L-T. - SUNOCO. MONDAY. OCTOBER 23. 19A0. GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: Sensation followed sensation today on the European scene. In the midst of the excitement over the Italian Greece, a spectacular report resounded in London— Hitler's^.i'iiup» about to enter Spain. Tnat was the outcome of the conference between the Fuehrer and 7T Franco last week. The .,zl PO»r tl,. Iberi» “ I' „ ti-Sk- J _ attack on Gibraltar— ^ PJL UsMfe That report, from London. It was . a ^ Madrid fk '-spokesman for the Spanish Foreign quickly contradicted in Madrid, y p ^ a that Soain remains non-belligerent. The Italian Office announced thcit bpain ( - invasion of Greec^e. no change in that^ The spokesman * Trnir as conditions in the western Mediterranean said further that so long and northern Africa are ^ there’ll be no likelihood into the war. of Spain’s being drawn actively However, th£ report froa London^ is not LEAD - 2 073L without plausible and corrob^tive detail. ^liS founded upon diplomatic information received at t&m embassies in the British capital. Anci the same sources go on to declare that another part of the agreement made between Hitler and Franco was that Spain should receive part of what %as hitherto French territory in Morocco. Thus the Italian attack on Greece .wtSI. become part of the ---- -A A pincers movement, with a German attack on Gibraltar and the occupation of territory on the other side of the straits. It is pointed out that if Spanish troops do not take part in that German attack on Gibraltar, the Spanish Foreign Office can still hold on to a thin pretense that Spain remains technically neutral. TK But for the time being there is no consumation of those A long expected events in the western Mediterranean. It*s the eastern end tonight that captures our attention, Battle, murder and sudden death once again hover over "The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece, Where burning Sappho loved and sung. Where grew the arts of war and peace,” as Byron once told us. Wh £t actually happened in those isles today is not LEAD - 3 #'VJ'”^f°nifent ive are stl11 Pretty much in the dark about 2^ actual details of the war moves on both side^^^^^^dennite / t :;t the Greeks are not giving injto Mussolini; jttoy=fc«p^.ghting back for all theytp worthy wnd-iVj* also «t»f4alt-.». that the British are helping tnem. The official British position was conveyed in a message from King George the Sixth himself. He promised that Greece should have, as he put it, T,all the assistance A in our power.” A similar message to Greek Premier John Metaxas was sent by Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The move did not take London by surprise; evidently a naval plan of operation had been planned, and it was announced that this plan of operation v/as being carried out. But naturally 4^1 i the Admiralty made no statement^ what that plar^of=^pett£±±aiT=TOS* ^f^fr^rfrOTrft-imors are rife all over the eastern end of the Mediterranean, and one of these xunout- had it that there had been a naval engagement between Italian and Greek warships off the Island of Crete. Still another rumor reported that Mussolini's planes had bombed the town of Kastoria in northern Greece. Tuere was also a report that two Italian planes had been shot down over that of attack^may be followed by the Italians, an attack from Koritza on the Albanian frontier. British military authorities report that the second largest concentration of Fascist troops is at TT" Koritza. Both British and Greek sources of information report tnat the Italian attack, which came so suddenly and with virtually no warning, was not successful blitzkrieg did not come off. (ihe ureeKs pushed the Italian vanguard back and pursued them over the frontier into Albania. There’s a report from Jugoslavia that the Italians have run into another difficulty. Hardly had their attack upon the unoffending Greeks begun, before rebellion broke out behind them in Albania. That rebellion is rumored to have become a widespread revolt, so serious that it has hampered the movements of Italian troops against Greece. ____ _——* ——" /; #4itl/|inother dispatch brings the story that the British have landed troops on Crete, also an expeditionary force at Kephlonia, one of the larger islands just northwest of Morfa, LKAP - 5 it" t he Greeks are fighting back, apparently umited to man, determined to in^i the Fascists/Athens was full of war enthusiasm^and cheering parades^ which gave a great reception to the flags of Great Britain, Turkey and the United c St&t^s* Some of Mussolini’s big three-motored bombers were seen i in the sky over the majestic^a±?jKr?