WWIIR .1 - ?.iiJ. ~ ' ©J-.0,7,,9~7 War in India tonight. Th northwest frontier is aflame, again, as it has been 80 many tiaes in t h e paat one hundred years, and so many times during the past two or three thousand years. But this time those fierce aountain fighting men are not waging war on the British. This ti ■e they are battling the forces of Maharajah Sir Bari Singh, The war is in Iashmir, second lar g est of the independent states of India. According to reports the attacking force which has entered Iashair troa Iohistan or Chitral, north of IhJber Pass, nu■ber somewhere between ten and fifteen thouaand men. The word ia that they are well equipped, even to ar■ oured transport. If so. they must be getting outside help, probably tor■er soldiers of the British Indian Ar■y who are now citizens of Pakistan, the great new llosle ■ State. At any rate, the news from India, wbich ia still pretty vague, tells us that the troops of the uss111 - 2 Maharajah of Kashmir have been defeated. Back of this there is a dramatic 1tor7. The Vale of Iash■ ir is one of the most beautiful region~ on earth -- Dall Lake, and the Gardens ot Shali ■ ar, and the gorgeou, snow-capped Hi ■alayan peaks. It's population is al ■oat entirely loba■aedan. But its ruler, is a Hindu, Bari Singh. And accordin1 to the new 1etup in India, Iaahair ia al■ oat eatirel7 cut ott tro■ Hindu India, with Moalea Pakiataa along ita principal frontier -- Tibet on the Ea1t, Bu11ian Turtiatan on the Borth, and the wild tribal •11• where the Afridi1 and Mob■ ands li•e, on the le1t, i uuir between ab■t• and Atahaniatan. There i1 an exceedingly ceaplicated 1ituation in India with regard to two great princely Mo1lea 1tates:- /Iashair in the north with a Hindu ruler, and geographically belonging to Pakiatan; fabulously rich Hyderabad predominantly Hindu in the south, with a Moha■aedan ruler, and aurroanded by Hindu states. It would be difficult to conceive of anything aore explo,ive than this. All who knew India assumed that when the British pulled out t~ere would be a war over Iaahair in the northwest and that war aeeas to be going full tilt right now. And it has been assuaed that a similar war, oYer Hyderabad, in 1outhern India, woald come, also. That one aay break out any d~. There is a report troa India teni1bt that the Priae Minister ot Hyderabad ta is a prisoner in his own hoae. But nothing in the dispatch tells u• about the Maharajah, the richest aan in the world. Only that the Priae Minister was about to leave the city ot Hyderabad, the capital, a ■i tor lew Delhi, to sign a one year treaty with Jawabarlal lehru and the Hindu goYernaent. lord of this 1ot to the populace and the new■ ia that a aultitude, 10■ • fifty thouaand loha■■ edana besieged the boa• of the Priae liniater.The loalea1 ot Hyderabad want to join with Patiatan. The situation in India can be described•• ooaplicated, ■■■J* coapounded. ftt L ~ e Success tod y, ovi t Rus ia won what is de cribed s a moral victory on the subject or w r-monperinp. But al then tions werP in full agreemen • The Rus ians didn't e ex~c ly what they ad ked for. Bu be commit ee did Root a com romis, a resolution ~bicb h kes its finger at all urooap nda, in any nar of the world, that is likely to provoke or encour ~ any active agression. It also reouests the eovernments of the ~orld to ~ate e propriate steps to promote f~• friendly relations amone he nations, -- annropri te s Pps within c~nstitutional imit . tions. Such f~• friend Y re alions to be b . eed u on he princioles of the United lstions IPrtPr. Tis resolution hie now goes to the General A P bly was o ted unanimously b· ' he comm"ttee. , ;r U.N. -2 --- Former ~enator ~ar~en Austin of Vermont, she joined in t h b llo ing s id: "This is wonderful o ave us al votP thP SRme Yay." And h ad ed t a t he hoped i t ~ • change in the atmosnb e at Lake ucce • d o p ~ s a ■ ■zW• ■■ lp want e~ .,.(. i{othing w::sa left of the Soviet nroposel to have Americens, Turks and The r solution as mild version of h t the RusQians ,r Greeks l beled as war mongers. The clause, which named Uncle Sam es• a war monger never even CAme to a vote. So,the ~ussians although they did not, get their own ay ••r•• were able to save face. !!