.&ISEIIHOWjR LT- p,_ 0 ; _t..£..:L • tJ}--i:f:- I 'f _ J';;l. the Here is f\ financial statement from General Ike. Late this afternoon, the ne\-JS wire t>ave the figur s, and €he only Di real point of interest concerns that &1senhower book "CrLlsade in wrope • ") / Su.ppositions had been that he might have got as mu.ch as tbree-qu.arters of a million. There was even talk of a million - the book having made a huge amou.nt of money, serial r1&hts, radio, television, motion pictures. Actuall.y,(the pLlblishers paid the General six h&.mdred and thirty-five tho~sand dollars. He sold the book outright,• as• an auteur author, and his tax came under the heading of capital gains. AmOWlting to - nearly one-hundred-and-fifty-nine thousand dollars)Which left him a net earning of - four hundred - and seventy-six thousand. The rest of that isenhower financial statement is hardly news. It's br0ken down into two pertoos, in ten years. uring six years, which wold include the time of orld W ar T~, the Q neral ~ot a tot a l of fifty-one thousand dollars in salary EISENHO W ER 2 ,lhich, after taxes, came to a little less than eie;ht thousand d0llars a year · - ~ J for the Commander of nllied Victor ( on the Western Front. For the past fow- years, during which he was President of Columbia University, General E isenhower had an income of one--hwldred- and nineteen thousand dollars, after taxes. Something less than - thirty thousand dollars a year . . - These ti&ures do not include ,/ . .-~d•i~ of course, the sum derived from the book. Altogether, it shows the small A rmy pay for so high an qfficer - in active service. ~'hich increased a lot - after the war, with civilian earnings, the proceeds of the book. lMIClilaM...:. In the political scene, tonight, the General ts in T e xas, where he certainly must have ot tired of hearing, "Ha p py Birthd a y to yod ! " His s ixty-seeend birthday, a nd he was on a spe e ch-maki ng tour in the stat e wher e h e w a s born. llithday cakes a t every ~too. rowd s thro ng i ng , b ans p l a ying. Ma, p.ar lft8 tba; some e HI ~ttRO .. Follow il~tlBQ!tR The cliaax came at San AntoJ')io (toni 6ht, n•• \ General Ike spoke in front of the Ala ■ a - the venerated tbe ey■ bol of the Texas fight for independance ■ ore than a hundred years ago. The celebrat~on was fantaetic) blaring of bands, the whirl of Mexican dancers, the singing of negro spirituals. In his address, the General said of his opponents: •They shrug off ■ oral laws as platitudes.• Mf!!l!U- STEVEISON Governor Stev e nson is making his bitt e r e st a ttacks t ' lt Lake City - condemning General isenhower as one who has welcomed "character assassins an d slanderers." A dlai referring, of course, to Senator McC a rthy of Wisconsin and his thundering charges of C ommunism) Stevenson exhausts the vocabulary of invective, slamming at the R e publicans and their leader, General Eisenhower. Tonight he••••• accuses the General of following, what Stevenson calls - the "kreml1n" line. That, he applies to Eisenhower 1 s description of the present boom time as a res11lt of war and theats of war. The " lrem:in" line, says Adlai - and he takes the Truman line in excoriating and belittling Eisenhower. Today Stevenson was asked for a reply to the h Nixon speech of last ni g ht. The vice-presidential candidate accusing him of using poor Judgment - when he acted a s a cbaracter witness in the trial of lger Hiss, •••• • It ■ ill s~ON - 2 doing his duty as a citizen - when he testified to the good reputation of Hiss. Hixon said that was bad Juciwnent - in view of the testimoey against Hiss at the trial. Today, Stevenson said - he would make no reply to ?Uxon. ADD STEVENSON Y rk, twenty-two ~rominent lawyers, Republic a as well as Democrats, "deplore" the N i xon charge that Adlai S~evenson is unfit for the residency, because he testified in behalf of l.ger Hiss. They say that Stevenson did - what, "a~ good citizen should have do~. ~ under the circumstances." Nixon declared that Jtevenson acted voluntarily. The lawyers contend, that this ives a "slightly twisted" implication. They say the facts are that the lawyers