European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 9, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Stars and text of Truman message to Congress v will not  economic changing map Tallenger soviets o face facts of atom Era k a Jed text president tru pcs sap to Congress on the of the two general Eisen t will be inaugurated As Presl of the United states and i place private citizen of this presidency last changed eight years ago this coming that was a magic time a of grieving for president great and Gallant being who had been taken us a time of unrelieved and o his thrust so Sud into complexities and of the presidential of so this time we see transition under our Viem Cratie system since the i have done my Best to pure that the Transfer from one to another shall be and tunes called hard our times Are not easy they Lime hard j our i not Only has to carry i tasks in such a a c y May grow and and people has to Lead the whole world in overcoming the com if first All this under of the atomic bomb f fit Las been my privilege to hold this presidential office nearly years and much has done in which i take great but this is not personal see it to Pride in in it is Pride in our Politi system and our form of gov it me remind of some of we have done since i assumed my duties As presi the United situations recalled the oath of office on april in May of that same in that great White Flash of it tamale at heralded and final Victory in world opened the doorway e atomic i consider some of the great ques sobs that were posed for us by total world i consider How Well we 1 by nation have american Economy after the War that was would there be an her depression Here answered that l it with a resounding Economy has grown Treen free Enterprise has flour As never sixty two people Are gainfully with 51 Mii Ren years private Busi and banners have in 200 billion dollars in new equipment since the end War problems met j us turn ques at toe wars end government continue to a people answered by doubling old Durance benefits and extend nveraga4o6tenjnhjion More it by in our minimum we t answered by the three million constructed to the vital of the greatest of our could there be in 4 durable Structure of lasting peace of All the would we As after Par toward another tet disaster which this berths Husto coast of i kit the overriding ques we cannot know the answer perhaps we will not know it finally for a Long time to but Day and these past eight we have been building for searching out the Way that leads most surely to Security and Freedom and Justice in the world for us and All Man above All has been the task of our Republic since the end of world War ii and our accomplishments so far give real Pride to All at the very a total War has been each up to this the we May already have succeeded in establishing conditions which can keep that kind of War from for As far ahead As Man can the second world War radically changed the Power relationship of the nations once great were left shattered and channels of routes of political and economic ties of Many were tipped and in this chaotic the United states and soviet Union emerged As the two strongest Powers of the each had tremendous human and natural actual or on a scale unmatched by any other nothing could make plainer Why the world sin  and How to an of thu diametrically opposite principles i of these two great Powers in a War Rovinea t Cal difference described the difference stares at us Frem the map of Europe to the i West of the line that tragically divides Europe we see nations continuing to act and ignite the Light of their own traditions and Prin on the other we see the dead uniformity of a tyrannical system imposed by the rules o2 the soviet nothing could Point More clearly what global struggle Between the free world and the communists is All about it is a struggle As old As re corded history it is Freedom versus for the dominant idea of the soviet regime is the terrible con caption that m in do not have rights but live at the mercy of the s inevitably this idea of and All the consequences flowing from with the efforts of free nations to build a just and peaceful the cold War the tween the communists and the free world is nothing More or less than a soviet attempt to Check mate and defeat our peaceful Pur poses in furtherance of their own dream world divided by soviets world is not through our fault or but by soviet not be the cold and because he free world saw this Beci Iise men know we made the Effort and the soviet r 11 be r s spurned free nations have accepted leadership from our re Public in meeting and mastering the soviet the soviet Union occupies a territory of Square beyond its East and Are the nearly Square Miles of incorporated into the soviet of now its this vast land mass contains an Enon Novi store of natural sufficient to an economic development comparable to our Given their International area of Timeir agents in foreign Are the communists trying to do 1 inside their the communists Are trying to maintain and train huge military and simultaneously they Ara and mayor ing to Weld their whole vast area and population Toto a advanced Industrial they aim some Day to equal or i president Truman economic changing More than May be apparent at the present i is the meaning of what has been going on in Europe under the threat of a the free nations with our have been drawing together in defense of their free in so they have Laid the foundations of a Unity that will be endorsed As a major creative Force at the end of this phase of i believe that this movement is of the greatest i believe that its Bene fits will survive Long after the communist tyrant is nothing More than an unhappy in Asia and the economic and social problems Are but no less economically and things cannot and will not stay in their prewar Mold in Africa the change must is com just in the years that i have been president 12 free nations with More than people have become better the production Levels of Western Europe and North America shifting bal ances of world economic Power and War potential to the communist rulers Are trying expand of world whenever and when r r a pm y gives them a Cen trial they Are both a leu rope Anand an asian Borders touching Many of the vital of the free around j so can use their armies and their economic to set up simultaneously a whole series of induce such widely dispersed places As Western Iran and these pressures and attractions can be sustained at or quickly shifted from place to two requirements thus the communist rulers Are moving Vith an implacable to create a greater