CONFERENCE L.T.-D E L C O . MONDAY, O V EMBER 2 9, 1 9 54 The Western Big Three, toda , m a ea ormal reply to the Soviet invitation - to a "European security conf erence." We knew in a vance - the answer would be "No." Great Britain, France, and the United States, sug g est, however, an East-West Big Four conferen c e - after ratification of the Paris accords for West German re-armament. A couple of weeks ago Moscow came up with a call - for a meeting of the Foreign Ministers of twenty-five nations. ¢.:JJJ"'" Tha /\ 'European Secur1 ty Conference." Actually, 1 t opened in the Soviet capital today - with only Red satellites at tending. .._..., ... :t;"iking up some newJron ~tain al ignaent. And - blaring the Moscow "peace" ' propaganda. The We tern Powers frown on this "hurry-up" convocation. Their idea is - a four-power conference with more sound substance. In today's diplomatic note five points were lai out. Including - Soviet signing of an Austrian peace treaty. Also_ some clear definition of w hat Moscow means F =, CONFERENCE - 2 by ' free ele t ons 11 in Germany. The note empha izes - that the western powers are oing wit/. ahead A re-armament of Western Germany. And - will not o into talks with Soviet Russia, until the Paris accords have been ratified. - PRISONERS The Stat e De p artment has g iv e n out the n ames of t w enty- s i more Ameri c an s he l prison e r b th Chi R y e nese e s. ot in c lu in - the t hirteen au sentenced on phony espiona g e assueations last week. The addition list includes the names of missionaries, business-men, · and students • .AL '!'he information was given to the Senaw Republican J\ L eader,Knowlan~ of California . Who promptly states: "I think we are going to have to do something other than send notes through the United Nations. In my judgment, the prisoner are all entitle to the protection of their gover1111ent. Senator Knowland has come out with a demand for a naval blockade of the China Coast - to force the rAlease of imprisoned Americans. Some members of Congress echo the demand. Still others - oubtful about the blockade idea. Today, Democratic leader Senator Lyndon Johnson of Texas remarke d - that such naval action w ould be for the joint ?hiefs of Sta f f to pass on. PRISONERS - 2 Senator Johnso observin - that it's up to resident Eisenho er to ondu tour f orei gn poli y . Senator Geor e of Geor g ia .d eclared a naval blockade to the C hinese mainland woul mean - a general war. AA - ~ the sp ee y eath o~American prisoners. - SUB ADD PRISONERS Toni g ht, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles told the American people - th&t we will "exhaust peaceful means." R a ther than - resort to war action, in dealing with Red hina. The Secretary - rejecting the proposal to blockade the Chinese mainland. He thought - the Reds might be trying to provoke us into a cour e of action that would break the alliance of the western,■••• powers. Which, said he, we can't allow. GERMMY West G ermany l s t~y1n g to fi g ure out the meani of two ele c tions - held over the weekend. Elections in the States of Bavaria and Hesse. The battle of the ballots was for local offices, but,the campaign was waged on the burnin g issue - West German re-armament, and the Saar agreement. In athol1c Bavaria, Adenauer's Christian Democrats won an increase of Nineteen seats in the Bavarian legislature. Which theyaTe ~111ng as a victory for the Chancelbr's policy. In the neighboring state of Hesse, the Soclaliats won out over the Christian Democ~ats. The Soclslists - opposing the Paris accords on re-arment, especially, the settlement of the Saar valley question with France. So The two elections are~ stand-off. Giving no clear I~ cut in 1cat1on of West German popular opinion - concerning re-armament and the Saar. 0 VIET NAM - 2 fo the ime This promises to strengthen ' the position of Premier Diem. Which, in tum, would please the United States. We want southern Viet Nam to have a sound, stable govemment - as a bulwark against Communism. VIET NAM To ay' news tells of a drastic measure - to s olve the polit ical c