~B.llg'.J:Ql_[!1! (The un-Americ a n activitie e se s sion at Washington proceeded tod Y, wit t t h e p rinci p~ l witness, a acript writer, John Boward "aw son) ' As he took as at, he brandished a p per asking the whether he read it. Con g ress an . Parnell over and r e p lie , ... •no, • The itness the f ace and• outed that had week villifying hia, and now him aake a st teaent, in his own hia Coun11l or the comaittee aa edAwhether be••• or of the Coa■ uni t Party? The witness replied in effect it waa be co■■ itte•'• buain& a, b17ond the o■■ ittee'• power · to ask bis political bel efa. the question o and over again. Counael aake ti•• he aade the 1a■ e an••• · witb re■ ark1 about Bitler, and so forth, he atood on bis to answer the qu stion the wa, he w fit, \ Ghan Chair■an farnell Tho••• warned him that he'd~ : it h i. t up his performance, Lawaon) c ed for contempt if e Aep still refused to answer the question of whether he had been a Communist and even refused to leave the stand wbe ordered to. As policemen came forward to reaove hia, he bunt onto the microphone, shouti , g into it that he was being intimidated) Later in the day, Eric Johnston head of the Motion Pictures ~raducera' association caae to the stand to proteet that the committee's bearings had created an unfair impression, the · impression that the aovie industry is overtl.owing with Red agents. But he added that there ••r• Coaauniats in Hollywood, including one of hie own ~· · foraer assistants. Congreasaan Tboaas replied that Eric Jobn1ton had a riaht to criticize the coaaittee, but that the coaaittee 1aa carrying out the inatructions of Congress to expo•• Coaauniaa. The Congressman said to Eric Johnaton that no l aatter how aucb money or bow many glamor girls he bad btbind ! bia, the committee intended to continue directing the apotlight on Communism in Hollywood. IIJQLAJCZI, One of the international questions ot the day is, where is Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, leader of the Polish Peasant Party, one of the few who still dared raise his voice against the I■ Reda in bia country? According to reports troa London be i1 sate, probably in the Anglo-Aaerloan zone in Geraany, or aoawebre in ScandinaYia. Coaaunista in laraaw proteas to be glad that be 11 gone, though at the aae ti ■ e indi1naat that •aoae foreign go•eraaeat , I•• they p•t it, ooaniYed at his eaoape. The report ia that likola3011t, hie 1eoretary, and two ot hi• aide• and their •i•ea, aot •••1• And the Reda in Poland appear to be p•11lecl •• to ho• a party of aix oould h••~~~■k. Toni - ht, fr om Moscow, by radio Mikolajczyk was branded •a cowardly fugitiv,, a traitor, joinin g the company of exposed spies and saboteurs, hiding under the wings of foreign reactionaries.• on Then the Moscow radio went to charge Mikolajczyk with encouragin g underground bandits to overthrow the • Deaocratio order in Poland, and forming an underground ara paving the way for foreign intervention. Alleging also ' that earlier this aonth the Polish Peasant Party, his own party bad brsiled Mikolajczyk as an •enemy of Polish peasantry an4 a traitor to their interests.• 111 of which when you add it up ■ eans that the B•11ians are plenty sore because Mikolajc1yk, leader of th• Poliah peasant party, who dared to defy the ■, -- has eecaped to a democratic country. Latest news fro• Stockholm is th~t the ■ iaeing leader is expected to arriTe in the South of Sweden on a ■ cbeduled ferry service that regularly b•ings refugees into Sweden from Poland. FRAICE -- Tomorrow Paul Raaadier and his cabinet will ask the National Asseably of France for a vote of confidence; and corresponde~ta who know France best say it's doubtful whether they'll get it. France, as we know, ia in the throes of a three-oornered political fight. lne apex of the triangle is Pre ■ ier Baaadier; another apex ta General DeGaulle, who no• haa · ■ ore 1treagth tbaa •••rafter the ■ unicipal eleotiona, the runoff election,, which haYe left Baaadier and hi1 IJ Popular Republioan ■ o•e ■ ent ta auch weateaed. A1aiaet tbea both, are the Coaaunlat1, who toot a liotia1 la tbeae electioa1. The t able to fore Yoters who want• ballot• to the t grou.s but to the Ra■ adier art7. a■J aa they were FBAICE - 2 - DeGaulle and his followers not only want the Raaadier Cabinet to resig•, they want the Rational Aeaeably to vote itself out ot existence, after first passing a law sett ng up · aacbinery tor a general election, to chooae a new Parliuent. DeGaulle hiaaelt baa iaaued a long, fiery atateaent, declaring that France 11 in peril, both t r • within aad froa without. !be ■ unicipal electioaa, aaid be, ahow which way t•• people are turning, dltinitely againat the Co■ auni1t1. Be ••t on to de1cribe the Co■■uaist• ia ■uch the