usENHC#fER llbli'1 ~. . -U - 4-....J / Presid ~( fi'is h //"< .,,,,---, sen ow r answers Khruschchev. T h President, r ferring to th e speech the Soviet leader made - in which he ~~- accused~ isenhower and Secretary of State Dulles of "Crude interference", because they pledged our t suppor to captive peoples behind the Iron Qirtain. Khrushchev charged that Mr. Eisenhower's Christmas message violated the "Geneva spirit." Tonight we have the President's reply. A formal statement, issued to newsmen by Press Secretary, James Hagerty. The statement notes that during the meeting of the heads of government at Geneva - Mr. Eisenhower made it clear that we still wanted liberty and justice for all nations. In his opening ?"'4' . . statement at the conference Ms:-. Eisenhower explicitly declared A that it's a fundamental right for people to choose t~ir own ; - - - - - - - - - - - government. And he went on to say at that time - that Americans - - know that free lections have not been permitted in Comnunist countries. • In other t?k/7 d ht said at G neve was wor s, w a A exactly what h repeated In his C h ri s tmas message and todays usENHartER - 2 Whj t e H ous e declaration ends with th e s words - "Th e peac ful liberation o f th captiv peoples has been - and until success is achi v d, will continue to be - a major goal of United S tates for e ign policy.~ ~ e A h e w e r . ,oef~ieA -k- 1ttNly w h ~ ~ interference" what he means is that he doesn't want any talk ~ ~ ~ I I S S - ~ . about liberty or free electionf- " 4 . t h i ~ - & . ~ ~ 1 t ~ , In dia n a R e pu b lican s have agr ee d to giv e tht s tate•s s uppor t t o._!' r s id e nt Eis e nhow e r at the conv~nti~1 ~ext year. Gov e rnor ~ ~ "'·~g~~~--~-.--~ ~ ~ A h e intends to campaign fo r Mr. Eisenhower's re-election. The Governor,aiot' •-.:J circulate a petition - for five hundred signatures nee/fto ~;.... . ~ . ~ .._, plac e th e Pr e sident's name on the~rimary ballot,in M a y . - ~ W ?"°11. unless._ Eisenhower ~ as k s him not to. Today G. o. P. leoders in Indiana rallied behind the °"""' dt aA4- Governor - they all want Mp:; Eisenhower tuz S secon erm, ,A. OUr State Department 5 t uppor s the three-point peace program of th e Pope!- 'HM Pentiff 1aill..,..at there wete th1ee---11ec . . ri~s f•• pi C. eRt-iAt ... ~ • .i.,,.. ~ b i + ""A, ann nj\nuclear tests, renouncing ~ atomic weapons, and~r■aaents control system. Secretary of State Dulles has not officially endorsed the Pope's three point_!, ~.7 t.!l!y ~e being broadcast by the Voice ~ ,, ,, of Merica, whic~eflecM State Department policy. The Voice, adding that the plan is being diatorted behind th Iron curtain - the Kremlin, playing up the point about I ban on nuclear te1t1, but saying nothing about any inspection 1y1tem. Support for the Papal prograa alao coaes from an Indian diplomat. Krishna Menon, saying that the three points are in complete agreement with this country's position. Noting that India was called a friend of CofflD.lni&m for attacking atomic experi■ents, Krishna Menon remarked, "I wonder if anyone will say that the Pope is eo-,nist - because of what he said." IEST BERLIN The East German Reds have given up their attempt to blockade West B e rlin - at l e ast for the moaaent. They'--~ agreed to honor old peraits for barges carrying supplies into the city. Which ends a threat - that the Caaunists would refuse to continue recognition of the permits after January first. - The point was, that the Reda , had d•anded direct talks with West Germany - talk• about the entire Berlin situation. • The Pre;er of East G e r m ~ t ~ : i t k , t ~ i, Russia} and Conrnunist lands of th F I\ e ar East. et te"-Gratewo"M\ '{iytng in from Moscow.,..:.~e told a crowd at the airport( K l.act ruond ~ e ~ree •••IMt t.h.