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GOP Sweep Frees Truman Of Burdensome Program By BAUKHAGE AmalyU and Comma motor WNU Service, Kit Eye Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON. ? There is a feel of Chriatmaa in the Washington air which is prompted bp more than the evanescence of the joyous spirit of "MM ? jusi try to get onto a Connecticut ave nue car headed tor the F street shopping district. The White House presents its usual decor of pine and ribboned wreath. And. at this writ ing, the chief ten ant is. I believe, dreaming of a Missouri Christ mas among his friends. \ir L . t L . . w _ Baukbafe it ii c m r r n c spends the holiday beneath his own rooftree or the one which Uncle Sam so generously provides, it can be said that it will be a far merrier occasion than a year ago. He will be among his friends as well as his family, and as one of his official circle put it, with his "professed" enemies (the opposite party) in pow er his "unprofessed" enemies (offi cially his friends) having no further opportunity to toss brickbats or bandy threats about his head. I recall another crisp, cool winter day last February a year ago, when we wended our way to the Presi dent's weekly press and radio con ference Bemused pansies (1 re corded in this space) showed frost bitten faces in the garden of the White House grounds. We were discussing the difficulties and differences which President Truman already was encountering s?"V at the hands of his own party in \ L congress. \ 1 "Congress has to be realistic in \ an election year," I quoted some \ one as saying, "They are facing real issues. And the President's pro gram isn't realistic." "Whether or not it is realistic," another member of the group re plied. "it isn't his program. He in herited it. It's New Deal and New Deal is Old Hat now. It doesn't rep resent Harry Truman's ideas at all, but he has to go through with it." As we look back, it is plain enough that whether it was New Deal or what it was, the program of the President was one that the people rejected on election day, the moral obligations of the past, the ef fect of the pressure groups, the ukase of the party of bigwigs were swept away and Harry Truman, wno aian t want tne job tnat wat I thrust upon him when death com manded, was made a free man. The President's satisfaction springs not from any spirit of "I told you so" hurled at his alleged supporters, not from any lack of loyalty to a cause well lost. It was simply the weary but happy flood of relief of a man who. having attempt ed what he knew was an impossible task, saw that task ended, and friend and foe forced fairly into the open. War Terminated Honeymoon With Congress My mind goes back to another scene shortly before the death of President Roosevelt. I sat in the of fice of the vice president talking of days when the caissons went rolling along and both of us ? many miles ppart ? rode beside them. We talked also of the then forthcoming San Francisco conference of the United Nations and Mr. Truman's theme was what he felt to be his function. Paradoxically enough?as it turned out later?It was helping estabhah liaison between congress and the White House, complement ing the highly successful effort of Secretary of State Hull which re sulted in the forging of a bi-parti san foreign policy. And in so short a time, after Mr. Truman became President, that liaison between Capitol Hill and WO Pennsylvania avenue mapped in twain, never to be reunited. is.lr Three moa?ha> after the President took ofHoe k recorded: "The politi cal armistice in Waahington will end shortly after the Preeident'e (Truman's) return, from Berlin? by that time- domestic discontent will be crystallixMg. the honeymoon will he oo the *w. . . And I then had the temerity to predict that if ... . "the Japanese war should end ? . . within the yeas ... President Truman wfB be stripped of the protecting armor of the Comma nrtf r. in-Ovied Then the slings and arrows which even Roosevelt's enemies were wont to deflect to congress and other gov ernment agencies will be aimed squarely at the man in the White House." That prophesy required no gift of the occult. Mr. Truman knew it then?or I wouldn't have. From now on the President is his own man. The legislation he of fers, whatever its fate may be, will be moulded to suit his own heart's desire. He has fought the flght to the best of his ability, assailed from the right and the left and the rear as well as the front. Now he will write his own ticket, be it good or bad. Few Presidents have had such an opportunity or faced a more severe test. ? ? ? Preeidential Bee Hum* in Capitol Dome Washington withdraws