.JL.Q~_.Q_[ ..:_ RJ,;J!C~ ~~ . ; i . . . . , . ~ ~ ~ ' q· . . _.vq™:1 cr e t ry of St at e Byrnes decl a red today th a t t ni t e d tat e s will b a ck the peace tr•aties d ra f t ,,,, . by the Big Four - but if the peace conference / h s any chanees to su gest, he ill tr to get the g Four to agree ith these. The 3athering of the United Rations will & deliberate on the terms to be imposed on the Axis satellites. The conference may agree or disagree ; with the provisions laid down by the Council of the Foreign Ministers of the United ~ta t es/ ~re at Brit a in," . France / and ~ oviet Russia. Any disagreement will have to be by~ to-thirds vote. The peace conference can propose ., alterations if to-thirds of its member vote that way. Any such changes will be only advisory - they ill not be binding on the Big Four, fhe major powers may okay conference decisions of their own free will -: that's a11,,/n this lies the significance of the Byrne s de c 1 a rat i O n t o day - t • h e American S ore tar y of State declaring that he will fight for any changes made PE CE C FERE CE - -------- -- - by the peace conference, and ·11 w1 try to get the Big Four to g ive their assent. The Byrnes declaration was made today in the c o ur se of an address by the American Secretary of State. He urged the importance of making an enduring peace, / founded on wisdom and not revenge : and in general impressed the ideals of the United Rations. 47 But the i _!£ rtant thing was the Byrnes pledge that the United States will accept any decision made by the confer e nce• and will try to persuade the Big Four to accept any such decision. / Previously, Secretary Byrnes had won an easy and unexpected ' victory - when he put across a proposal for freedom of news at the peace conference, ,I In th is there was a surprise, a Molotov surprise. · 1~ had been suppos e d that the Soviets would try for I s~re,.g~, Soviet secrecy being such a by-word. But Molotov promptly supported Byrnes, ' and added bis own ~ . demand ' that the proceedings of the peace conference be given the fullest possible publicity. hatever ppositi~n there w a s oame from I' school - the traditional diplomacy iploo a ts of the old of the past• ta having been accu s tomed to work behin closed doors. An old-style diplomat~hies away from the li ht of the freedom of the news. However, / / H yr n~ H and Molotov had no difficulty in putting across their demand for full publicity. / I The obst~cles and dead~ocks encountered by the peace conference today didn't come from diplomatic sn a gs and conflicts of opinion. The trouble was - a telephone strike. In Paris, ,,.. the telephone workers staged a ten hour I walk-out -- a strike of protest to emphasize a demand for higher wages. And that snarled up communications at the peace conference. Telephone service in Paris never was ~ny' too good. The way you could wait to get a number in Paris always was a cause for profanity.The Btrikers announced that they would keep enough wires open for necessary peace conference calls. But that was a snare / and a delusion. You couldn't get a call through -- · and fiAQI_ O HF ~ R E NCE - 4 the del e g a t e s were ~solated from their st i ffs in various ho t els, not to mention their governments in the sundry capitals of the world. _f__I __ _ n : ws d i · p t ch from B e r in stats that, m ic n rm A ents have gone to g t th two . i c hos dis / pp ar nee ha be n uch a u z 1 t l n ' of ark, . n e J ers and Lieut nant , at t of 0 ahoma ity. ey went into the ' ovi et on of B rlin early a month ago, and haven't been seen since. I he case has been peculiar all abng, and this lat t n ws is e q ually peculiar. . I It states that this afternoon A ■ erioan Int lli nee Uf . ice s rece j v d a t lephonP call r he d hrmy askin that someone be sent to / ick up C ptain obin and Lieutenant ' yatt. This I a t r r~peated as urances from the Rus ians that they didn't no anything about the two mis ing of icers. They s or that -- •on th ir honor.