REPUBLI ANS E. :1 - ~ Jj_ 0 r 1 ·· s u · e ion - t h a t t e ublic a n a rty c a 1t n ::\ e . c e n , e o t from o e idle .... d r a . r of n o p olitic 1 1 if1c . . ce, · ut ro m one of the to r nk1n 1 e r of the .O.P., Sen tor Bricker of Ohio - who was a R p ublic n c ndidate for Vice-President in in eteen orty-Four. t Columbus, today, he issued a proposal for a new line-up in politics, the for tion of a new kind of p rty. And c 11 it someth1n else - not Republican. Senator Bricker thinks th e t there should be an alliance between the conserv a tive section of ~he G.O.P. a.nd the Sout ern D mocrats, likewis e oonserv t1ve. B01• equally opposed to the Truman Administration and wh a t 11 c lled - •A welfare state.• He mentions two names, Gener a l Eisenhower, President of Columbia University - who th e ot e r d y c e out a in s t t e tendency to look to the gov e rn ent for everyth1n. nd - former · Secret ry of St a te Byrn e of outh C olina, who is w a 1n n outs _ oken c 1 n inst t e spending polici es oft e overn ent a nd t h d rift int direction RX UBLICA S ••. .. of t t 1 . • The O 1 o s e n a t o r o1 ts out t botlJ pa rties r e split on t 1 s c ll-i po r a nt 1 ~ e of ove rnment u tern lis m . mon t he e ocr t , the so ut erners re 1n cont nt revolt a a inst the ol1c1es o! the Truman fair de a l. ~ut the Re ublic ns r - - lso split, declare• 8r1cker - pointing to the f ac t t t ome Re ubl1can leaders r not o cons rv t1ve, not so strong 1n opposing the elf re policies of the administration. Be says t t, with this division in the G.O.P., it 1s impossible to draft a satisfactory Republican platform for the Con ress1onal elections next year. (senator Bricker argues that, in recent elections, the voters have not had a clear cut ch a nce to express themselves on the question ot government-...4~ ep&11:M~ st teis , and the WPlf re issue - b e cause oth a rties are o d ivided on t ubjeot.) Hence the su e t1on o f n am~ l am tion oft conserv a. t ive ele nta of De m ocrat n d Republic ns - to fo r m n ew rty 1th RiPUBLICANS ...... ~ a n e . en t o r Bric r s a s t . t e s not p l a ced the pro os a l b e fore ve t or Taft, bis h io colle ue, who 1s t h e Re ublic a n olic. le er in the Sen a te. Nor has he mentioned it to other to l ead er oft e G.O.P. He merely st tes it as his own idea - putting it forth for national discussion. ell, there's likely to be plenty of discussion over so drastic a n o tion as a G.O.P. move to form a new kind of political party - and have the name ... •aepublican• disappear• from the A. er •.can political ,.. scene. hy, everybody knows that t ere n re bl two kind• I of .lmer1oatl, mostly!- Democrat and Re ublican. How could it be ot erwiseT In Gilbert and Sullivans •Iolanthe•, the majes 1c sentry sins: •xverv little boy or irl who's born into th1e world a live is e1 her a little Liber l or else a little - - Conserv tive.• · ell, in Brit a in it's now L bor P a rty instead of ~iber a l. But you c a n't ve uch r v 1 tion a ry RKPUBLICA S •.... 4 e-..... ~,:N4., 1 c· . n in t U.S.A. For over r •e ' l l 1 a in: ~ /\ • very l i t t l e 1rl or to .. o' born oman or a . 1 e 1 t er a 11 t l e e c r t or 1 e a 11 t t 1 e Rep blica.n!' ~ ~ ? ) LONGS An 1 . port t d - c 10 : do \! n in 1 on t o , , 01 e of th r c : i n e r , in the r , e l ot - " ' t 1 , c n t e re . . s , lot o f iakil•••• phi lo ophi c l 1 cour , des e r 1 d s " abs tru ' 8 and recondite.• The decision ,a on t h e subject ot mar1t1me union h1r1n ha ll s lon thew terfront - w ioh doesn•t sound so m . ataphy 1c al of philosophio 1. ut one ot t . h& star witnesses • . s a lo . n shoretnan n ed •Tru-e knowledge•. He's a n a ngel ot F ther D1' 1 . n , e . hlch re _ lly did raise the hiring h _ ll dispute to a high level. !he prosy, r a ct1cal rt of the story is that a tr1&1 e~a iner of the a tion a l Labor R l a tion . Board bande • d do n . a rul1n : tod a.y - t h at t e union hirin halls on tbe est Coast are 1n vi01at1on of the T a ft-B rtley . . Law, the ban on the olosed shop. Tr 1 a l ex iner Irving R gos in decla.l'e.d th · t the sy tem .- , 1 ts , e lf, s not illegal. the f ult be1 . n with th.e way the ll1r1n h , 11 re run. They d1scr1m1 , n t 8, ·_ inst lon . ehorem n ho r · not e e rs of tbe un1on, and t h t a _ ount _ to a. olo d shop. LONGSHORIKIN .... 