from offi cial activity for the holidays with out getting any real impact of the advent of the new regime. There has been the preliminary hurly burly of reorganization on Capitol Hill but the same old faces are evident and the same old voices speak. The active Republican lead ers in both houses of congress have been so much in the limelight for the last year anyhow that they merely appear to be stepping up, rather than stepping in. It all seems quite routine and casual. There was just a touch of the excitement of the beginning of a new era when house and senate steering committees had their first meetings and made their first offl Senator Taft Politically Cautious clal statements concerning legisla tion and policy. Most of tha steps had been foreshadowed and the change of venue was not fanfared. The last 14 years make up the longest period of lean years that any party has suffered. I witnessed the end of two 12-year drouths through which the Democrats thirst ed ; close of the one that began with William McKinley and ended with William Howard Taft, when Wilson accompanied the "new free dom" to the Whits House. And the next, another lt-year period, when the New Deal followed Hoover's exit. Tha Democrats had only a short interlude at the pie-counter between Taft and Harding and their return in 1933 came in tha midst of such a domestic crisis, with the mad days of the NRA following an the heels of the bank holiday, that our attention was diverted from poli ics. But what the Democrats did to the Repubttcan'offlceholders "wasn't good," as one "Republican put it recently. He added: "We are going to do the same for them." Congress begins with the Repub lican Presidential plum within eaa- 1 ier reach than any which have dan gled in many a year and it is no ! wonder many hands ara reaching 1 hopefully for it. In fact. Senator Vandenberg early sounded the warning that more thoughts should be concentrated on the responsibil ities following the victory of '48, and leas on the possibilities of '48, for tha good of all concerned. Tha battle between tha Taftitea and tha antt-TaMtee began even before election and the Ohio sena tor himself is so determined that this time he will win the nomina tion that he leans- over backward to avoid criticism. He refused to ?a an a broadcast far even a three minute statement of Republican policy, and ha look off lor Central America shortly thereafter ' r 1 -- ? . r ; ? ? ?:? '?i BARBS .. . . *y Bmmkkage ? ? ? ? :?_?: : 'rtrt T"*? la ontar ? n?W aotea, Mm Ptf >u n lf?d btft.aftfe <* alotMika pa par. NHr U ? >H tor *a % ^ +tn0+* k * ? - > THREE NEW U. N. MEMBERS . . . Seated la front of the dais at the U. N. general assembly are the representatives of three nations ad mitted to membership in the United Nations. They are shown as they listen to Paul Henri Spaak, center on dais, as he welcomed them to the fold. Left on dais Is Trygre Lie, secretary general. At right is assistant secretary Iran Kerne. Seated in front are Oesten linden, Sweden; Thor Thors, Iceland, and Aboul Hosayn Axis, Af ghanistan, new delegates. WINNERS OF NOBEL PEACE PRIZE ... Dr. John R. Mott, New York, left, secretary-general of the World Student Christian federa tion, and Miss Emily Greene Baleh, Wellesley, Mass., president of the International Women's League for Peace and Freedom, who were awarded Jointly the 194S Nobel Peace prixe by the Norwegian par liamentary eomraittee of the Nobel awards commission. Four other Americans won awards in physics .and ehemlstry. WELL-DRESSED SOLDIERS . . . Clothing for in la bosvy winter condition is betas tested st "Task Force Frost," Camp McCoy, Wis. From left to ritbt ore Pfc. Georse E. Deal. Bif Stone Gap, Vs., in ski awoatain boots, gaiters and cotton parka with liner; Pie. this Galas, LaFsMetta, Tean., la Arctic shoos, orerwhite trousers, parka aad winter mask; PtL Eageae Tranthan. Springfield. Mo., la maklnks. pile baodpaifca oacrcaat; G.I. iastir forces parka B-7; and Pfe. Robert Wsnteraaate, Newton, N. I., in sleeping salt. rWTN NtTLSES CX*E FOB TUPLEX*.. . , JNI?I WM,Jpiill> OFT TO COLLEGE . . . Roy Fox, 11, complete with bap and Rhode ?ian college hat, Is chown in Lon don ready to depart for Rhodesia to attend Fairbridge college at In dues. He la one of 7M recruited from British families. 