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President Harry S. Truman's 301st news conference, held in the Indian Treaty Room (Room 474) in the Executive Office Building at 10:35 a. m. on Thursday, April 24, 1952. Press Secretary Joseph Short speaks also. Topics discussed include: the role of the President in seizing the press and radio in the event of a national emergency; the role of steel in the defense industry, and in the preservation of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization); attacks on Truman by Alexander Jones of the Syracuse Herald-Journal in a recent speech; small movement in the House to have the President impeached; Averell Harriman; Frank McHale; Hoover Commission (Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government); the President's inherent powers during a state of national emergency; the ultimatum to the Soviets at the Potsdam Conference to get out of Persia (Iran) by 1945 and the President's attempts at achieving world peace. Others mentioned include: Dean Acheson, Dwight D. Eisenhower, W. Averell Harriman, and George C. Marshall.