lB41QI The rrenob national as•embly tonight, voted approval of a record-breaking military budget, an all-time high - seven hundred and forty billion I"\ francs. Which comes to more than two billion, one hundred million dollars. Money tor arma ent - and one-half vi l go to Borth Atlantic defen ■ e, the rrench contribution to the International aray commanded by General naenhower. So now money 1a being put up - though, otherwise, the rrench oontrlbution 11 mostly on paper. Twenty rrench divi11ona of troops ha•• been promised, but the task of building the 41v11ion1 for liaenhower haa hardly begun. s PA,IB London has named a British ambassador to Spain - Sir John Balfour, who has been 1erv1ng hitherto in ~gent1na. The government of Madrid has beeb asked for approval of the new ambassador - and an okay is expected soon. Thia British action follows the lead of the "' Vn1ted 8 tatee - W&ehington having appointed an ambassador to 'lain a couple of days ago. Other oountried are joining in the rueh, 8 weden, Belg1wa, Greece. Vh1oh br1ng1 to a virtual end the diploaat1c boycott imposed on the Madrid goTernaent •e•eral year• ago - the rranoo regime being total1t&rian. Diplomatic representation wa• minimized, 1n accordance with a re ■ olution by the U. K. but this antagonistic action did not seem to V weaken rranco at all - and Spain 11 too strategic to be kept out of the diplomatic family foreYere --- AThe westernmost peninsula of lurope - fortified ~~~ ~ ~ 4 ~ ? ~ - _!!!R)( CURTAIi The Iron Curtain has closed down b~tween two frozen bits of Arctic land_ two sister ialanda , close together , like twins. Theylre 1n Behring strait and both have the aame name - Diomede. The one to the\Jliat, big Diomede, belongs to llfllaaia - while little Diomede, on the.at, 1• part of A-laaka. The people &ffeoted ' by the fall of the iron curtai~re - the ~akimo. Thia waa diacloaed today by a I1an1ah 1tuden\ of the tribe• of the Borth, Dr. uel Laurent~Chr11ten1~ who has travelled among the lakimo of Bering ■ trait. Be relates how, 1n foraer tiaea, there wa ■ eaay travel and aaaoc1at1on between the two Dlo■ede islands, which are three mlle• apart. The tribe• on each are almost like one family. But all that h&a been stopped. The people on the American island inforaed the Danish doctor that, of recent months, they have IROJ CURTAIB 2 seen nothing of their friend ■ on Russian Dimomede. The two eiater ~ctio islands are now as if they were different planet• - separated by the Iron curtain. UPP CHINA News from · nch Inda-China tells of a ~ eds tia.v~ be.en a " ,roin . fort, )>'it w,re fro Afo/' oa D&yeaeta ••• leas kalves, rrench officers declare that this 1s the all-out effort of the Reds to sma.1h the ring of defenses guarding Hanoi - and the assaults have been broken thus fa.r. 1.QREA In Kor a, the Reds to d ay were stabbing at the UN defense line - one pl fl,n&-Jn the E a s ~ ~ r e d ce after another. an ad vance, although reports ar e contradictory. One report was that the G l's retreated for ten miles. But now the ten mile ■ a:1-~ appears to indicate the d1sta.noe the Commun1stsl\u■■ ~have push ed below the !hirty-eighth ~rallel • .....,..... ~ One 1mpor;ant enemy oonoentr&t1on 11 1n the Munsan a re&, twenty-two mil e s northwest of Seoul. There ma.sees of Communists have - concentrated on the bank of the lmj1n River - which stream 1s the defense line. American a.1r power we.a out 1~ foroe a.gain today, ~--- -- ~ - blasting ;:,;;;:;::;::;:;r ™ • • a.s advance unlt1 I'- A of a quarter of a mlllion Beds 1a.unohed what appea r ed to be orel1m1nary attacks. ilB JRA L - KOR EA L i eutenant Gen e ral Matthew Ridge•ay, the n w com mande r o f the U.S. Eight} Army, expresses ,.. c o mp let e c onfidenc e th t h1s forc e s will be able to b e a t off t he e xp e cted offensive of the Chinese Com m unist s . So s tat e d at a news conferenc e held by the Comman d er who succeeds Lieutenant General Walker, t~•~ kill e d 1n a jeep acc1d nt. _ _;;--------------------.,,,,.,J Tok y o announces an appointment for the eon of Gene r al Walker. Be 1a named Aide-de-camp to Supreme Co■mander Douglas MacArthur. Captain 8&11 Walker served under his father as a Commander of a company of infantry. low Aide-de-camp to MacArthur • . In V~sh1n g ton, President TrWD&ll asked Con