• American Uilitar~ overnor, G ~ neral McNarney stat d that the Russian Com ma nder had d n i e d t ha t the u i ans . ere detainin obin and yatt. oda ', how ver, the Red Army said __ come and get them. I American comment in Berlin was that .Qf:. lQ. _B. _ - 2 n · t, · ntio ns f or the rel ea 0 h two had finally I n c mpleted -- so tonight Arm y A g nt are on their way t rin them back. Here's the latest, a builetin which fl has just been handed to me. The two American officers & ■ IC 3 •ta •• I ~ - eta I I l 1 • • • ,,,1an I r . . . . . . - . . were handed over by the Red Army late last ni ht to Major General Frank Keating commanding the merican district of Berlin, PL ' TINE ---------- This morni n g in Jerusalem , the British High Commission r, General • ir Alan Cunningham, made a broadcast-announcement to the people of Palestine - st a ting th t the British authorities had word of the whereabouts of the Jewish extremists who i J mb ... d the King David Hotel . There was evidence, declared Sir Alan were , that t he bombers of the Hotel ••••• hiding in Tel Avi v. That radi a n nouncement w as follo w ed by action on the la r gest p o ssibl e scale - massed Britis h f~rces converging o n the city for one of the greates t manhunts ever staged . Tel Avi v, on the Palestine coast north · ot • Jaffa, is a modern city oft o hundred thousand. I t ~ the only all-Jewish city in the world - the pride of Zionism. lj C 1 ••* ; It I - ! i I JES IE I f C •• 1 2 i IL , _, 1 8 ■ 1 ab1 ■ 1 pttt ts D 11 ii t I It I s l •• v Illa • •• 1 2 ; t, i 0 th e British info~mation was not / surprisin ~ the information that Tel Aviv was the hidin place of the bombers of the hotel. These are members of the Zionist under round organization Irgun . ; . ~ ~--,..-~ Z- vai LeJmi - hich terrorist group has openly ad■ itted the desperate act of violence that took mo~e than a hundred live • Since the hotel outrage, which stirred the British to bitter anger, a hunt for the hotel bombers has been on - and now-the ~~imax at Tel Aviv. - The first act in the manhunt was the imposition of a curfew. They've been having ourtewa in I Palestine, time and again, but the one _J, oday was the most ri orous of all. The entire population ot the cit7 was ordered indoors: two hundred thousand people kept in their houses, and the penalty of violation-•a• - / death. The official order stat~d •any person contravening the curfew in Tel Aviv will be shot on --tight". Even the city police were included in the curfew_ all the policemen of Tel viv reported to stay . indoors. The city was taken over by fifteen ~} thousand troops of the Sixth British Airborne Division~ the Red Devils who won fame in battle against the Nazis in Ho~ and. They placed Tel Aviv under heavJ guard, with military precautions that made the city seem like a focus of war. Bren-gun carriers patrolled Machine tun crews established position• . entanllements at strategic points~ tall- barbed wire ■ •i•I were laid across the streets; and field telephones / set up. The way the Red Devils dug in had a look of permanence,' as if the manhunt at Tel Aviv were expected to last for some time. / The search was methodical and complete, - house to house. Squads of soldiers went ~hrough one / /. building after another, investigating every rooa_. the cellars, ~he rooftops / - and they seized people by the thousands. They held every person who could not give satisfactory answers to questions. These were herded into barbed wire pens, where they were questione further by.intelligence officers. Those whose replies ere satisfactory, were sent home. Others were arrested f] and taken away in trucks ' - to detention camps. The news tells of hundreds on their way to the camps, / where they'l l be investigated further about their r affiliations, if any, with the extremist organizations of the Jewish under 6 round. British officials declare that the manhunt ' - . I • ~ 'tt·"""·~ is aimed a\ Irgun Zvai Leu ■ i, which did the hotel / bombing, and another group cal~ed the stern gans - which is intensely violent and fanatical. The1 explain that the search of Tel Aviv is not directed / ~ against the official Jewish underground ar ■y, Bagana- - which is moderate. Hagana in fact, has vigorously / denounced the blowing up of the [ing David Hotel, and there was some indication that the modern underground army might join the British a ainst the / extremists. That now, however, seems not to be the case_ the word from Palestine being that Bagana would not help the British in today's manhunt. The latest is a report that the British, P A L E ' TI.N ~ - 5 ----- a t T el viY t oday, discovered a secret arsenal, ~ I wh re we a pons were made. And the rumor is that this ar se n · 1 w s the