DEFE SE C.1 - i J:h Co ess, I\ scene~- Defens e c r t a r y Jame Forr e tal t nt befor th nate Ar ed e rv i c e C ommittee with a n u rgent appeal for the Nineteen to enty-Five Dr af t Law and an extra three billion dollars for our armed forces. This to convinc~ Russia - before it is too late - that Uncle Sam will fight to halt aggression. Our Defense Secretary was escorted by the biggest array of military leaders assembled before Congress ince World War Two. An impressive sight, ~ our top militar~ . . . . . . • - - - assembled to support Forrestal as he submitted his "cold war" program. This program aimed to raise our fighting strength by almost three hundred and fifty thousand officers and men;~ 1:i - ~ ~/"IC;" provide three thousand of the latest type warplanesAin e "' ~ twelve months begiMing July F.irst. J ti■ ■w t1111; additional millions of dollars for the development of new weapons and general military research. In~J.l.evel tones, #aFForrestal gave the J:- I'- DEFEN E 2 en tors em pha ti c as ranc th a t Rus.ia ri b ht o h a s nei ther the knowl edg e , no r h as she the bomb~~=a lh e f r t time ca a cit, to make a n atomic ov e rnment offi cer has mad 1f such a c ateg oricst- stat e ment on this vital subject. B ut Forrestal added a caution. H e warned t hat the a tomic bomb alone w ould not necessarily turn the ti de of war, if war should ~ come. He went on to say that possession of the atomH bomb had undoubted power to dissuade from aggressio . n any nation that might believe Uncle Sam has not sufficient military strength ~ --r to putt~ :.sap~ to effective use. To drive home his point, Forrestal compared the aggressions of Hitler and those ~ Mdoil4'ok!e~---iGrri-et-PNnrM~eeefl\ Stalin since World War Two. He reminded the Senators, with grim insistence, that the last war might have been averted if Nazi Gennany had been made to realize in time that the United States would fight~ "It 1s my belief," s aid he, "that if we make it p lain a nd clear that the United States will not tolerate the destruction of the western Civ~lization of Europe, we shall have p eace - peace because for once n orl history an ag g ressor 111 be forewarned of our etermination , backed up by our stre th. ~ 1ght1 ,< word . by our De fense e retary, ~ .J ~ - in the interest of world peace. Forrestal •s p rogram c a lls for the draft of non-veterans between nineteen and twenty-fiv e , to raise our effective fighting manpower to one million, seven hundred ~ and thirty-four thousand. l,iniversal military training Ila as ' ~ a long term plan to build up civilian reservv~ three billion dollars """J!1Hh anli.-.ai:i.tMot,w,~?'44;,. 40 1)Qf t:er •M military expansion. D A T ----- -- - NIGHT OW rch 5th 1948 oon VENING VERYBODY: Scienc e students to be deferred under the _ i i J _ ~ ~ ne draft1 for non-veterans;f:f:cRn ninete e n to twenty-five. I\. So ••Js C airman Chan Gurney oft e Sena t e Armed ~~~~ 41~ Services Committe~"in Washinton tonight, after ~-tt...t .£._ommittee~ day u.l bearing our top ranking military w-f:.c~ A_ experts~•k• a series of urgent appeals for a draft I-- law -- now. ;(t. draft/ extra three billion dollars for our armed ~~ . forces. ~ t o convince Russia - before A too late - that Uncle Saa will fight to halt aggression. Of particular interest is lai9■ Z Chairman Gurney's statement that science students will be deferred, as wel ~ as theological and medical students,~arried aen, and those wit~ dependents. We frequently hear that aai■atia properly trained scientists are becoming more and more DRAFT 2 ~. ..