EXPECTS LASTING PEACE

Chronicle (Levin), 30 September 1946, Page 5

EXPECTS LASTING PEACE

PRESIDENT TRUMAN COUNTERS WAR TALK Keeeived Sundav, 8.0 p.m. XLW YOh'lv, Sept. 28. "I believe we are going to have perinanent peaec," said ITesident Truinan is a brief statement to the eadet corps at YYest Point. The statement was obviously designed to eounteract war talk now being hcard throughout the eountry. JTesident Truinan said the adnnnisti aiion was working for iiei-niunent peace and believed United States would attain tliat objeetive. The President indicated tliat lie believed the nation was entering a period not of inilitarisni but of revulsion against tliings rnilitary. "There is going to eonie a time when people will be sorrv they ev*ei' saw a soldier, sailor or niarine. Pon't let tliat worry you. "We are going to need leadership now and froni now on just as badly as we needed it in the great emergency through whicli we have passed. Tliat does not mean your leadership has to be eonfined entirely to rnilitary educat ion. Some of our greatest civilian leaders are nien who have been trained to niilitarv leadership." The President \s first publie remarks sinee Cenei'alissinio Stalin's letter to the London Sunday Tinies, are evideiitlv designed to lielp ease the tension liere and abroad and there is reason to believe the speech is the forerunner of other atternpfs by the administration to eounteract easual talk of another war.