SPAIN L j 2j__^UNGCQ Tn^rlay. Qct. g7t 1 Portugal takes the lead. But then Portugal has been taking the lead all along In sympathizing with the Spanish Fascists. Germany and Italy have been reported ready to recognize General Franco as the ruler of Spain, as soon as he has conquered Madrid. Portugal doesn't wait that long. Some days ago Lisbon broke off diplomatic relations with the Madrid Government — and now It's recognition for General Franco's regime. This is announced In London, with the detail that a Portuguese courier carried the notice of recognition to the Fascist commander at Talavera. Germany and Italy are expected to come next, although it is reported that several ^atin countries are ready to extend their recognition at any moment. So here's another worry added to the anxieties of London, where the committee for Non-Intervention in Spain is meeting. Already Non-Intervention is in a hopeless mess. The tangle is worse than ever now — with this recognition of General Franco as the legal ruler, which would seem to put the Madrid Govern­ ment in the class of rebels. And on top of that Portugal threatens to withdraw from the non-intervention business altogether. SPAIN -2 Reports today give the Spanish civil War a more savage aspect, savage as it has seemed all along. (Deserters 1 from the Left Wing ranks tell that there have been thirty o thousand executions in Madrid, that great host of people of the upper and middle class shot by Red firing squads. J American newspaper men from .the Left Wing side^ have been captured by the Nationalists — and they now tell an uncensored story of desperate conditions in Madrid, Star­ vation facing the city, morale at low ebb, the huge masses of raw recruits running away in a panic from the death-spitting fire of tanks, artillery, machine guns, and war planes# Today once more we hear of those untrained, half— armed thousands thrown against the mechanized death of modern war# The Nationalists pressing closer everywhere. The last Madrid railroad line cut, the city virtually isolated — the Madrid chiefs oennaiTdei^a desperate counter-attack. The reports tell of a wild rush of the hosts of Left Wing fighters, coming in waves. urtappaae-daybreak - -Kfeto^the Nationalists by surprise. They were astounded. Th SPAIN -3 Left Wingers rushed them savagely, and there was fierce hand-to hend fighting — until^ the tanks, artillery and war planes got Into action. *hose small, swift tanks of steel seem to be invincible against raw human flesh » and why wouldn*t they be* The last reports indicate that the mass counter attack has been beaten off* Meanferwile General Franco’s planes continue^to bomb A and machine gun Madrid^ ThwyAjt^ concentrating on the flying field, intending apparently to put the quietus on Left Wing aviation* U Here in America there’s a lively acho from the Span ish Civil War today — in the campaign of a committee from Madrid to collect funds over here for the help of the Spanish Left Wingers. They tried at first in Canada, Montreal, but were virtually chased out by angry, students. Last night at a mass meeting in New York they collected fifteen thousand dol- lars* ) Today there’s a lively turn of controversy about one member of that committee, a catholic priest, SPAIN -4 Franciscan Order. Or is he? That's what the controversy is about. The Reverend iSuis Sarasola has been telling America that the Madrid government is not red, and not against the Catholic Church. This provoked the reply that he is a priest no longer, but an apostate. The Reverend Sarasola responded by showing an invitation he had received to call at any house of the Franciscan Order, any place where he might happen to be. He said that proved he was in good standing as ax Franciscan. The reply of Catholic authorities is -- that he has indeed an invitation. They point out that according to the Franciscan rule when a member is declared an apostate, h^ is sent such an invitation to call at any Franciscan house be toid that he has been proclaimed an apostate. They tell the story further of a group of Franciscans made prisoners by the Spanish- reds. They were all executed by a firing s^uad - except two. One of these was an American. A&^was released because of his American citizenship. The A i „ '-phRv claim that he was spared other was the Reverend Sarasola. They claim ^ use him as a red propagandist, by the reds, because they could SPAIN -5 vj . /? p Sueii^ls the ecclesiastical broadoa^ whicli ^ the nation-wide raising of funds over here to help Left ¥ing Madrid POLITICS R There are repercussions today to Father Coughlin-s speech last night denouncing the W.P.A.. as a scab ar^ and Franklin D. Roosevelt as a scab