-.. ~ ' essential to mod rn},,-ailitazy ef f ot<t. Also, •~hear~ ~ e haven't enou g h youn scientiets,co■jag a le a 1k, t- ~ ..,-~ many~r fted in World War II., their talents wasted, ~ and1 tbeir~rosi•~ delayed. Thi tiae, we are taking no chances - science students to continue their ~ training. - -t4ll-~e-y e pc •t1--alif iea te ee lp ia th• ~ ••• effert, o~ ee8rse if we 11\e•e te ■ a11:e ev.oa •• ' ,,. V C try u 1 i · . 11 d hi chi 7 -- -J to he witne st nd. n the evidenc he e eeme to tartle t e ~ nator; a the oth r ilit ry itne ses, ~ - - • , ecretary for Air y m in gt on , and fJ w no 11 a 1 Sp a a 1 ~ Air ~- Force Chie~ ~ alone knowing what~Sullivan was about to disclose. 0 Recently, said the Navy Secretary, submarine~ not belonginP, to any nation st of the Iron Curtain, have been sighted off our shores. The eff~ct ■ t of that st tement on the S . n te· Committee was stunning. 'hen they a ked for further details, the Navy Secretary said he would sup ly that in secret session, give t~• times and places, and by whom the submarines ere sighted. But not, said he, at a public hearing. The Navy . Secret~ry added that he as not prepared to discuss the significance of this. "But," he ent on, "we all recall that an early tep of the Ger ans in Nineteen r,l u o t - On 0 lo m r nes off OU nt on to th t Rus i a no h a two hund , ·n f f · in r a r ft in o eration, nd he ompar t t fle t of ~~o hundred an fifty submarines with the Nazi unders ea navy of les than fifty U-boats a t the op ning of orld iar T'io. "And yet," he s 1 dramatically, "the Germans nearly on th e , ... attle of the Atlantic." lk., S-..illivan ~ ~ t h e Senators that Russia "- \ obtained ten new German s ubmarines, four of them of the S8Z!f latest designJ that she controls four German shipyards which producmU-boats for Hitler and has an abW1dant supply of German blueprints, spare parts, designers, engineers and technicians. A full hand for the deadly game of undersea warfare. . ~ ~ ·-'d-;-J IR reply to a question, S a l ~ that the iL .. 1 # " United States has not developed~ counter-measures against '1 114 ~-~ latest type 1ubm1rine&.i'and he added that present researc~ I\ ,,, indicates a com lete solution to the submarine menace will be most difficult. F OLLO t r n ~ h e a ft e rno on th e av pa r men t announc d th t thr fo s r n es a v bee n o erat ng o ff the e st coat in Janu a ry . O n, ident fi ed by th e Na v y , sim ly as "n ot ours" , was si gh te d b a m e rchant vessel two hundred m les off Sn F ran ci sco ab o u t a month ag o . Another unide ti ied U-bo a t ~eer-ee near the A leuti a ns, a third off Jl Palmy e a , eight hundred miles from earl Harbor . I\. A ... T IE (r e 1 ri e) ite House ress Confer e nce to y, resident Truman d eni e d t t t e nite States as abandoned the partition idea for the Hoy · a nd in favor of a 1111111 X trsuteeship by the United ations. Thi trusteeship, ■ a;,a tbe Praaide1117 1 repre:;:;;; an effort to fill a ••• u vacuum which will)-e oause4 ~,,-the British withdrawal on llay F _ ... teen th) ~~~ indirectly blamed ~America' sudden PALESTI - 2 s itc h from artiti on to trust es h i p o n the B riti sh e c isi on to quit le stine on ay Fifteenth in te ad of u g ust Fi ft ee nth. He s ai that he did not lmow why the British did th is, but, s said he, the Bri tish eparture from the H oy Land meant there ~ be no , · au th o ri ~y ,t ; the British forces withdraw. ~ could only mean violence a nd bloodship, 'Ihe President then called for a truce between the fighting eseh eeher aa ~ p~ude te a. kH eesle wsp-, This truce, he said, must be reached if we are to avert t r a g e d y ~ . and he insisted that such a truce is a practical possibility,~~ ~ - ~ ~eaceful s e t t l e m e n ~ fr~ the truce, 1!!1'19 t h o ~ A A ' l,{.vt. 41Jrusteeshi p .