'JIMMY' WALKER DIES . . James J. Walker, Nev York City's most colorful mayor, wko died as the result of i blood clot on the brain. Hie ready-witted politician and former song writer was ill only three days before be passed away. SIGNS COAL ORDER . .. Federal Jadge T. Alan Golds borough, Washington, D. C., who signed temporary order restraining John L. Lewis, head of the UMW from terminating the Krng-Lewis agree ment and calling a strike of all soft coal mine workers. FIRST G.I. BABY IN JAPAN . . . To Mrs. Molina Rita Doras, wife of Chief Gunner's Mate Robert J. Dufas, Milwaukee, Wis., roes the distinction of (Mag birth to the ?rat child bora to nary personnel la Japan. CUBES BT MUSCLE FOWTK .. n> CMC <rkjcb mnI iUMni tflsfitt. % MORE DUPLICATION WASHINGTON. - President Tru man Is a sincere, hard-plugging ad vocate of unified armed services, but he should persuade his army to obey the policy of its commander-in-chief. At present the army Is building a special wing to Walter Reed hos pital at 12th and Dahlia streets in Washington which will exactly dupli cate the navy's. This wing is to take care of the President of the United States. Simultaneously, the navy also has a floor of its Betheoda Naval hospi tal reserved for the President. It is all set to take care of him at any time. However, medical officeri have changed in the White House and a navy doctor isn't in command any more. The army now runs the show. Roosevelt, always partial to the navy, appointed Adm. Ross Mcln tire White House physician. But Tru man, whe served in the army, se lected Brig. Gen. Wallace Graham as White House physician. And of course an army doctor doas not like to practice hi a naval hos pital. Therefore the army medical corps, wanting to avoid the humility of sending the President to a naval hospital, authorized a new wing to the Walter Reed Army hospital. inus, ai me expense oi mousamis of feet of scarce lumber, tons at strategic metal and several thousand bricks, the special wing for the President is being built. ? ? ? U.S. VS. DJU. DEMOCRACY Secretary at Stata Jimmy Byrnes has been telling the Jet leering story about the triw eaee between democracy la Rus sia and the United States. "An American soldier," be re lates, "was talking to a Russian soldier In Berlin. The American said that in his country, he eoold go to Washington without a per mit, go to the White Honse, wait his turn, get In to see the Presi dent and tell him that he doesn't like American foreign policy. 'That's democracy,' said the GX " 'That's nothing,' the Russian soldier replied. 'In my country I can go to Moscow, knock on the door of the Kremlin, walk in, wait my turn, see Stalin, bang on the desk and say. "Mr. Stalin, I don't like Truman's for eign policy either!" And noth ing would happen to me. That's real democracy.' " ? ? ? SUPPRESSED REPORT While President Truman and oth er high government officials con tinue their enthusiastic support at the new Philippine government of President Roxas, there remain locked in the files of the White House and Attorney Gen. Tom Clark two copies of a report which, if made public, has explosive power nearly as great as that of the sup pressed Rogge report. The Philippine report was written by a special investigator sent to Manila last winter to determine what action should be taken against islanders who had collaborated with Jap occupation authorities. Inside fact is it pins guilt on nearly all the leaders of the present Philippine ad ministration. Documentary evidence of collaborationist records of a large part at the present senate, cabinet and President Roxas himself is in cluded. The charges include such crim inal acta as aiding the Japs to wipe M?4 WAIVIAI miAmHllna AA wui |wuiv? ?uciiiuob, \.uiioinriu( HI seize food from famished Filipinos for use by the Jap armies, in addi tion to the declaration of war against the United States in 1M4. Although the vast majority of the Filipinos hated and resisted the Japs, corruption spread through the top layers of political and industrial leaders. Result was that the Justice department investigators recom mended that the most important col laborationist clique be tried not in the Philippines, where it would be difficult to find a native court com pletely free of bias, but in San Fran cisco. Reason this reeommepdation was never acted upon, officials say, was largely Gen. Douglas MacArthur. ? ? ? UNDER THE DOME Speaker Sam Rayburn doesn't want the Jab of minority leader. . .. Southern congressmen are not en thusiastic over continuing the lead ership of Massachusetts' John Mc Cermack and they have the votes to put him >b or out . -. One fixture hi the capitol regardless of political turnover - will be the Rev, Jamas Share Montgomery, the houae chap lain. Appointed bythe Republicans in UU. ha was csottnusd by the Democrats ? ?- * mUl GO BOUND An cabinet members are Strengtb Sadng their legal stafls, knowing they face the most exhaustive series oi i congressional mTSMKiuODB m Qt last S yean. . . . 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