president. We hear that this has attracted the attention of the Vatican and that Home once more disapproves of the political utterances of the Radio Priest, let it is said that the Vatican feels it cannot act - not right now. With the campaign nearing it^s close, any move made by Rome K i in the case of Father Coughlin would seem like meddling in American nolitics. And the Catholic Church is exceedingly / A reluctant to risk creating any such impression. So all questions concerning the Radio Priest will r-est - until after the election, O Pennsylvania once more comes* to the front in the presidential battle • President Roosevelt will-make a non-political speech in New York tomorrow at the Fiftieth- Anniversary of the Statue of Liberty. Then he'll make a political speaking tour of Delaware, New Jersey — and^Pennsylvania. _______ _ Governor Landon tonight is in Pittsburgh. Both he and p/cfoh^nt RooseveltaliCady delivered major political broadsides A A POLITICS - 2 in the "City of Steel". Ba*The Landon indicates the importance of Pittsburgh steel to the Kansas Sunflower ."Because^ the political wise men have doped it out that as Pittsbi^gh goes, so goes Pennsylvania^ <X^A >^cwi IK, < C V”** Today witnessed one on °± the most singular cases of law record. Not that it was a long onp it as oae^ lasted a mere few minutes It's seldom th .t a court trial has been surrounded by so much secrecy, censorship, wonderment, inference, and gossip. And no a WQ l S wonder, because this case at law ^-styled technically - W.W.Simpsoja versus Ernest A. Si^pson^J) The secrecy has been profound - on the other side of the water, I mean. The British newspapers have printed scarcely a word about it* The town of Ipswich, where.it was tried, had only the least inkling of the home town trial that was famous around the world. At the last minute, the public was excluded from the court proceedings - ffew except newspaper men got in. tK&z "tts. Mrs. Simpson, aided by vigilant police, entered by a back door. Some of the reporters noticed that she arrived in her black car. It has been observed that King Edward, not so lone ago, bought two black cars, of which he Himself has one. They took note , n n/-ivfpT*‘o which recalled the story that in the car Mrs. Simpson had flowers, TvSi . . her daily, the choicest that King Edward- has flowers delivered to her oar . , A of roses. SIMPSON - £ The trial was heard with all British formality by Mr. Justice^Anthony Hawke. The evidence was brief. First a letter, which Mrs. Simpson had found, a letter to Mr. Simpson - and in a woman's handwriting. Mr. Justice, Sir Anthony Hawke, didn't think so much of that. But the evidence continued with two witnesses — and then the divorce was pronounced* took just twenty minutes — and, Wally Qirapson and Ernest A. Simpson were severed in twain. ^ Something of a speed record in a case that has also set records in gossip and innuendo. At the same time today, >the Royal Privy Council met, convened by His Majesty, Edward the Eighth. It had been noted that if the Sing intends to marry, the traditional form is for him to announce this to the Privy Council* However, there was no such announcement today. It .was merely a routine proceeding, a discussion of what the King will say in his address at the opening of Parliament and of plans for the coronation next year. The rumor has been that the fascinating American, Mrs. Simpson, ' will be at the opening of Parliament, sitting in the gallery reserved for distinguished visitors. As for the coronation. SIMPSON - 5 there1 s no news^)save that Americans will be there in numbers without pi ecede it. Already agencies over here are selling reserved seats adjoining Westminster Abbey.-^dne advertisement ^ announcwS^that a British lady of title offers to anAraerican A coronation-goer her country seat-, and the use of servants for one month, and four first-rate seats on the direct route of the royal parade - all for a thousand pounds sterling, about thousand dollars. But now let's suppose -- PRINCE Suppose that in ail this eurlous news from England} were no King Edward at all . but Klng ^ ^ ({r> ^ A Simpson - you can't imagine that. There has been mention of a possible Queen Wally, but no suggestion of that particular King Ernest. The supposition is,what If the British Empire were j£. ruled by iving arnstj August, Christian, George? He*s now r deposed German princeling. But he might be King of England - if it hadnft been for a twist of law, a century ago. This reminder comes in a large political headline from ji Europe. It is reported that Hitler is planning to make Ernst, August, Christian, George, not King of England, but Emperor of Germany. The