~'1-ffo. He then re~ealed that he has instructed arren n ustin, the American delegate to . the U.N., to request the e curity Council ~ to summon Of the Jews and A rabs to the council table. re p resent a tives on the matter of ttia trusteeshi p , the p residential A._ I - - · t t ment • 'Th u t a , s s r p ed to e n V app ro a t e as n e e to th Un t e t o ns p ntin blo d i r h in a c f 1 ett le t. I Th s , sa id Mr. T . tl not ne ssarily nvolv th s of American I troops . But , h a dded, if the U . N . d c ides to impo e ts tru t sh on th Hol L nd , erica will have t take her hare of th necessary responsibility. R on r to the pres~dential statemen. /1 Congre sm an rth r ~ lein o f e w Y r k ~ ~r. Truman /J had not ex l ain ed why he r versed p n a tor James Murray of o ntana b r a n ed h a t he c a ll ed "the a dminist rat ions • wea k a nd v a ill ati n olicy" a s a surrender to ab ag g ression. ~ In C ' iro, the Grand Mufti, the mi litant A ra leader, passionat e ly rejected any form o f · trustee sh1p th e Grand Mufti m a kil:r,; it cle * t the Arab ~ for Pa lestine, states would o pp ose the Americ n pro p o s 1 a s ~i orously as the Jews~ ~,~~-k. - - ~ In New Y rk, Dr . Chaim ~e izmann, the elder statesman of the Z ionist m ovement, and former President of the Jewish Agency in Palestine, threw his su pp ort behind the Jewish Age nc y 's intention to ignore the American abandonment of the partition p l a n. W eizmann accused the United States of encoura g in g th e A rabs by scuttling the pa rtition p rogram, and ~ c a sti ated the Bri tish for allowing A rab troo p s to cross ~ c;.J2{2_~ freely in to Pal stine t o ~ for war, at-:lielsuP~. }- A ~ hortly af t er !It. Trum a n~ st· tement, Secreta " Y of r-- ~1, at e 6'19¥ arsn · 1, at h i n ws confer nee , vi orousl efende t h e re de nt's cont entio n th t the Un t d tates • h Ps not a a ndoned par tit o n. arsha ll a s bombarded 11th "'- ueations , ut he refused t o nawer a n y ~ .a:l-l~gat!OR that the United States h s been seeking to avoid any arr· emen t for Pa l e stine which might involve the use of oviet tr o ops in a n nternational police forc e in that strategic area. The trusteeship plan advocated by Mr. Truman ~ ..., this, because the Soviet has scrupulously boycotted the U.N. Trusteeship Council ever since its inception. Which might be held to be an error of · judgment 1 at Lake Success.- the Soviet thus having ~~ participation in any form of trusteeship. A 1n Russian strategy 4...£.~, barred ituel_x from Pre ident .fi!tnn = . ounct t ;n . a t h s n w co nf rence tod Y tot· lk olit c - mo tl in ns r to q u st o ns by ,.._ • th ; P resi de n t ~ firm ly, i nten ds to o ah ea d Pi th h is p lans to s e k the Democ r at ic residenti a l nomin a t ion . C ertainl y , h h a s no intention of quitting th e r c e beca us e of at t a cks o n him b y rebellious Democrats . The pa rt y revolt, he told his rel e ntless questioners , does not disturb him one little bit. As f or the Southern re v olt, Ht, not even thHt shakes hi• deteRHlnat:ta. A Mr . Truman said that he preferred t o wait until November1 to g iv e the Democrats wh o have strayed 1 a chance to come back to the fol. And spe a king 1n a p rophetic tone, he said thav his party will be victorious in the fall elections. Nothing , the ne w smen gathered , in the present political situation, ettebl4.t,g-w1Ul Q.Atas,Hiiom -an4- l"ttfflW 8fld Sf}ieea ri6h -the neirel~ T h ~ ~ ti:::&::::1)fm!Ct:~~~dMitfl disturb Ha1°r9 S. frumea A ~ , So ~ . • h ich le d on e ne w smen to ask the ch ief execu ti ve /3E whether he w ould rather b e ri g ht thanA p resident. A t which Mr. Truman