CHURCHILL In London, tonight, a gala party was held. The news dispatch calls it - a "sentimental party". The place - Number Ten Downing Stbeet. The host - Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The guests - like a roll call of the friends and colleagues,-. nearest to the heart of th,'ighty year old statesman. Churchill entertained his sovereign, the Queen - ilnd the Duke of Edinburgh. His undoubted succeaaor - Poreign Secretary Anthony Eden. Other top leaders ot the Conaenat1ve Party - and also chietta1n1 oft~• Labor • Party, tor111er P ~ Minister Clement Attlee and Porar Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison, both or whoa were Churchill's colleagues 1n the coalition cabinet during the Second World War. The guest list, in fact, could be a roll call of the ... ehief *time .-Mssociatea of Winston Churchill~ Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of El Alamein attending - along with Field Marshal Alexander of Tunis. CHURCHILL - 2 London calls it a "sentimental" party - because, according to all aprearances, it was Churchill's last official ente~tainment - as Prime Minister. He is expected to announce his retirement from office - tomorrow. Or maybe - the next day. The bowing out of one or the greatest of British atatea•n. Today, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden began open preparations - for his own debut as Prime Minister. 'ftlat'a the way London looks at it. Eden- calling a meeting of the Chencellor or the Exchequer, and the Minister of Detenae. Theyfre expected to be a aortJ of triumvirate - and today they called 1n Lord Woolton, Chairman of the Tory Party. Which ia taken to mean that they discussed - a general election. Probably - in the next Jdl three months. A new ., ., Eden Cabinet - to go to the country. EVANGELIST Reports from Scotland picture - an enormous continuing success for Evangelist Billy Graham. Who ls the third week of a ' tell Scotland" crusad The preacher fro the U.S. A. draws an average of more than fifteen thousand apectator.s per night. And averages - four hundred converts each tille. For his last appearance, u he 11 expected to draw a crowd or one hundred and twenty thousand, at HU1Pden Park Arena, 1n Glasgow. But, at the same time, Billy Graham has b e e n ~ ihto controversies. Scottish liberals have attacked hill - •• a "strict rundamentalist 11 • On the other aide, Church conservatives frown and say - ~e • s a modernist. , /" as tol~ or an 4rgumen..,Ythe •rican ,,, when~ spoke - as belonging to the jungle. .. #7- r. prtect1ng anilllals protested against tha. A-A , ..c- e Then, the other Sunday, Billy Graham took an after- noon trip to the country - to get some fresh air. Which got EVANGELIST - 2 , him into trouble with strict S c ottish Sabbatarians. Complaints - that he was ' desecrating__Jhe Sabbath ' ' by such 11 fr1vol1ty ~ ~~~~~~~~ Old time church tradition in Presbyterian Scotland can be strict. People were shocked when the Evangelist waa photographed on the golf course - ~wu.r1:nc a IMM,lt golf cap. Illich too frivolous - for a preacher. 1n dour ,.,. Scotland. LYSIKOV Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov, today, made a formal demand - for the return of Valery Lysikov. The seventeen year old son of a Russian Army officer. The boy - who fled to the West · . Young Lysikov was granted political asylum by American authorities in v■,■a Western Gemany. Bis parents visited him - but he refused to go back. U.S. otticlals have repeatedly refused - to send him back. Now an otticlal demand - made by Moscow. Molotov~ handing a communication to the U.S. Ambassador. ADD LYSIKOV In W · shington, the State Department says it will "give consideration" to Molotov a damands. But officials repeat - that Lysikov will not be sent back against his will. CHINA - PLOT The Chinese Red . Radio accuses prominent ommun1st leaders of plotting against the Mao Tse Tung regime. One, the former party boss of Manchuria - has committed suicide. Kao Kang - accused of trying to seize leadership. Also - of setting up an ' ' independent principal! ty." Kao Kang did not make the usual Communist confession. A fact - which the Red Radio aua states 1n a peculiar way. "Kao" it says, not only did not admit his guilt - but he even committed suicide as an expre111on 1P of his ultimate betrayal of the party." His loyal duty was, apparently, to live and confess. It remains to be seen if Red China will now have a purge -- in the style of Stalin exterminating his enemies back in the Nineteen Thirties. JAPAN Japan is threatened with a political crisis - over a diplomatic blunder, a faux pas. Prime Minister \ t~lking/ Hatoyama critici z ed - for talking prematurely,)\~too much. C using him - to 11 lose r'ace'. Always a serious matter 1n the Orient, a 'loss of .tiace." The Premier made an announcement that he was sending his Foreign Minister to Washington - to discuss important proble1D8 with the U.S. government. Then, after making the announcement, Premier Hatoyama conmtunicatad with Washington. He should have done that - first off. Because Secretary of State Dulles replied - he'd be too busy for conferences with the Japanese Foreign Minister. So, today, the Premier had to take it all back, and admit the trip was off, for the time being. He said he "r~retted"- having made the previous announcement. Well ~ . that would be embarrassing for a Prime Minister 1n any ountr. In Jap , t a h v fir - tor that ' loss o face 11 • l1t1 1 YEMEN S,J/..4lflo~ ~ t-~ Reports from the far of~land of Yemen - te1fr a dynastic stru le. With civil war - threatening. King Ahmed- in conflict with his ~rother, Ab ullah. Who is trying to seize the crowd for hiJJ\5elf. over the weekend, the word ta wa that Abdullah, backed by the Yemenese army, had presented K Ahmed with a demand for his abdication. And Ahmed, ha yielded. But thia is denied - by · rown Prince El Badar, snn of Ahmed. Who 1ay1 - his father is now being besieged 1n the stronghold or Taez, in southern Yemen. Besieged - by his brother \ ~ Abdullah, at the hea~ and of rebellious troops. Today 1n Cairo, Crown Prince Al Badar s nt an urgent message to the Arab League - asking for intervention, to avert civil war in the Yemen. Only a few weeks ago, I m~self, was flying along - - :..... ~ ~ 4 ~ >.!