$ of the Acropolis. Bombs fell on the civil airport of Athens. An American correspondent heard a score of bombs explodethe naval base at Salamis, where the Greeks once hurled back the might of the Persian empire in one of the great naval battles of history. The correspondent stood on a hotel roof and saw big columns of smoke arise from behind the ground where the great'^ericles used to harangue the A j . I where Socrates had stood defending himself against his xr. accusers before the Assembly far no bombs have dropped on any of the priceless StMVrOut relics of the ancient city. John*Metaxas, the Premier, has A- appealed to Mussolini to look upon Athens as an open city, to treat it as other belligerents are treating Rome. Bo far there has been no reply from the Black Shirt Duce LEAD _ 6 Of course the beginning of Mussolini1s blitzkrieg on Greece V F£tc=*t*t* of has JE& a tke rest of the Balkans n twrrj and King Boris of Bulgaria held a meeting of his excitement parliament and made another announcement of Bulgarian neutrality. In Jugoslavia there^ the greatest anxiety lest that country be dragged into the fray. The Jugoslavs expect to receive a demand \ from the Axis to permit them to more troops through their territory for the campaign on Greece. Jugoslav leaders object violently to giving such permission. But all the xxxxx^sxxMi best routes not only from central Europe but from Italy lead to Greece through Jugoslavia. While Mussolini's troops «ere starting his would-be _____ ___ ----- {2 A blitzkrieg, the Duce and Hitler were in conference^ Florence. ^ It was at first indicated that the Fuehrer was going to remain in Italy indefinitely. But evidently'there was no substance to that, for later in the afternoon it was officially announced that Hitler w^br^Vay back to Germany. in Turkey, Refit s|am, the Premier, made a nationwide broadcast to his people, he wasn't very definite about anything LEAD - 7 merely tola them the situation is becoming graver and graver. 3ht. Turks, he said, ..re sure of their power and will not hesitote to defend themselves. But diplomats and Foreign Office experts in that part oi the world are quite convinced that the blitzkrieg on Greece is merely a prelude to a Nazi attack on Turkey through Rumania. There was an unofficial warning to the Turks from Germany. If the Turks do anything to help the Greeks, if they commit any act unfriendly to Italy, Nazi Germany will promptly declare war. So far there is no state of war between the Greeks and the Nazis. In Belgrade, capital of Jugoslavia, the diplomats were prophesying that Hitler and Mussolini and Franco had set / December First as a deadline for the' capture of li tanjnil ^ Greece Their conquest it was predicted, would not take more than three weeks. Meanwhile, what about Soviet Russia? Nothing definite. In Belgrave there were rumors that the Soviets had protested to Berlin and Rome against the invasion of Greece. But those are LEAD - 8 just rumors. Officially, Stalin's government has added nothing to what it said a few days ago, that Soviet Russia will be neutral in the Balkans, will not take part in any^imperialistic intrigues there. CHINA Conf^xcting news from China. The Chinese claim a victory against Nanning, the Japanese, annouce^they have recaptured the City of a key position in the Province of Kwangsi. The Japanese pooh-pooh the announcement^ the same time they admit that they withdrew from A Nanning. The i*ikadofs commanders expla/in that they left Nanning because it no longer had much strategic vai up .sMnffrr-t.hre-s^rpTr^i* However, the Chinese repeat that they not only took back Nanning but recaptured two other places in Kwangsi, and that drTmxtA U2 Chiang Kai-shekT pursuing the Japanese column, \.nieh is on the retreat. JAPAN A.n~rii- j . !_ lu Japan and north China, are once again urged to 53 home. This advice is official, St comes from Uncle Sam's A diplomatic offices^ G m -U k SI** tzck: 't&Jl rV-friAJldC woa=tiitra3c&if ie-inaiasjiction* of of the State Department in Washington. Our Axxa embassy at Peiping has dispatched special letters to ail Americans in that part of the world, urging them in these words:- "Give the most serious consideration to our advice about evacuation." Americans will follow that advice it is calculated that A 'A more than a thousand Americans in Shanghai, mostly women and children, home before the First of December CUPPbRS The clipper planes flying passengers and mail across the Atlantic trouble with the weather.