-thr - .... Mf'li¥.e Me dee-u~ ~ East Germany c_•_n _ d _ e - pe _ n _ d _ t - h I / ' ~ on e friendship of Rei Cllina, / ' A~a~ c011plete agreement~ ~ oign.,./ lhrt • - • • • - • 11Utuol cooperoUon poet ) f ~ ~-~ • lleeia.wrr •• ---•P"~trade ,between the two ccnmuni1t states. Go~~~ North Korea - _ . he says he w11 appalled by wh the termed - "lbe barbaric de1truction caused by repeated the old Red Chin••• line about Forao•• - claindng that~ ~ alYright for Mau Tse Tung to conquer t~islan'; ~ d / t h a t ~ will. • ~ ..,,.,%:;;..._ ~'-y-d-_-l_ ~ On Formosa,._..e? expecting• C ~ 1 ~ "' /\ onnun st invasion of Quemoy and Matsu, anytime now. Th , is, as the shelling of those islands continues through th.1ourth d ay. Mau Tse Tung, lining up his big guns near the mainland port of leoy _ hurling 1 te~i.k barrage across five miles f ~ t ,_.p o wa er. /\seven •-tlo.~lu.-.ag -.ir■._..~ ~ ~ • hundred~ Nationalist betteries returned the fire - and the artillery duel is becoatng so tense, that Oliang Kai Shek sent his ;z ■ilit•ry leaders on •n in1pection tour of Qu-y, ~iu..y, -~-~~ 1nv•lion b p r o b • b l ; i ~ : ~ " "'the••......,~ there are reports of Russian Naval units, moving down the Fort1011 Strait, into South O\inL waters • .,( Nationalist pilots tell us• big concentration of landing craft along the coast. Which points up what Oliang Kaj Shek said in -t,I.J- his Olristmas messag~,( the struggle between the two Olinas is entering the showdown stage, begiMing with Quemoy and Matsu. () ~~ But oar Secretary of the Army o e ~ believe~ invation ,A is near, Secretary B r u e ~ • tour of the Far Eas;,"M<eflil1i- / A The land of the elephant want& help against the Chine1e dragon. l+. 6 t 's ~ " ! .. liAAC'Ce"e-...,'Ofi,t--, .... 1srtn:l!vrrI"'ly-Tf'i!"ICH1l'lffl"i "1~laa.t-m,11111,ttt~1-■--__...-~ accepting American aid before c.nbodia find herself di . •raed ~ ~ ~ i n - 1 1 e t g h . b 1 r 9 ' = .A . ~ , .... --Nfe~IAle . . . • lndoaehinese Qumuaniet:a, • • ■11 ~••h•• 11t, -Rea eti!na. ~ Prince Sihanou~h•s leis than forty ' thouaand ■en to guard ~ a rugged frontie~ Alt said today that the number would have to be cut - unless aid ca•• fr• soaewhere. There are only two places that would give such aid - Ru11iai . 1nd Aaeric~ And -4 , 4 ~ Cambodia prefers to get it from Merica. • gUIMOY - 2 peys "There v r n't anythtn~ I ~av - to indicate a final showdown attack in the fore~eeable future" So who is rt,b~ In Malaya, it's all t -ou war against the Conwnunist rebels. That's what Minjster Abdul Rahman told th ~ tl\..0_ e people of t h e ~ peninsula in a radio broadcast today. Th e minister, speaking of th breakdown of talks with the guerillas. ~ - ~ ~ ~ e a d e r de,n1n~ the recognition of the Colllnunist Party; which was illDediately rejected by the government. AALP Today Minister Rahaan said there 1 no hope now for a A peaceful settlement. 4~• - I d 1N> no-4arllwr ,eaee,uel~l:elllaa~.• llr"'H~ there would be no further negotiations with the Reds. He w1mff;/:h •ont more guerilla attacks - neak 11sassin~tion1 and the burning of rubber plantations. And therefofe, the government of Malaya will return to the policy of hunting out the Coaaunists in a full-scale campaign. That French cam ram d 1 an en es he bribed a gendarme to shoot down a suspect d Algerian rebel - just for the sake of a newsr el film. Georges O\assagne (sh1-S:;1n-y1) saying that Paris officials got the thing all wrong. He claia& he never even heard of th accusation - until he read it in an Algiers newspaper. \ I . Chassagn~his / /\ version of what heppened at a new~ confer nee toda~ 11112 said he was one of I group of 1MW1men who were invited to visit an Arab village on November 1-enty- first. Moslem fanatics had massacred