2 The deci 1on w s te t1 o y 1 ·en by a ,1tne d, 1n 1 re part, on ~ o told ho , in West Coast h1rin hall , h i l s t e l a t longshorem n 1 ned to a job, bee u e he i not a union member. Thi witness w s - •True Knowl d • • ho said he was e elled from the union because, in the maritime strike of _ Nineteen Forty-Six, he refused to s rve in the picket line. Be couldn't ~o it - bein a follower of rather Divine. The angels of that negro cult leader are forbidden to eng ge 1n any such hostile performance. In his testimony toda~, •True Knowledge• went into the fine points of the nhilosophies ~ropounded b7 Father Divine. So much so th t the union lawyers tr1e4 to have hie testimony thrown out, because of what they c lled - •B1s frequent digressions into the realms of meta.physics.• ,-(.A. Trial ex miner a red t t the evidence given by •True Knowledge• did seeo, at t1 es, to be - •Abstruse nd recon 1te.• But en it c e to the matter of not ett1ng a job at a hiring h 11, hew LONGSHORilll••••3 plausible and ersu sive.• In other words, he sounded like - •True Knowledge.• Sot t's the story of ho, abstruse and recondite et aph y 1ct played a a rt in a c a st most important 1n the rel tions of industry and the unions. GERMANY OSCO 1ves a n e pl nation of t e killing o! a.n mer1c n s e r ea nt l as t ,eek b r Rus 1 a n so ldier, and says it w a s a n a cci 8'n.t. But 1t sounds like a strange accident, ccJrding to the Soviet version. In Berlin, four Americans in an automobile passed accidentally into the Soviet zone, ne a r a.n airf1ell ~ and sergeant John I. Staff o! Ramsey, Illinois, was k111e4 • by gunfire. The Soviet message today says that a Rueslan guard ordered the car to atop, and shot at the tirea of the oar - and killed the American sergeant, who was driving. Mighty poor aim, shooting at the tires and hitting the driver - who, moreover, was shot 1n the hea4. Today this e planat1on was immediately rejeo,e4 as 'unsat1-1 a otory.• In his protest, after the killing occurred, American Commandant General Kaxwell Taylor, denounced it as •senseless brutality.• He called for punishment of the Russian soldier and dem a nded action to prevent reckless shooting in the future. Both demands re ignored by the Russian reply. So it is - •uns a tisf a ctory.• YUGOSLAVIA T ed tri r. l o! St lini s t b g n 1n Yugoslavia tod Y, a mid urroundin s d rk . nd ortentou. The nlace, the Serbian town of Sarajevo - th t name so fateful in the be inn1n s of orld a r One. The courtroom - only a few blocks aw y from the bridge ere the heir to the -=- Austrian crown, the a rchduke Fran.,.. Ferdinand, and h11 - wife, were assassinated by a terrorist. Wh1bh savage incident led to the first global conflict. The first of eleven defendants took the witne11 stand today, and he out a figure in keeping with the surroundings - a bearded Russian orthodox priest, in stately black r~bes. The prosecution cl a ims that he pre a ched a nti-Communist propaganda until a couple of years ago - when Red Marshal Tito broke with Sovie\ Russia. Then, he changed around, cont cted Moscow . espiona e in Yu · oslav1a, and offered to do spy work for Stalin~ Today the orthodox priest denied one point of th e in 1ctment - th a t he d served the N a zi gestapo dur1n t e ar . But he e ~ full confe ion of Soviet XPGQSL4y14 ..... 2 espion ag , telling ho he transmitted information to the Russian military att che, who a 1 o the . . ead of the Yugoslav branch of the Stalin secret police, the one-tlme ogpu. He said th a t the spy job he did consisted largely of giv1ng reports about pol1t1c ~ l arrests m ade by the Tug q· L V pol1oe. \The ottbO'tHtX p,1••• ••• tellewe4 on the wttae■a. &ur1.ng the Y&1'. \ FOLLOW JUGOSLAYI4 the So 1et ord !ro th e world of sm d inlomacy 1 that o 1 inv de Ju osla 1a th1 co 1n spring - 1f t hey t ho ht t e Unit St tes and wester iurope ould stand by an do nothing a b o t ta it. ell-informed sources i 1n ton say that a grave crisis is alm01t in ev itable before spring -- s oscow learns slowly ut surel : , t a t th -••zs■ underco r attempts to overthro Red arshall Tito are not working. V 1oh woul4 , ean war for sure - e x cept for the Soviet fear that an invasion of Ju oslavia would mushroom 1n ~ o another orld war. I suopose, nobody t~1nks the American