for Htss asked Stevenson to testify, and he agreed to do so. But, they say, ne could have been subpoenaed, if he had refused - 1n the Hiaa case. ., TRUMAN - EISENHOWER We're seeing a strange turn of history nowadays, in the feud that President Truman is waging against General Eisenhower. Their famous friendship, based on the highest admiration, now turning to bitterness and enmity - the President assailing, belittling, trying to tear down one of the greatest reputations in this world. Surely an oddity in American politics - a campaign to overthrow one of our top ranking war heroes. It makes one think - of famous broken friendships in the past. We recall the rift between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Jim Farley. But that was a minor affair - Jim Farley never having had anything like the standing of the Commander of the () Victory in the West. All of which suggests - a look back across the grand span of history. Which was the most famous broken friendship ot all? Well, a historian could make a number of suggestions. But the one that comes to mind 1s that grandiose tragedy of medieval England - King Henry the S cond and Thomas a 1 Becket. TRUMAN - EISENHOWER - 2 Our school books tell of the King a nd his intimate friend and adviser Minister of State, the churchman, Thomas a' Becket. King n , nry raised him to the highest honor - and made him Archbishop of C a nterbury. The King was having a quarrel with the Church, and expected his friend to serve his cause. But, when Thomas a'Becket became the Archbishop, he supported the Church, and opposed his ' friend, the King. Henry the Second was astonished, enraged - and waged a bitter feud. It all ended when henchmen of the King murdered Thomas ,' a 1 Becket at the altar of Canterbury Cathedral. Likely enough, that was the most famous broken friendship in all history. ' .,u6ng ago~ but it comes to mind - as we see the President of the United States in his bitter --&l~~~~~..f.. political feud with the General \ho _..our Eu..,-opean victory A in the Second W orld W r. Well, I don't s~ppose yo~ can campaign ga i nst a n a t ional hero, without trying co tear the national hero down. ROOS:.'VELT A n impressive quotation comes along - which bears on the subject of those political funds." _ke the Nixon Fund, the Jtevenson Fund. The authority quoted is - the late Franklin D . Roosevelt. ln Nineteen Thirty-Two, Just before he became President, he wrote a mabazine article in which he said - you shouldn't go into politics, unless you're financially 1ndependen F.D.R. put that opinion in the following words: " ~ ither the individual should have el } Ougb money of his own, safely invested •• or else lle should have business cormect1ons, a profession or a Job to which he can turn from time to time. 11 ,. All of which is brougnt out in a Ml book by a college professor, Harold Gosnell, who analyzes the political success of the four-term President. (The Un ted St a tes G ove rnm ent e e ct s , lunt ly, t h e M s c ow claim - in the c a se of an un a rmed u .. omber shot dow by .,;oviet fibht e r planes. T h e e s de cl a r e the B-2 , • as over Ru s ian te1 · ri tory . The ..;ta te tm ent say - o . ctually, the uestion boils down to the stat~s of a roup of small islands, the liabomais. ~ hich are between Japan and the Ku.rile Islands. The plane was fly1n0 tn that area - which is in dispute) The Ku.I · 1le Islands, north of Japan, were awarded to the Joviets at the Yalta C nference - ~ nd th e Reds proceeded to claim that the Habomais were part of the deal. This has never been conceded - the United ·· tates claiming that the ownership of those islands has not yet b ee n Jecided. • 1 oma i d s ute, bu the vi ct ims a re - eioht American flyers , l o s !