p referred to lau gh rather th an to a nswer. FINNS. ------ Moscow Word from Ma& ■• toni ht is that the Finnish A ~ delegates are all set to begin negotiation with on the proposed mutual-aid trP.aty bet een the two countries. The preliminary wining and ining is over, courtesty calls have beea exchanged •according to strict protocol• says this Moscow dispatch. Now ittaxskax comes the hard business - Finnish representatives aj,uin with their powerful I t n Y, t t k a been ut roject X a huh - huh · roj ct out ic h everyone e to k no . nd hich the ender ent of the , e Ad ini t r ati o n' to di 1 tic and ilitary o f ici ls. I Project X a m • · • 1 .._ ! _ ,... .... I.I.I, - il 1 i o n 11 r Am ricah program finance anti-Communist un d er round forces, behind the Iron Curtain? That eems to be it. The idea being that we should do something ractical and effective to hel our friends in Red territory, any who are illing to fi ht for their freedom. Project X -- a gigantic undetground organization edicated to liberty and ju tice, financed by America. This undergroun1~ork on lines somewhat similar to our wartime Office of Str tegic Services, which proved itself the equal of the finest secret service agencies of enemy and allied n·:t i ns. to - - - - - - - - - - - ~ rou-n hiil t ~ I,.r n Gu r in fl t.o un rm ia-e v ·et ha-ve oo-n - e ~ cor in t • 0 "e 11- i 01• . me c ir e 1 e a l w ya r e o ro vi e in o i n hen 11 -fo un d ed rumor com s ut into th e o en, Project X i l be financed by on re si n a l r riationa no e rm rked for s ecific urpo e . Jut a the e e t ato bo mb p roject as fin need d urin the ar. Proj e ct-X to be un er · the direction of ecret ry of State M rs h all, ho will be ree to use the fund R for such p urpo es as supplyin 0 non-Co m onist p olitical p arties vd. th n e s rint, for u derground ublications, short ave radios, and, in certain cases, rms a nd a uniti n. All thi s ai ed as a ositive step to •ks check Red political aggre sin nd consolidate the benefits One le Sam e ·p e ct s to re p under the r hall • Pl an . e t u e th e ~ame. ap o as the enemy in the pres nt col r; the i htin e in the a- cal l e d "t ili ht zone" where Com m uni s m , ak e its g re a te t ins. In in, r nco' l i eral i e arliament is buy a sing ne 1 s. ne mea s ure ap rove today re tores the title of no ility, who lost them under the S a nish Republic. An o ther prohibits the manufacture of toy guns th t look l ik r ea l o es. So, the nobles get back their titles in ain. And the day of the S . anish Don -- hasn't gone! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - F o Jap n, ~ - r h1 g n o f cherr b l os s o m .- nd 1 gend, a st r w 1i c h ill u trate ho d mocracy I march kick1n over a f w ancient ~ traditi o ns. J n no ha a 1 bo law, hich deer es n a e iD limit for r tir ment - ~ of -the g ish a irls. Thes graceful willo ntertainers, who serve yo .t=tft tea and • ~ make thin g s leasant with music and dancing, tlP9 subject to o?t,~ A compulsory retirement. A=d thl1 is bad news for Kura Nagoaka, \ Kura has been a geisha girl for seventy years, entertaining in the smart restaurants of Tokyo, the friend and confidante of the rich and famous, a celebrity in the genteel tea shop life of the capital. The most famous geisha 1n Japan - and, the oldest. Kura is eighty. And with the new idea sweeping Japan, she is now considered too old for a worker on a job, even for a profeseional hostess. And so she has to retire, and the habitue of the tea shop will be deprived of the channs of the oldest geisha in the world. Tonight she is probably GEISHA GIRL - 2 sin g ing her plaintive the jasmine tea cups~-too old at eighty. ~~~~~-~~.