eople wou, plunge into armed co . fl1ct, to support Commun11t dictator like Tito- but once shooting be ins, wars have a way of dra ing people 1n willy- il l y. This Moscow notes and fears. U N . -- voted a Fifty-five million d ollar rogram to aid the Arab refugees in Pal stine. The project is one for public work~ to give occupation and a liYelihood to some six hundred and fifty-two thousand Moslems who flet fro m their Palestine homes when the State of i ■ Israel was established. Ever since that time the problem of the Arab displaced persons has been a danger spot. They'•• been living in refugee camps, under bad condition,, in countries like Trans-Jordan. So now the U I yote1 a sort of international IP A under hich the Mosle ■+ fugitives will be emplo7ed, on such projects as re-fori tation, soil a ■•• con s erYation, and road building. ITIA Int e Sicilian Cit of C t4nia tod y, the peopl ' . ere c rryin u m brell • Bec a use it as raining - ..,.,.~~ J.. sand and ~he . C a tania 1s a t the foot of Kt. Etna, and th1 mornin the volcano of hi tordc renown burst into new ruption. Peasants of the vineyards on the slope re ort th t two ne er t r have appeared, the fire mountain e ploding at thos t o places - ~hurling forth tons of s a nd and ashes, which fell showering upon the city below. Kt. ltna is Europe's la.r est volcano, nearly eleven thousand feet high, t ller than still more f&mou• Veauviu. The l a t eruution was two year, ago, when a stream of molten lava poured down t.he mountainside for ten miles. In Hineteen Twenty-Nine, a river of incandescent rock went all thew y to the sea, the nea.rbJ coast, wipin out vineyards and villa es. So now a new c taclysm may be in them kin, &I the p eoule of C tani a carry umbrell a s 1n a r 1n of end and ashes. _FOLLOW 4itHA The lat e st pictur e s - t e v o le no a ll lit up ton1 ht, with great fi r es of molten lava pouring out ~f the new ~r ters, while glowin rivers creep down the slo ~ e. ount Aetna -- g iant beacon in the darkness of n1 ht. CHRISTMAS MAIL / e 1 ves } ousand ~ / ot Z , l ly. C~penha s o y C hr 1st , as - and p1tal o Denma_7', - are our ing /n. and Ireland, the children think the proper address for lriee lringle 1s the great icy land nearest the lorth Pole. aa;°lbey mark the envelopes - Santa Claua, Greenlaa h1ch island is a possession of Denmark - ao,the letter• go to the post office of the Danish o nit 1. There, theJ are handed over to a young lady, a clerk named Greta Staunlng, who acts as secret ry to S nta Claus.ind today ~ o l d how the letters nowadays reflect the shortage■ ~ in Britain. One little boy in En land, for example, li sted wt t e w~nted tor Christmas, and climaxed w1t~ a treasure - an apple. He sent a lon 11st, which ended th 1 s w y - a drum , 3. p n c 11 b Ox , a b 1 . • l O ud w 111 et le , and CHRISTMAS MAIL •.... 2 n pple. Well, I hope Sa~ta Cl a u and provide th.f'apple on Cbrist ma is ble to oblige, - in addition to the - . , r e ~ drum and the big, loud whistle. BPk♦ T h re's n a r ument in Portl a nd, Or eg on, about a school c rniv a !, w hic h f ea tur d a h ul da n&e p erformed b y t w o y oun o me n t e c be r , h tl t h e s chool principal p l a e d t he a rt of s a ilor. C omn la1nt 1 s ma de ~ Ya B a ptist a1n1ster, the Rev rend Louts Leh m an, pa stor of the lv a n g bl B a ptist Church - who w a s not t ere, didn'' see 1t. But his wife and 4aughter did - and the parson says that, when they a me home, they reenacted the hula dance, that wig g ling of the hips. They showed h1m jua, how it was done - those gyrations 1n rase skirts. rro ■ which the Reverend Kr. Lehman got a vivid idea of the performance. He thinks it hardly c a me under the heading of gra.mmar school e ducation - p a rticul a rly in view ot the p art played by the school principal. The pastor describes the prof e ssor in the following words: •• g1rl-crazy s a ilor s t a g er1n g dizzily into a tree at the st ht of a 1rl in a grass skirt wi g 11ng her h1 s.• ~ ;.Jr:e,er=~awlJ '-, To the defense co m es a l a dy who att e nded the p erform an ce, a n d p oints out t h t the hi p -wi g gling has a m e a n1n, re a l ra m a t1c signific a nce: •The hula dance,• she expl a ins, •tells a story.• Ye s , but what atoryT elson, u o you know the story the hula d a nce relatee!