aae tera ~ •• our Coaauniats oYer here are described, •• aeabera not ot a party but•• deleaatea ot a toreiaa dictatorahip, tor whoa the aiaery of aen ia a ■ere 1pringboard. Be charge• the Ba■adier gover•e ■t with *••t•• teapori1in1; allowing the Co■■uniata to create contu1ioa aad division. Meanwhile, the Co ■ auniata are tbreateniDI strikes, particularly a nationwide railroad atike - .t:WQl - 3 perhaps a general strike. They are asking a titty percent juap in wages for everybody. Raaadier, ia expected to iasue a 1001 ,tataent to the lational Aaaeably t•orrow, warniq the country that the centinuing 4eaan4a of labor are booating prices to where the fraac will loae all i ta value aad the coo try wi il be b antrupt. That only baokruptcy and civil atrite lie ahead 1' the uniona continue to follow the Coaaunia\a. The epidemic in Cairo, cholera, gaining ground - four-hundred-and se v enty-one dyin 0 today in spite of the efforts cf some seventeen nations, includin 6 ourselves, to assist the Egyptian government staap out the pla~ue. In five weeks, sixteen thousand cases. Aaerican and British doctors and nurses are working oYer time, with Aaerican planes sprayin 6 DDT over cities and countryside. The gravest danger lies in the fact t•at *~• ■oat of the people - i&norant fellahin -- refuat to be inoculated, ignore health regulationa, and ■ any even hide their dead in their boaea rather than bury _ the ■, or put thea in wella, or conceal th•• in cart• carrying vegetab1ta. lo no wonder this outbreak in the ancient Land or the Pharoba ia hard to contro. PLANE _ ........ - Throu g t h e s tor m y a t m s phere of sou t e tern Alaska, a rmy l a ne a n d p riv a te p i l o ts ve b een f y in loliin in vai n f or the missin p la ne, the DC 4 wit h eighteen abo a rd; t h at l eft S e a ttle ye s terday. Shorty before pilot, Ca tain A.N. M field for a landin g ; at The heavy made so the fligb t o'c l oc k a fternoon, . the air p ort at e was ap roac q ing ·th stron g winds landing at I nette too the airport t wer for an on to The irport repl ed but Mon en never owled g ed t h e call. Be h is tan to stay alof until The rban sand A Swedish plane, on its way fro Istanbul to Athens. 1 On board a crew of ei gh t and some thirty s even passengers. The aircraft was already overdue when the pilot reported he was flying throu b a thunderstorm. A few minutes later, t e inhabitants ' of a tiny vil la e southeast of At ens sa violent flash of light in the nearby hills. A couple of seconds later came the sound of a crash. But it w snot until late today that iGreek police with ambulances and investigators found the fragments; scattered all over the side of Mt. Evzones for ~ore than a thousand feet. The plane bad crashed into that aountain- . side at full speed, killing everybody instantaneously Froa.all the evidence, an air current dragged the plane down, just as it approached the mountain. I H.R.H. t e Princess Elizabet h and her bride room rill pas their honeymcxn . in Great Britain, partly in England, partly in Scotland. . This is an announcement from the Court i self. Explained in the. story from London that it is because of the crisis t rou ~ h whicr the kingdom is passin. As a matter of fact, it is not at a ll unusual . for British Royal bridal couples to honeymoon in their own country. There are quite a few million people in the worl~ 1bo would look upon a honeymoon in some parts o f t • British Isles as a considerable treat. Actually, Princess Elizabeths father and mother, the Iing and queen, had thei own honeymoon at Birkhall in Scotland, here Princess Elizabeth and her consort will spend part of theirs. Row is something for feminine listeners alone: The trousseau is bein made in a quiet part of London, d Each g rment in it remote from the fashionable west en• will cost only a hundred and forty dollars. I am not in a position to say whether that is che p or not, but it doesn't sound cheap to me. And then, I am now . quotin • : Ber trous~eau includes a rments of filmy chi f fons, and f Rli9.~~- - 2 lace trim m ed ilks. There are items in mis y blue, in and white chiffons. Some in hyacint blue, and eriwin . , e blue. Yost of the ni btg~wns are 'ull skirts and some of the step-ins have little flarin kirts of real lace.w And the rrincess bas lost · eight since she returned from South Africa. Ber bust and hips are now thirty-four, wiast just over twenty-four. Nelson, I don't know whether that comes under the beading of news. Mebbe not! I'm puzzled. I