ri si s in s outhern Viet Nam. The Army Chief o f ta f, Gener a l Hinh - ismisse from his pot by WIit ' Emperor Bao D11. F or weeks, the military c ommander had been at feud with Premier Diem, head of the civilian g overnment. The remier tried to fire the General) but1 the General wouldn't g et out. Today's decision was made in France - where the Empero~ Bao Dai has been living for many weeks. He spent the final , period of the Indo China war, vacationing on the French Riviera. C lled - the play-boy Emperor. The Reds have taken over the northern part of his Kingdom. But Bao Dai seems to have retaine imperial influence in his far off country. p BOMBERS This country 1s building a four billion three hundre million ollar araada of the sky. ../ Three hundred~fifty Jet bombers, cap able of ca rrying hydrogen bombs to any part of the worl . The B - 52 - flying at six hundred miles an hour. Our hy rogen bomb air fleet is now equipped with B-36 bombers, propeller driven - much slower. The change-over to MRI the gi ant Jet bombers~ take - several years. Recently, we hear, Soviet Russia displayed models of jet bombers. One - resembling the B-52. But Russia, they say, would have no defense against a hydrogen bomb attack by those hu g e planes. Each - u with eight jet engineaJ ,Af\d - a global ran e. FERMI .. hen 'ire , toda y, r e vie e the ca e e r of r . Enrico ermi - w ho , more than an yone e l se, crea te d the ato mi c bomb. V i ctim of c ancer - at the a e of on ly fif ty-t , hree. T he irony being - that radio activity, whi h he id so much to develope, holds out hope of possible c ure for cancer. ~1& car eer - fu~l of the drama of the modern physics. A111111._...,, young ecientist, in Rome - bombarding elements with sub-atomic particles) --••• .. he came upon a strange /L~ ~~zle. Bombarding u uranium, he g ot ~~~ . . ~ didn't realize - what it meant. - a mysterious effect. In Nineteen Thirty-Eight, Enri co Fe rmi won the Nobel Prize for physics - and went with his f amily to Stockholm, to receive it. Ne never went back to hi~ative Italy. The reason - Mussolini's alliance with Hitler. Which C brought about - anti-semttic moves in Italy. Fermi's wife - of Jewis h origin. He came to the Unite d States in January, Nineteen FERMI - 2 Thirty-Nine. Shortl y afterward - t he fateful news. In Germ a ny, rofes s or Ott o Hahn had split the uranium atom. Which explaine d the pu zz le k Fermi ha d encountere , back in. Rome. He, actually, had split the uranium atom without reali z in g it. Hahn, repeating Fermi's experiments had hit ' upon the correct explanation. The fis ·- ion of the uranium atom - g iving off tremendous amounts of energy. The meaning - of staggering importance. Pointing - to • the possibility of an atomic bomb. Fermi foresaw - a chain reaction. Uranium atoms - exploding, one after another, in a tremendous blast. Then c ame the test'8rm1 's llulll theory of a chain ~ tf..t • .tM-., _J reaction. 1111 id lo,.JIP~ the historic experlment,Aunderlli( football standa, at the Un1vers1ty of C hicago. Enrico Fermi runnin the experiment. The result - reported in an historic message, in code. Dr. Arthur Compton - telephoning Dr. James B. Conant, FERMI - ~ then Presi en of Harvard · an hea of warti me research. D r. C ompt on sa ing: 'Th e Italian navigator arrive at the all&• shores of the new worl . " • Well, it was like a Christopher Columbus u of the • atom - ushering in the atomic age. The successful chain reaction experiment - followed by the creation of the bomb. Some while ago, I heard an interesting comment o~ this. Visiting atomic scientists in the B~rkeley, Calitornia, radiation laboratory, I was talking with one of the physicists It might have been Nobel Prize Winner Dr. Edwin McMillan. He sighed and said - if only Fermi had discovered a slow chain reaction, instead of a fast one. A slow chain reaction would have meant - uranium as atomic fuel for industrial power. A fast reaction - the bomb. If Enrico Fermi, under the football stands, had found a slow chain reaction - the world would have got - atomic power for peace. Instead