GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: -------.....------------- Republican leaders in Congres s bav r decided on the kind of incoae tax aut they want:- - a slash of thirty percent in the case of incoaes less than a thousand dollars a year; a cut of twenty percent tor taxes on incoaes of between a tbouaand and three thousand dollars a year. According to this the ttiirty percent reductioa would benefit, for exaaple, a aarried ■ an wit two ' dependents, who baa a gross income of Three-thousan4 three hundred dollars a year. · Thai is, about sixty dollars a weiik • Bis net . income for taxation, figure• at leas than a thousand a ye a r. So the sixty week aan would get a thirty-percent inco ■e tax cut • • Congres o heard 'test im ony tod~v from A ct ing Secretary of State A~heson on the subject of President Truman's new foreign P olicy. The Acting Secret~ry of St tea peared before the Forei1n Affairs committee of the Bouse to give information requeat about the meanings of President Tr~man's/\a••~•••tx for Four Hundred Million dol l ars to help 11111111 Greece and Turkey againat s_oamunism. The Acting Secretary was immediately •• asked -- · did he think that this American intervention against com■ uniaa in the Hear laat - would mean war with Soviet Russia?-- Be replied:-- ,. .. no. lie gave his opinion that there waa, in bis words - - "no possi bili t1"-. "tha t the new foreian o icy would res · lt in war. On the contrary, he said that oJr stand against Red expansion in the ~ Near East would •••,\ the cause of . peace. ;,. Another question being asked is this: QQ!2R~§.§---=-1 lhat about Aa3ric1n soldiers? Acting Secretary Acheson replied today that the Truman plan did not contemplate the eaploy■ent of Aaerican troops in Greeo Be sa· a that the ailitary aspect meant eiaply that aoney would be provided for the Greet and Turti1h araiea -- to enable the ■ to suppress atteap~s to awing their countries to coamuniat dictatorship. , In Greece a gov rnment offensive is being launched against bands of Red guerrillas, who are known to be accompanied by members of an inquiry ~ commission of the United Nations. Qpeek ~reepa ere dxiviag aa ayaiaa\ ••• fleds, N •~i~e ef ~b• p1ea1&e~ is that the Coaaunist guerrill~a are taking advantage - ~ of the presence of the UN people WM:eb-trtr. .., •• /( 'lratf_ . ~eeping them••• immune from **••••x attack. Thia ,( follows a rumpus that has broken up the inquiry, -tr for the time being at least • . The UN delegation,••■ t3" pcl '1e ■■ \lai•+, cf ugoalav ta anl! B&!i 11 ilL, aade an appointment to question a prominent leader of the ree Reds. The place of \aw I i ia- ■■ at was in a remote haunt in the mountains, a place so wild that the U a delegates had to get to it on mule back. They waited for the chieftain of the Reds, but in . vain -- - he failed to show up. They waited for GREEK GUERILLAS - 2 -----------~--------- two days, after which tlose of the del e gates who represented the western democracies, the American, British, French and so on, decided they'd bad enough. So the U.N. Commission split up. The totalitarian representatives waited, until finally they ■ et the Red guerilla cilief, and they• ve been i~ with the Communist partisan bands ever since. Which has brought about the situa~ion as of toda1 1 -- the OB representatives, Soviet and Polish, acting as a kind of shield for the Coamunist bands. But now the Greek government has ~ad enough am has ordered its ■ ilitary forces to attack the Red guerillas in the mountains -- U Rdalegat3e or no U I delegates. T h e proceedings at t h e Mosco w conference w~re desultory tod y, a lot of representations and proposals without anyt h in of headline importance. Secretary of State Marshall announces that he will ask his colleagues of the Big Focr to invite delegates ot the Austrian governaent to come to Moscow to be consulted. iaturally, tbey will be there on the sub- ject of a peace treaty with Austria -- the ne$otiations concerning which our Secretar7 of State wants to speed up. Th~ ■ atter of a peace arrangeaent with Ger ■ any is ao ■ ething else soaething ■ ore difficult. In fact the latest tonight ia that America Secretary of State Marshall and British Foreign Secretary Bevin hold no hope that is will be possible to write a German peace treaty during the present conference. Members of the American~legation at Mo e cow sre said to believe that the abeolute maximum Germanv can pay is thee ax billion dol.lars -- as rep a ration . Tl-e Soviet figure is twenty billion, t ey o et one ~Alf , MOSCOW - 2 --~--------- ten billion. The Americ ns ridicule the notion that t e Germans can pay anything like that auch. Those of us who remember ■ t the rep ration• • business after