g re s s today to grant a posthumous promotion \o the lat• General Walker. Raise hi■ - from Lieuteun, General to f u l l General, from four stare to five. The funeral of General Walker will be 1ole■nized a\ Washington's Arlington Cemetery on Tuesday, with full military honors. congress acting - be will be interred with t a t h i g h es t military rank, full Gen e ral of the Army. DOLLIS The address tonight by John roster Dulles agrees with former president Herbert Hoover-- in warning the nation against what he calls a 'series of korea1 1 • That 11, a 1erie1 of le11er conflicts around the world, whioh would waste our strength away. But the Republican advlaer to the State Uepartment urges this country not to abandon friends a.nd allies by retreating into a• western hemisphere glbraltar.• In that way, he tate1 l11ue with ex- pre1ident Hoover - - John roster Dullea agreeing wlth president Truman that we au1t go ahead wlth military &1d for We1tern IRlrope, a• matter• now ~ atand. • The tree world,• sald nu11ea, 1 ha1 found a way to 110w down Soviet Oom11unlat expansion - - by methods 1hort of war;' Athough he adaltted that we run the risk of war. In general, it ls a moderate statement backing puLLIB 2 our present foreign policy -- and agreeing wit h the Republ1c&n elemen, headed by Senator Vanderberg of X1oh1g&n and Governor Dewey of Bev York. ,D;T BOMBER Tod Yan A,r Force General was ordered - to the f ctor . Major General S. R.Brentnall was put on a production j ol-of turn1 gout - one single item. ~ T h e B-V7 -- the six engine 3et bomber. Yb1ch 1ndi a t es the importance of the plane. The B-V7 flies faster than five-hundred-and-fifty miles an hour, with ten tons of bombs. How going into••• ~ product1on - and the 30b rates &~General. Tha.t sort of thing has happened only once before, in the Second World War - when General E. B. Wolfe was assigned to direct the developaen, an4 production of the B-29, ,he euperfortrees that was the prelude to the bomb devastation of Japan. The B-V7 with six jet engines, can operate above thirty-five thousand feet, and 1s at least a hundr e d miles an hour faster than any other aediWI bomber 1n the Air rorce. CONTROLS The government is rationing cobalt. All suppl1e of th ~ strategic metal are put under rigid control, and most will be required f or armament building and other es ential uses. Which will hit the production of a lot of •~st• c1v111an goods, like radio sets, television, and various kinda of household equipment - using cobalt. comes troll Belg~ Con Q / / '9 U8 O.rbines, h b a equlpmen ./ .• / J,n rad1'6 an / . , ,,, . used in ~ auch -Ji-ome prod~ct1 .a• and washing •ohi~ee.) The manufacture of radio and televtalon s ts will be curtailed -- and the word from Washington is that color television 11 likely to be shelved for the duration of the emergency. But the government will do~~ all it can to keep the~adio and television ind~tries goitg _ since theyAmay be needed for vital defense work. SHITB,i " ~ rally of the Robert s _ m1ths was called today_ to aid the first quadruple amputee from the lorean war, who lost both hands and feet from frostbite. His name - Robert Smith. The news has been telling of the cheerful courage of the soldier thus afflicted - how, at the !&lter Beed hospital in Washington, he greeted his mother with a smile. This bring• fast action at Jacksonville, Florida, where Robert Smith of the A. and P. got together with Robert Smith, & contractor - and they began a fund, cont 1but1ng two hundred dollars. They call on all the Robert Smiths 1n the country-all thirty thousand· of them - to rally to the ald of their nameeake, the G. I. who 1• giving 10 brave a display of cheerful courage. ~cTOU H r e 's a proposal that we should have , no, onlY doctors of m e d1c1ne, but also - bachelors of medicine. Sounds r . asonable. In the regular acadea1o rbachelor of) degrees we have theA-s••••t■s ~ arts, and the Doctor of Philosophy. !