of - the mena ce of atomic war. MCCARTHY Here ' s t he bi McCarthy ques tion. Di the Senator apolo i z e , t o a y ? Or - di n't he? Wel l , it was ramatic, McCarthy ap peare d in the Senate, t 1 h his arm 'ln a b ig lling. He sai d - hi s te~ays in the lua ho spital ha iven him a chance to think abou t all that censure business. A sort of examination of aau conscience. As a result, he felt - he had no apolo gies to make. But then he wen t on to s ay: "! admit that, at • times, I've been extremely blunt in expressing mfptnions. I do not claim to be a master of 'l or s . This being true," he went on, "I say to those who have been offen e - that I ha d no intention or hurting the feelings o f anyone. ut , ln the facts and opinions tnat I hel d - I am un c ha nged ." Then he went on to concede he ha use 0 a ba d choice of w or 5 in ex c oriating Senator Hendrickson. Also, he used the tJron g or hen he called the c e nsure committ e ''unwitting • MC C ARTH - 2 . han -m ai ens o t h e o mmunists. " B e au s e , x 1 in e art Y , ' a h a n - ma ! e n is a f emales rva nt . An obviously th e y a r e n't f e male servants. ' That' s r1 ht S enator, yo v take on e look a t the members •. ~~r.""~ · of tha t ommitteeK,. are 't la i es. Any ay , M arthy w ant ~ another w or d to be sub s tttute f or I han -mai en. 11 When the speech was over, Senator Mun d t of South Dakota said, tu immediately, that he regarded it as ·, a retraction, ~ .. ,-c'I or apology." ~enatu,• Lehman of New York: ..... , .,...,.gle 11~ ' the issue oes far u beyon d the use o f in d iscreet words." Well, apolo g y or no apology, Senator McCarthy says - he • 1D / ' doesn't e xpe t hi s e c laration, today, to a ffe c t the question o f c ensure. He d idn't mean . it xuxu a s ari ar g ument,, that he s houl not be rebuke d . In s t e a , he ma a propo s al - that th e Se nate sp ee up t h e ma eb a te o n t h e r esolut i dn a g ai nst him. 1th a s ho w own · MCCARTHY - ! vote - at three .M. on Wednesday. That was a surprise - McCarthy pressing for a decision so so~i/fi':!ot1on";1avorably received by Demo~rats and Republicans. FOLLOW MCCARTHY Here's the latest. The Senate agree unanimously, tonight, to ac c ept the time limit set by Senator McCarthy. Curtailed debate 1n such a way - that a showdown vote may be taken at three p.M. on Wednesday. In New York, tonight - a pro-McCarthy mass meeting in Madison Square Garden. Held by the organization called "Ten million Americans." Rear Adairal John a. Cr011111elili, retired, charged - there 1a a hidden force in the White House. Which seeks - to end all congressional 1nve1tigatlona of Co11111Unist infiltration or the governaent. SOLAR BOAT In the sha ow of the Great Pyraml, a econd g reat stone slab was lifte to ay. ,s they proceeded - with the ~ uncoverin g of the solar boat. An expert on wood says the - . ~ ........ -- -····" craft is well preserved, after five thousand year"",tacM underground cham ber. Archaeolo 1sts are pu7.zled by a strong scent or sycamore rising from the solar boat. One guess is - that ......... c.,.,.. there's an urn or svcamore MO"TISL inside the boat. The . ~~ - ancient Egyptians may have used it - to perfwae the way ot the Pharaoh, on his voyage to eternity. Pharoah Cheops - who built the Great Pyrwd. • The King of Nepal - has postponed a trip to the United States. His Himalayan Majesty is now in Switzerland_ for medical treatment. His plan had been to continue• on. and visit the U.S . A. But now King Tribhuvana has had to \!hange that. Why? American immigration rules. Whicb do not permit even a royal sovereign to enter the United State, - with two wives. The King of Nepal has two queens - according to ancient ' custom. 'lbey're sisters - and he married them on the s - day. They always appear with him - both dressed alike. Each wearing - a blue sari one day. A pink sari - another daJ. In Switzerland, the Royal 3ecretary says: "'ftle IC1ag has to marry two queens to make it more certain - that thee - will be an heir to the crown. It's" declares the secretary, M. very fitting custom for a king. If