/ th h B - 2 . , b·e, o e n V ... ~ t e C 1 r n . n.m e r can r· ' V C r e n my 0 t on le II ip r In ' a t. o ur , C 1 e e s e r e r v en r ne;l,y rt WDD1 t. t, th c nfl ct in ub nth r ru66 e ri · e called - "Triangle Hill. T ere , th e a ttack ne; rces ha to fight their way up a teep slope. Th e y reache a lin within seventy-five f et of the crest, but had to raw back, when the enemy sent a barra e of hand-grenades, roll1rl6 own th h1ll. · Dispatches describe it as one of the harde t fights n the K rean r - nd ~ome G.I's are described as bitter, bee use of th odd a6ainst them. nt Tri rl6le Hill, there a re new r e ports of " mo olian ti1ants. ' T-.ll Goli a ths from pntral nSi - int e Red forces. Follow ~QRtA ' The latest - heavy Red counterattacks have thrown back the United ations Forces - both at Sniper Ridge and Trian le Bill S TA L IN ------ In M oscow, t h e Con ress o f t he Soviet Commu "l istic P arty came to a thunder i n c l i ~ 1::;, wh n Stalin spoke. Two thousand dele g ates roared, • Gl ory o T h e the G reat Staiin!• -7Soviet Chief spoke for only ten minutes, but he was interrupted by cheers so often that he was on the rostum for twenty-five minutes. What Stalin had to say will be scrutinized all over the world. He declare d that the capitalist, classes had changed•••• their character,~~broksn definitely with the masses. So therefore, the Soviets must collaborate with those masses. The ~oviets need what ~ l l e d , •the •trust, sympathy, and support of " fraternal peoples abroad.• This, I su p pose, will be taken to mean/ that Soviet policy will no• seek some sort of •united Front• ) tryin g - to collaborate with the workers i~festern countries. That was the oscow line back in the twenties. IRAN - ish, 0 Y, han i n r l th Iranian man or , own a 1ent 0~ fi ty- ~1 m llion ol . r . It I l t r ect on~ n thi raises th ib l y a gain - ha Ir n • rem r y br ·k o f di lomatic relations wi t Lo ndon. ord rom Teher a n is &hat ossadegh may u e a n alle6ed British "piot II as an excuse for a diplomatic break. In any case, the negotiations for s ttlement of the oil dispute hav e collapsed - unless M asadegh replies with another d mand for money. Iran 1~ in virtual bankruptcy, • and all it can think of is - a payment of cash as a condition for ne otiations to work out a compromise. n bir a y o ay , a 11 e U X e ing - w e r c e l e br a t what place. e m ier de V o ler a is e venty, an h I no i ublin. H I at Utre ch , H o ll a nd - in hospit 1 t r . 1t le ha been ear of th1 , but eciali t a re ryine, to save - e alera•s e· esi.ght. Last "'6U t, he remier o Ireland c ncelled all ublic engagements, and flew to Holland - wherehe has been ever since. H s troubles began years a~o. an h~ had an operation in Nineteen Fort y , - aA a Uar ■a ban e tu 11 1 • ua • ».ao a , f z D b 1 12£ Today, h pent his Seventieth Birth ay in a dark hospital room, aw iti the result - of two operations tnat had Ju.st been erfoI"Jlled. A new crisis in life that bas had so many ritical hour - ~oi~ back to the time when de V lera wao the only 1nsu.r6ent leader to escape the firing squad, after Dublin's ~ster Rebellion. C 'l' - ortl , r g n, th r I a furri r , who is r ett irl6 back - a fur coat. t t hat it 1 n•t oo on, it 's a beauty - moo 0 low m skr a t. k.t I n e v r w a muskrat 0 10 lik he moon, ut they dot ink nc na e or furs nowa ys ~ ~ - · the coat back - b cause he se t it to rs. N ~on . - 11 o ~ which 1 ~ t h e lar e reaction to that famous N xon radio-television address - in which the R publican vice-presidential can id te 0 ave a financial ccount for himself and is ife - the money matters of Dick nd a t. In that bit of domestic drama, the2was a telling moment when the J nator aid his wife does not own fur coat. Only, what he c 11 - a ' res ectable Republican cloth coat. i 1- .11 - refle c tion 1 t e scandals in· shin gto n, scandals of mink. Tnat w e nt well with th eneral public, but the furriers did n' t like lt - thy thougnt it was re 1 ct o n 0n the resp e ctabil ity of fur co a ts. · o, at l-'o rtl a nd, fur Dealer C lT - - !!:d Harnilt n tho t r . i on h.ould we r on - n en one iii aew as a ,;,if't. N. not mink - that would ve b n too ~nny. Hes n - moon glow u~kr at . To ay h receiv dale ter from N xon h u rters, thanki~ him, but s a ying: The policy which enator Nixon has always followed prevents · e acceptance of all - 5 " o - ~ - per onal ~ifts of this nature. " =: A back 6oes the moon blow muskrat. LTP.1952.10.14i.pdf LTP.1952.10.14ii.pdf