place where milk-can bombs were . / f a bric a ted. This, if true, is of dramatic significance - bec a u · e the King David Hotel was bl-0wn up by exp osive ,.. , i n mil k cans, a cunnin g and deceptive kind of bomb. Y Cl, I ---- - -- P r i nt T r uman s r d er e d 11 possible V r nm t io n in th e G O g 1· 1 b' / a ync 1ng case -- the i ll in I ur ne roes, two of L em om n. He co r rl' ' 1 ' th A tornPy n ral Clark,'wbo te r s i d nt's at t itud in these words: " ex e to me his horror at the crime/and his s y f o l e family f the victim." The President / 1 s i n tructed the Department of J tioe and the to roceed •,; i th all t 1e ir resources in W.. "'-'. inv e tigation of this or any other crime of oppression. T h Attorn y uen e ral states: "We hope for an early so l ution of these shocking murders.• The ueorgia lynching is followed by a as of viol e nce against a negro in Mississip.i. Be S{ was hi p e d by white men, an d then his body waa ; foun in a l a oon. This is described as a lynching, I t negro said to have been whipped to death -- but . the e vi de nces are conflicting. I At Lexington, Mis s issip p i, six •hite men hav e b ee n r r sted, one o f hom admi t s that he took L ' C I G -------- rt i h hi i n . B a y s the n J'O, who worked n i c , '1 ' as ac " J ed by oth r n o s of having t o d le n w o r tha t. : i c on 1 ~h d with trap and uggy s m to indicate no gr ea t rPg for law -- to say the least. ~he whit man h r to o p rt i n th e •hip p i n , den i e s t t. t it had anythin 0 to o with ih death of the negro. I' This Mississippi case is included in the ins ~ ructions that President lruman gave to the ' . . / At t orney General today -- to have the Department of Justic and the E.B.I. in•estigate all crimes of o ression. A ' F --------- -- a t ry to Thi h y has ar Profiteering Inv st i ati n h~ard but th c _ he _ ck that C ongr ssm an C f ee n a much talk d O a ng l -- a t nty- i v hun · r d ollar check iven to t he a r ro th e tat of ,a hingt n by a contractor h o go t a i g r or er. Con gressma n Cof ee has a mitted all alon that be r e ceived the money, and has d f nded this by sayin that the tw nty-five hundred ollars w a a campaign contribution. W h ich, however, / n not the version given by the contraotor today. is name is an s~n, and he told the e d Committee that back in Nineteen Forty-One, 1 he was tryin to get an 4 rmy contract for hosp ital build / / e •J says he was low bidder, and got the job -- a • million dolla r contract. In this he was aided by ,,, Ccngre man Co£fee. According to Ander s on, the I" Congressman's s~cretary, Paul Olso n , tol him he ou ht to ha ve 8 Rep resentative in Wahin g ton to help a 1 t, } e a rmy business. To11hi ch And rson replied that t d · f a ct, ad ded twenty- iv hundred , lD A ' 0 I T --- - --- - --- d ol u t the co n tr a ct r 1·c t o pay a e p res e nt a tive 1 ' ' o i n g t o n . ., 7 La t er , ace r in g t o A nde r s on, Con ressman I o f e n 01 on took him into a corridor in the Capi l , to a 1 c e that An d erson d s cribes s -"Under a i n i n st a ircas e ." There { says he, the Con ressman a r o v d of th e idea of an de rson paying twenty-five h u n d re · ol l ar t o have Ol ~ on repr sent hi• in lashin g ton. And Anderson q uotes the Congressman as s ayin g : "If you'll do that, you can depend on us to look a f t e r your interests here, 1 and we'll alway~ be yo ur f ri e nd s ." So the twenty-five hundred dollar . ch e ck ,. sen t to Olson. I In t e llin g that story today, And e rson w s k d __ ha d the twenty- f ive hundred dollars been, 1n an y y, a cam a i g n contr i bution, as Con g ressman C o ffee sa i d it had been? Anderson repli d -- no, it w a s no t a cam . ai g n contr i b J ti o n. ( The uestionin ot roun d to t he o ct / that n d er on, aft e r th e w r c ontract busin e s , h d . n r a or T a c m , e a i n s t O o n • I t, s ms t ha t b ~dl y bat n b Olson in the a ralty el e ctio , " n d i ci ' t 1 any too oo abodt that. Th ·t Wa-t. 1 ness"r emiu d that, accor . ing to . i · o ' n Lory toda , he had p ai d a bribe. H dn' he n v. that a yment of th t kind as again t the law? r 1 i d, no he haci n' t. Congressman of ee as present at the hea ring hile the Anderson tory was being told. He wil l g ive his own account as a witnes later -- his version of the affair o f the twenty-five hundred d oll r check.)