strength in their vast Empire and to create weakness and division in the free pre paring for the time their false Creed tells them must come the time when the whole world outside their Sway will be so torn by strife and contradictions that it will be Ripe for the communist it has and must the tree worlds purpose not Only to organize defense against aggression and not Only to build a Structure of resistance and Salva Tion for the Community of nations outside the Iron but in addition to give expression and Opportunity to the forces of growth and Progress in the free world and so to organize and unify the co operative Community of free men that will not crumble but grow stronger Over the and the soviet not the free will eventually have to change its ways or our whole program of action to carry out this purpose has been directed to meet two re free China strengthened in the far East the tactics of communist imperialism have reached Heights of violence unmatched our Aid has enabled free China to rebuild and to strengthen her forces on the Island of in addition we have shown and deter to uphold the name of the world in Korea where communist forces have invaded their neighbors and where we have shown we have the endur Ance to match their in the grand design of the Marshall plan has permitted the people of Italy and half other coun with help from the to free themselves from threatened starvation and Benefit from rising rising incomes and Ris ing standards of now the countries of Europe Are mov ing rapidly towards political and Independent the Philippines Libya Pakistan and and the three states of now members of a these names alone Are the Monument and Testi Mony to the sweep of the great Force which is changing the face of the urgency increases the communists Are using this great democratic upheaval own and task has become More and More terribly in this situation we can see meaning and importance of the print in which we can share our store of knowhow and of capital serve these develop their economies and reshape their War today Between the soviet Empire Aad the free nations might dig the not Only of our stalinist but of our own society and world As Well As theirs and technology have worked so fast that wars new meaning May not yet be grasped by All the people who would be its perhaps by the the but i have Bee responsible for decisions which have brought our science and engineering to their present know something of what it will come to mean in the atomic science is in the full tide of development the unfolding of the innermost secrets of Mattot is uninterrupted and atomic weapons since Alamogordo new Mexico testing Plant we have developed atomic weapons with Many times the explosive Force of the Early and we have produced them in substantial and re in the thermonuclear tests at eniwetok we have entered an other stage in the world shaking development of atomic from now Man moves into a new Era of destructive Power Ca Pable of creating explosions of a new order of magnitude dwarfing the mushroom Clouds of Hiroshima and we have no reason to think that the stage we have now reached in the release of atomic Energy will be the the Speed of our scientific and technical Progress Over the last seven years shows no signs of Abat we Are being hurried Forward in our Mastery of the atom from one discovery to another towards As yet unforeseeable of destructive the War of the future would be one in which Man could extinguish millions of lives at one de Molish the great cities of the wipe out the cultural achieve ments of the destroy the very Structure of a civilization that has been s6wly and painfully built up through hundreds of Genera such a War is not a possible policy for rational we know but we dare not assume that others would not yield to the growth of Economy since War ii pointed out temptation science is now placing in their with that in there is some thing i would to Stalin you claim belief in lenins prophecy that one stage in the development of communist society would be War Between your world and but Lenin was a pre atomic who viewed society and history with pre atomic something pro found has happened since he War has changed its shape and its it cannot now be a stage in the development of any thing save ruin for your regime and your communist thinking i do not know How much time May elapse before the communist rulers bring themselves to recognize the but when they they will find us eager to reach understanding that will protect the world from the danger it faces the communist rulers have a sense of time about these things wholly unlike our they seem to think and plan in terms of and there no Short run Way to make them see that their plans cannot of the future the i is this As we continue to confound soviet expect As our world grows Strong More More attractive to men on both sides of the Iron cur then inevitably there will come a time of change within the communist we do not know How that change will come whether by deliberate decision in the by coup by by defection of or perhaps by some unforeseen combination of factors such As says reds fear free world but if the communist rulers understand they cannot win by and if we frustrate their attempts to win by it is not too much to expect their world to change its moderate its become More realistic and less and recede them cold War they began do not be deceived by the Strong the look of monolithic Power that the communist dictators Wear before the outside remember their Power has no basis in free worlds ideas anyways of life they do not dare to let their people know about the masters of the Kremlin live in fear their Power and position would collapse were their own people to acquire in comprehension about our free their world has Many elements of but this one fatal flaw the weakness represented by their Iron curtain and their police a social order at once so insecure and so fearful must ultimately lose its Competition with our free ikes inaugural provided just one this i urge you to consider carefully provided that the free world retains the Confidence and the determination to out match the Best our adversary can accomplish and to demonstrate for Uncertain Mil Lions on both sides of the Iron curtain the superiority of the free Way of now we turn to the inaugural of our new president and in the great work he is called upon to do he will have need for the support of a United a confident with firm Faith in another and in our common i pledge him my support As a citizen of our re and i Aak you to give him to to to All my fellow i May god bless our country and our