twenty Europeans only - the day before - and the situation was..._. tenae, with gendarmes mopping up the area. According to 0\11s1gne, he - w a s " ~ shooting pictures when . he heard one French policeaan order a suspected rebel to go ••Y• As the man left, the gendarme shot him - and that was the picture th9t ca11er1Un thassagne recorded. The ca~•n told his news . conference that he never h didn't know that a picture was talked to the gendarme - w o CAM£RMAN - 2 being made. Said 0\ ssagne, "The g e ndarmes were far too busy and excited - ~ to take any notice of us." ...A4,#-:_;,:e__-§4-" The new Commandant of the Marine Corps - start d his milita r y l car r as a private .!_n t~ ~Y• General Randolph Pate joined up in nineteen ighteen - just another recruit in the ranks. Then h went to V.M.I. and was ccnaissioned a second lieutenant in the Marin Corps. From then on his career was brilliant - including a Dlatinguished Service Cross and two Legion& of Merit. During World War Two, he helped plan key operations - Guadalcanal, lwo Jima, Okinawa, and others. Later he became Chief of Staff of the Marine Corps. Now Randolph Pate reaches the top - C:O.andan~ and soon to be • four-star general. 0 pOPULATICJ4 EXPLOSICJ4 La st spring, in Florida, I got into a discussion with an e min e nt clergyman, Dr. Rebert E. Gribben, now at Winston-Salem, No r th Carolina. We w er e talking about the population of the wo r ld. how rapidly it is increasing. I was wondering how ■any m n and women wer e on this planet, say at the time of C ,: ist, two thousand years ago. Evidently this has been on Dr. Gribben•s mind ev e r since. Now, through David Dietz, Sci'ence E ditor for Scripps-Howard, he has come up with the word, that around six thousand years ago, there were o ly o n~ million people on this earth. Leas than a tenth as many as ther e are in New York City today. Less than there ar e in the ar a around San Francisco Bay. Four thousand years later at th Birth of Christ, it had jumped from one million to two hundred and seventy-five million. Aft e r tha t the population of•the world seems to have stood still for a : ,ut seven hundred years. Th e n start e d to g r ow slowly, until the year sixteen fifty, one hundred and forty years after the discovery of America. when the r e were four hundred and seventy- five million people on earth. I f()PULATION XPLOSia-J - 2 Th n came what is referred to as the population explosion. And today th earth has a population of w I.Wi i tlllf! : billion! We are told th re will be fRY1. billipQ by the Year Two Thousand, and that a hundred years from now, six to eight billion. ' Unless the H-bomb wipe& out most of us! ,.aARTIC. A dispatc h from the Antartic mentions a n•e fa110us in the history of S ou t h Polar exploration_ Sir Ernest Shackleton. In _!.in ete n f o u r " t i f n " ~ e d _ ~C-\.f ,A:_ I\ •n expedition into the Weddell S ea •~this ship, the "Endurance" h ~ r was crua ed in the ice " /j_ ~ • ~-_,, ~ Cfe.'c.. ~ ta...,/ fo1 tu1.wtal~ Shackleton and his er~ ■anaged t a,I~ . A o escape overland - ~ ·th ship went down. Todays dispatch).., fr011 the. Weddell Se~ ti tells of the present B ritish Antarctic expeditiDn - the ship "Theron" caught in the ice, juot a& the "Encluran~•• •••-~!~ ~ \ ~ ~-dl/\,- ;\ ~o inm e diate danger~6• tu•~ bllt the Britiah expedition 11 be ing held up. And ther •s another celebrated name in the dispatch - a un who became famous more recently than Sir'e'tnw-t Shackleton. Sir Edmund Hillary - of"'l:erest Fame. : He's aboard the "Theron; a1 A an obs e rv e r. Tonight the conqueror of E~~rest is waiting wi t h the rest of t h e crew - waiting for an tee break e r to come in and clear a path for them through the Weddell S e a , ~ at the bottom of th e world.