story emanates from Paris, and declares that the Nazi chief wants to restore the monarchy. But he doesnft want to put the Hohenzollerns back on the throne, because they might be hard to handle - they're the old legitimate line. Neither does he want to give the crown to Germany's Humber Two royal family, the Wittdlsbaehs of Bavaria. That's because they're Catholic. So he has selected the Brunswicfc-Lunebourg clan, in the person married the of Prince Ernst, August, Christian, George PRINCE - 2 daughter of the Ex-Kaiser# gives him a sort of tie to the Hohenzollern line. royal gentleman Is the the hereditary Duke of Brunswick but in the list of his titles we find two others - Prince of Great Britain and. Ireland, and Duke of Cumberland. That*s the tip—off^, wai^we look back at the royal British family tree. Hanover occupied the throne of Great Britain. The King of England was also King of Hanover. Vsilliam the- Fourth was the last to occupy both thrones. He left no surviving children. The crown went to his niece, Queen VictorIa#TSut^she could not become Queen of Hanover #1?ecause, that kingdom had what they called the Salic law, according to which a woman could not succeed to the throne. So Hanover went to the Kjngts brother, the Duke of Somewhat more than a century ago, the German House of if England had.the Salic law, and a woman could Cumberland, Now, not succeed to the throne the Duke of Cumberland would have the descendant and heir of become the British monarch. Today, i is Prince Ern^t that Duke of Cumberland is^Prince H ^ Ernkt, August, Christian, George A PRIilCE - S But,if history had been a little different, he would be King Ernft of England. I don*t toow what differencelt TOlll/ make in the present state of affairs, but it's amusing to think about VOLCANO Here's a blazing headline, almost a cosmic headline - the living museum of evolution is bursting with flame and fury tonight. Way back in the last century, Charles Darwin, creator of the present day Theory of Evolution, studied the primitive animal life of the remote Galapagos Islands. He said that there you’ll find a living archaic record of the Descent of Species. He called the Galapagos - na museum of evolution." There are tv/o thousand volcanoes on those Equadorean islands, in the Equatorial Pacific. The largest is at the western edge of the group - Narborough, also called Fernandina. Now - Narborough is in terrific eruption. A ship captain reports hov/ the six thousand foot peak exploded with a cataclysmic burst of fire, and tonight the south side of the island is one flaming mass of lava. A glaring ocean of molten rock is stream­ ing down the slope, while the mountain booms and thunders. Narborough is a mountain of many eruptions, one of whmh was recorded in the log of a sailing ship in the last centuiy. The vessel was near the island. when the peak burst into fire. Four miles away the blast of heat brought the temperature up to VOLCANO - 2 a hundred and forty-five degrees. The very water of the sea grew hot, a hundred and twenty-five degrees. The sailors were barely able to get their ship away from that cauldron. And that's an indication of what's going on right now in that living museum of evolution. Today I sought some understanding of this violent phenomenon of Nature. I knew that Vincent Astor was a student of the Galapagos, had been out there just a few months ago. So I had a talk with him. Yes, he said he had been to volcanic Narborough just last March. I asked him about the rage of flame and fury in the museum of evolution. Vincent Astor said it wasn’t quite that cosmic - that Chas. Darwin meant the Galapagos Archipelago in general, rather then the island of Narborough. He said there is little living evolution, little of anything alive there now on that masterpiece of desolation, nothing but a volcanic peak rising out of the sea, the tip of a submarine mountain scarred and pitted with craters and the debris of explosions. He told me the fire mountain was quiet when he was there, ^ 0 vards from shore, impossible impossible to get moi'e than a ft . y a „ /viu rfq of lava, beds of to traverse the fire blasted s eeP * VOLCANO - 5 volcanic ash. Nothing lives on than island volcano, except along the narrow margin of the shore. There, said Vincent Astor, you’ll find the Marine Iguana which lives half in the water and half out - a weird, archaic kind of sea lizard that reminds' a scientist of the age of reptiles, aeons ago. That Marine Iguana by the way is one of the things that made Charles Darwin call the Galapagos the "Museum of Evolution," Tonight out there it»s storming with volcanic fire as in this quiet studio I say SO LONG UNTIL TOMORROW.