---- the route from Lisbon to New York by way of tne Azores. Sometimes they been delayed as much as six days by unfavorable weather. But^ inAfuture that problem will be met. men conditions are bad by way of the Azores, the clippers will follow an alternate route, flying from Portugal^to Portuguese Guin • on the west coast of Africa. From the west coast of Africa they A will hop to the coast of South America^ ^... ""J 1 -m^north the regular South American route,to Miami. The State Department at Washington today gave its consent to this proceeding. POLITICS President Roosevelt heard the news about Mussolini’s attempted blitzkrieg when he reached Newark^ New Jersey. He was making a quick campaign tour through northern New Jersey on his way to New York. Telephone connection was made with his train at Newark and Mr. Roosevelt held two long conversations with Secretary of State-.tordcSi Hull. Evidently the State Department had received advices which indicated a general A later in the day it was announced that the President was about to proclaim the neutrality of the United States in that conflict and to freeze Greek credits in this country. The conversations with Secretary Hull and other members of his Cabinet in Washington delayed him an hour and a half in Newark. But it didn’t prevent him from taking several brief speeches in New Jersey, a after which he crossed the bay to Brooklyn on a spec a special ferry boat guarded by speed boats oi tne Navy's mosquito flotilla, as well as Coast Guard vessels and police launches. At Brooklyn, he officially and formally started the POLITICS - 2 breaking of ground for the vehicular tunnel rnin)i twiw in Tii| 1 rthe lower end of Manhattan to Brooklyn, Governor Lehman of New "ork was with him and he was introduced by Mayor T if... Ill if UlliB Till f 11 Jl Later in the day, he visited Fordham University, LaGuardia Airport, Hunter College, and tonight tm is to speak at Madison Square Garden. In one of his speeches he brought out the horse and buggy allusion once morey told an audience at Hunter College that he does not believe the country wants to go back to horse and buggy days. His only reference to his opponent was an acid remark about at those Is who, as he put it, "promise Utopia^ftw the millenium." Meanwhile, Wendell Willkie was on his way to Louisville, It had been reported that his throat specialist had imposed silence upon him, ordered him not to speak for a couple of days* But evidently that was exaggerated, for he is definitely going to speak at half past nine tonight, Eastern Standard Time, at Louisville, and his address will be broadcast. On his way to M/o1 - ^ —— Kentucky, Willkie i A criticiziaar ***** a A A statement made by Secretary Hull to the National Pi ess Club. He said the POLITICS - 3 Secretary’s discussion of foreign affairs on Saturday night was an extraordinary documentation of New Deal futility. And he added that it brings out clearly the serious failure of the New Deal to organize a national economy capable of building a rapid defense rapidly. It makes the whole tragedy xii of wrorld conditions and our present precarious position more than ever apparent. The only solution of this crisis, said the Republican candidate, is the defeat of the third term candidate. The dhief of the colored division of the Republican National Coimnittee made an interesting announcement today about / \Joe Louis, heavyweight boxing champion.of the world~^<s£5£^23 going to take the stump for Wendell Willkie, at least six times this week He’ll speak in Philadelphia, his own town Detroit, St.Louis, New y0rk, Cleveland, Chicago and Baltimore. Other tycoons of the boxing world are also going in for.' the campaign in a big way. Ex-Champion Jack Dempsey is working for President Roosevelt; and his conqueror, retired champion Gene Tunney, is for Willkie. Another football scandal abrewing, mayhapl And the target once more is Carl Snavely, coach of the victorious big Cornell team. Last week. Harvard took a crack at Coach Snavely. Today the sporting news is full of an accusation even more sensational. Made by the Athletic Director of Ohio State University, whose team took a twenty-one to seven licking from Snavely* s Big Red team last Saturday. Athletic Director St. John of Ohio State bluntly makes the charge that Coach Snavely signalled to his team from the bench. That at Ithaca last Saturday Coach Snavely transmitted FOOTBALL - 2 signals by means of a white- t ^ „ 6 nll;e cylinder, held in different position. Sitting next to Elector St.John on the Ohio State bench was IflA Dr^tfaxwell, who once was himself a football official. And Dr. Maxwell agreed with Director St. Jghn that Snavely was conveying signals. In fact, as the game progressed, Director St.John and Dr. Maxwell were themselves able to foretell the next play that the Cornexi team was about to make. Director St-John says furthermore that after the game he secured confidential admissions. /I does not say from whom. This accusation was written in a letter to the Executive Director of the Eastern Intercollegiate Athletic Association, The Ohio State Director is not asking for any redress. The game is v -t£* over, he declares, and was won by the better team. -t(U ^ CU ^