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THE HERITAGE AND THE INHERITOR
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courageous. President Truman nowi faces many grave issues that call for Roosevelt's kind of daring and deteri mination. * For the world knows that Roosevelt's work was far from over. He knew it better than anyone. That is why he asked the American people to return him to office for a fourth time, and why he expressed hope that his health would permit him to finish the job.
Those jobs are many. Roosevelt gathered together a successful team for winning the war. And he also got the big powers to agree on an agreement to keep the peace. That is a tremendous achievement, but the real wor\ on peace is ahead, not behind us.
DECISIONS AND ISSUES
The economic reorganisation of the world is in its first stages. It will take strong and unselfish men to bring about an order of decency and fairness.
Decisions on the control of Germany remain to be reached. President Roosevelt had not yet been able to work out with Russia the formation of a new Polish government. That job now faces TrUman.
A decision has to be reached about Spain, because we are now winning the war against Fascism in Europe, at the same time that the Fascist government of Spain still goes on, as a refuge for Germans and as a breeding ground for the next war.
In the Pacific, President Truman faces the issue of whether America is going to keep the bases we have won, and whether the big powers should become trustees for colonies.
Those matters are fundamental, because the road we take will determine just how much responsibility America wants to assume in world affairs.
Those basic, international issues present no bed of roses to a man trying to step into Roosevelt's place. Truman is well aware of the fact that he finds himself between Churchill, the Tory, and Stalin, the Communist — each of them anxious to have security and determined to have it, come what may.
It takes a skillful negotiator to achieve that security for all nations — without making Stalin think that Russia has been denied something, or having Churchill think he has sold out a tiny chunk of the British Empire.
The small nations of the world, just as small people, regarded Roosevelt as their champion. They, as well as Churchill and Stalin, will be studying Truman to see if he is the champion equal to Roosevelt.
On domestic affairs. President Truman inherits many a headache. So did Mr. Roosevelt when he took office. You may remember those first hundred days. When Roosevelt said we had nothing to fear but fear itself.
You may be sure that Roosevelt never forgot those days, how the whole nation — bankers, manufacturers, workers, farmers, ran to Roosevelt to be saved. Nor could he have forgotten how some of these same people who were at their wits end in 1933, began to call him a dictator as soon as they had been put back on their feet again, and their pockets began to fill up.
Those episodes are not water over