot varmints on his estate with a the cops said they were against promiscuous use of Merle Oberon and Lucien a Hollywood were but neither attended the it was a mexican proxy arranged by the lawyer who helped miss Oberon get a mexican divorce from sir Alexander movie pro later the film Star and Ballad plan a More conventional Homer Capehart returned from Europe to say that the ban on i fraternization in Germany was unenforceable and should be Erno Maestro of the radio City music Hall orchestra in new York died of a heart Jacob who has served in both the Mediterranean and the was named head of army ground succeeding Joseph the is Ernie a troop Shio named for the late was launched at Page 17  
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