Task of Conciliating World Leaders Faces New President, Says Friedrich

"Increased Congressional control of this country will be a primary result of the President's death," Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government and director of the School for Overseas Administration, predicted yesterday.

Whenever a big man has been succeeded by a lessor one, he pointed out, the power of the legislature has grown immeasurably. "With the Congress so evenly balanced and with many of the Southern Democrats on the right side of the House and Senate," Professor Friedrich added, "such a trend becomes even more likely."

He indicated that while Roosevelt had the stature and presence to dominate Congress, it is unlikely that Truman can step up to assume the great burdens so long resting in the personality of a single man.

Relations among the big four will also become an increasingly serious problem, he added, saying, "My chief worry is in Truman's ability to handle the others. Roosevelt was always able to keep Stalin and Churchill from each others' throats."