_ ~ and Ph E • The Bachelor of medicine would be a kind of limited phya1cian, who would ~sax practice in th ord1na.ry huadr m 111• of life -- without having anything to do with aor• difficult problems 1n illness. The suggestion wa• ma.de today by Dr. Paul Sears of Yale, addrees1ng the Amer1ca.n Aasoc1a,1on for the Advancement of Bo1ence. There'• a aoarc1,, of doctors, and more are needed. OnlJ about t1tt1- ,I five hundred are ga graduate, ea.oh year. " wou1df,: 'Ill! phye1c1&ns &rs turned the udio&l schools, because theY l&Ok for the top grade of practice. But a&nJ would•• do quite we / Th&t 1s they oou,,ld take care of the ord1n&rY cold■ &nd stomao - &ches; epra1ned &nkleB and b&bY' 1 JlPQTOR& - 2 colic. While could serious ills and 1njur1e1 qualified 1n the medicine.) So, oaa: the medical so1ent1at of Tale suggests - bachelors of medicine, aa well &I 4ootor1 of medicine. ~ In TenneHsee -- a. thriller of rescue from a cave. Near the••• town of KoK1nnv1lle, H1gginbotto■ cavern reaches far into the Cumberla.nd Kount&1na,- ~ o u r hi g h school boy■ w e nt caTe exploring.One, Don Ba.11 - seventeen year old son of the Tenne1••• Manager o f the A11001ated Press. They went on &n4 on, _......,_..,.1J ... 'z- through great sp&ces of the black g roHo ; - ~ nO Ball fell into a ohaem fifty feet deep. After which there wae no sound fr011 hl■ -- and · . a anxious ompa.n ns made the 1r way out, to e t hel • National Gua.rd■aen reapon4ed, and tod&J they made their way to the black pit. Villlaa ;rear volunteered for the d&ngerou• Job. Be wa• lowere4 by a rop~ an"$ound Don Ball - uncon■ cioua, The youth was railed out of the ch&•• ~ and put on a. stretcher. Then the Bat1onal Guard••n p a e1ed the stretcher along - and it bad to be done while they were on their bands a.nd knees, the roof of the cave that low in place•· of re e cue - ■r 13,. they got Don Ball out, seventeen hours after he had fallen into the p1t. To : . ight he le in the ho1p1tal, 1till unconsoioue, a he&d 1n3ury. But the doctor• anaolmoe4 •• tb&t h11 con41t1on 11 - favorable. RlllBf.JPI British girls got & bit of &4T1ot today. They ••r• told - get out and ohaee huab&nde. at home &nd wait tor a aan to beat a wite. I D.onl 111 &rOU4 (1eet11 hl1 w&y in ;4~ ilf !ht, coun1el eaana~•• troa Dr. fthel Due1, ot the London marriage gu14&nce oenter. lhe 1a14 that Britieh g1r11 are no, enterpr111a1 eaoup, although ehe admit• that the purau1t of a huab&a4 h&I to be done 1tlllfull7. •we all tnow,. l&JI the Doctor, • lhal women have to wall to'• ute&. ,. But, lhe addl, • there 11 a way of ohallDI aen. a The aode1t 111tle a111 40e1•nt eaol1J 1•' a la110, and rope a hu1ban4. • We a&J h&Te lo 4o lt with a 1m11e, or bJ lhe way •• dre11,• 1ay1 lhe Doctor. -l\&.A..:- Or, 1n the word• of a popular epl1raa1 A 'Be ohaaed her, until ehe caught hi■.• JelP PLACID I am broadcasting from the Ad1ronc1act1 tonight, as I usually do at least once each winter. This, the period between Christmas and Hew Year, I is called College Week. y 0 ung people coae fro ■ far and wide to take part in••• hockey matches at the big Olympic az■aa arena, or at the lumping meet on the seventy-meter Olympic Hill, or in down- hill and · cross country sti e'lent1 . - ~ ~ ~ ~ -="i- l~'."'1 4 (j:).., • «-. d'\- w-~ • F ~ ~ ~ On the slope near the t&11ou1 Late Pl&ol4 ~ Club in a snow etor■A I was · talking w-,. to two '1 our x-mountain■■•• trooper,, Ray Bellll&ll alMl Don Traynor. The three of u1 were wonderina why our Government failed to put aountaln troop• into the Korean war. These young ■en had aerve4 1D Italy u nder General Mark Olart in the Tenth Mountain Division, which Kart Clark repeatedly eald wae the fin e st outfit of the ■ all. t•••• And here we h&ve been fighting a winter war in one of th~most ... W...t. ~ " mountainous region• on ear h~n•t the Tenth Mountain Division been reactivated and used in Xore&T W:P: pµc1p - a Or do we always have to do verythin the hard way1 Ba.v1ng bu11 t up ~ o ll nta1n warfa.re tra.dUlon JC. ~ during the last war, wouldn't it be an excellent tZJ plan A alway~ have mountain troop• rea4y1 llnoe so much of this planet 1a made up of mountalu. Aleo, here at the Lake Placid Club we have been disouasing a way to honor one of the \op winter aportaaen of •:l time, · former Captain ot Ille (cllecl/ American Olyaplc Tea.a, Bubert Stevens, wh~ ~1,1111 -- year. Be was 1dol1sed by young and old~ an alr•• in World War One, fa.moue 1n many 1port1, a pert••' aodel for Aaerioa.D youth. s.. · '"t~q-.-.n:ltl ~• aeu...,. 'Jhere wlll be an lntern&tlonal u o ~ ., ~ ' l i e r , ae tMN ..-n~!NMIL,.....,('o honor . the number one citizen of the A41ron4aokl.