~~"". the border of the :tuaxu forbidden land of Yeme~ During those travels in remote Arabia - about which I told in u recordings on this program. One - describing that airplane YEMEN -2 trip. · ; hlch took us not far from the stronghold ot Taez - where King Ahmed is no said to be besieged. Back 1n Aden, we heard of dist bances in the Yemen. The British Governor of Aden had gone to the Yemeneee .... 'IJ,~. frontier - t~ U. There was ol'd or disturbances among the Sultanates along the border. Which may have been connected with today's news of a struggle for the throne. Well, it's all part or · a grim, savage story. In Nineteen Forty-Eight, the previous ruler of the Yemen,,!{, ~---t4J....wt King Yah Yah, was assassinated - along with two sons. JA. And a usurper seized the throne. But there were two other sons of the murdered king - and they survived. Ahmed and Abdullah - who drove out the usurper. Ahmed - becoming ICing. But now those two brothers are at war with each other. A>dullah - trying to ■eize the crown from Ahmed. ADD YEMEN A later dispatch states that the Cro n Prin . ce has gone back to Yemen - ti lead afore of tribe men. Trying - to raise the selge of his father• · s fortress. CONVICT There as a desperate es c ape attempt - at the Florida State Prison today. A desperado - trying to shoot his way out, killing - a veteran prison official, and woundtng two guards. George Heroux, serving twanty-five years for arm robbery, had a gun - procured 1n some t'lknown way. He held up a guard, and forced the p•• guard to take him to the otrtce or Assistant Superintendent J. O.Ooodwin. Apparently., the cont1ct had intended to seize Goodwin as a hostage. Bot, other prison guards became aware or what•• go1-'lg on. They were closing 1;, when the desperado decided - he'd try to shoot his way out. In the fusillade that followed, the casualties occurred. The convict - overpowered. Now - charged with the murder of the assistant superintendent. BLIZZARD In the western mountains - a record breaking bli za rd. Like a nightmare - of wind and snow. A cyclonic storm blo 1ng at sixty miles an hour. With a snowfall - of twenty-six inches. Highways - blocked far and • Wide. Rabbit Ears Pass, 1n the Cci:>rado Rockies - closed by enormous drifts. Same thing at Loveland and Berthoud passes - west of Denver. Search parties looking - for marooned Ja motorists. But the real nightmare •is at Sheridan, Wyomng. The town isolated. The Red Cross - managing to get througl, with emergency supplies. Headquarters - in a hospital on the outskirts of the town. But now, Red C~oss head- quarters - marooned. Isolated from the town - by deep snowdrifts and the raging winds. In New England, same sort of story. A springtime ~ ~ .,_~.-... .,no.~- blizzard - bringing twenty-four inches of snow.-A At Mount Snow, RM'ihw&OMNl ~~ .. one hundred skiers, caught in a snowstorm). ~ooned - in impr~visJtt5· Jnt:) q . . ~ ~ v . ~ ~ - - - -;r~ .... vL.,...;:R.i,/. KALTENBORN A dispatch from Madison, Wisconsin, states that Radio ommentator H V Kaltenborn has donated his entire collection of personal papers, documents and recordings - to the Wisconsin Historical Society. Also - providing a fund for study and classification of the huge mass of material. The Wisconsin Historical Society says: "Here, in one collection, are documents which cover the history of broadcasting, from its beginning to the present." Well, it sure is that. Today begins H V Kaltenborn's thirty-third year on the air. He stated - back in the antediluvian days o ~?A , 1 2 , : l f - ~ . -~~ The primitive era - of the old "crystal set." Ever since then, with a few brief intermissions, "H.V." has been on the air - with the news. He 1 s a man of strong lllll opinions, strongly stated - in that clear, clipped, pragmatic tone. Here ' s an example - on the humorous side. An episode - at the mocrat1c National Convention in Nineteen Thirty-one, when Franklin KALTENBORN - 2 D. Roosevelt as nominated the first time. Kaltenborn did a let of fillin in on the air. Giving sidelights - between the main events. He's always been great at that - as an ad libber, talking off the cuff. So, during a quiet interval, he interviewed a hot dog seller at the Convention Hall. For local color - the light touch. The interview went all right, until H.V. asked the hot dog seller - how much he got for a frankfurter, the f V price. The hot dog seller replied: "twenty cents." 'Twenty cents!" exclaimed Kaltenborn. "o~at Scott that•s too much. Twenty cents for a frankfurter? That's outrageous. 11 . ill f which - was u correct enough. Back in those days, before inflation, a nickel as the right price for a hot dog. But you should have heard the roar from the frankfurter company! They made an angry protest - u de a n n g a n a pol og y , a r e tr c tio n , f rom al tenborn . B r oadc s tin g o f ' i ci l s, ' D a ting to u iet th e storm, s u. gest d th t li . V . shoul m a ke a mo L i yin g st a te ent. B ut he wou ld n't. He flatly r e fused. l a ltenborn got into hot wa ter, b e cause o i hot dogs - but he stuck to his princip l es. insisting it was an outrage to , ch a rge twenty cen a for a nickel f ran i: f u rte r. - 0 - Hugh, on his thirty-thir d ra i o bi rtbda)' - he re's ' to the dean of us a l l! And may the dean long be B. V. so I say - fervently. , · or the next in line you see - happens to be - yours truly.