World War One will won er about t~••• astronomical figures. World lar one reparation• were expressed in huge figures too. But the total aaount that Geraany really paid was -- zero -- 1 believe. Or didn't Geraany actually coae out ahead they borrowed fro• the Alliea exceeding the aaoanta they paid for reparations. From Germany we have the statement that Hitler ordered the destruction of Paris, utter obliteration of that legended capital of France. Thia -- at the time when the American drive waa aboat to capture ~aris. The Geraan Coaaand~r to whoa the order is said to have been · given ia General Dietl . ~on Choltitz, who right now is writing a hilltor1 of the last da7a of Bazi domination in Paria. Various ~erman Generals are ~ompilin& phaaea of war history, these to be turned over to the American Army, for our own arcllivea. Von Choltitz states that Hitler's order arrived at his headquarters on August eighteenth, lineteen Forty-four, one daJ before the final battle for the French capital began. "It instructed ae, says the Ger an ~eneral to burn the entire city, and every bridge was to have been blown up". Why the• order not obeyed? hy is it IAwas that Paris still stands? ia Von Choltitz exv aina in the following words: "So diers to not indiscriminately bur.n cities. Such action would not have been humanitarian.• (to which he adds: •1 been accused of being sentimental. !uta That, •he goes on, •is re ■ arkable. Did you ever hear of aay General -- particularly a Geraa~ General, being aentiaental? l waa just bein& deceat•, ••1• be:) That, for what it ia worth, i• today'• /alleged Bitler order - declaration about tbeAait1xall■1 ■ix~ila A-- burn Paris. From nationalist China the prediction is that the Communist power in China can be eliminated in three months. The ata eaent ia made by General Chen Cheng, Army Coamander in Chief for Chiang Iai Shek. Following the capture of the Communiat capital, the ~ity of Yenan, the fore•• fighting the Bed• are aweepin& on•• rapidly, ao •• are told, with the forecast that the Chin••• Red araiea can be deatrqyed in three aontba. The great grandson of Queen Victoria, is on his way for a final attempt to retain what Q ueen Victoria fondly considered th~ brightest jewel of her crown -- India, the golden land of Hindustan • .., I t • • was in the great B~itish days around one hundren years ago that Disraeli, the !'rime . Minister with a flare for romance, took the great sub-continent from the East !ndia · coapany and put it under the sovereignty of the Crown, making Queen Victoria -- £mpress of !ndia!'Today that Queen's great grandeon, Lord Louis Mountbatten, left ~ondon to become Viceroy of India and put into effect the decree of independ . ence which the labor government has created. lf need be, he 1 ll be the Viceroy who •ill turn over to the •ndians the complete sovereignty _ of an independent l.ndia -- I• · "the removal of the brightest je w el from the British crown", as Winston \ . ~hurchill cried angrily a few weeks ago. But London still has hope that the Indian people may choose, of their f' own ree will, to remain in the British empire, as a dominion. They think that perhaps Lord Louis ountbatten may be able • iueen Victoria'••~~ to•• persuade them to stay in -- ~•••x~••&• r ~ /jrliPd ■a~ fepre enting the last chance of retaining legended Hindustan, the glowing jewel that liaa Disraeli set in ueen Victoria's crown. ll~BIIG Being here at Seattle, pn Puget Sound, I went fishing this morning, starting out at five a.a. We didn't cathc any fish, and we didn't see that fleet either. ls for the fish, I was taken out on the Sound bJ three of the ■ ighty fi1her ■ en of these parts: Al SaileJ, of Proctor and Gaable, and Loren Stone and Bill Tucker of CBS -- I aean IIBO. But the sal ■on just weren't biting and we trolled in Yain. · The nearest thing to a eilaon •• caught was 1oaething that a fish hook picked up troa the ' botto■ of the Souao. They eaid it was a ■ tar fish. It was about th• color of a salaon, but it looked like an old hot water bottle to ae. A1 for the fleet; the trouble wae -- the Arriving on the Pacific Coasi, on Monday~ the beautiful season of spring was aglow with sunshine. But this morning, at five a.a. a dense fog bad settled down on Seattle. And out on Puget Sound you couldn't • see more than a fe w yards ahead -- in the blindin g mist. If the air had been clear as the proverbial crystal, I'd have had a good look at the great spectacle of the fleet ~t Bremerton -- but all I could see was fog. So, no fish, no fleet. However, I've had word froa laval of ~ :~ers about that array of warships at Bremerton, e laid-UP. fleet. A aigbtJ conc-.ration of sea power is being kept there at Bre ■erton, inactive and waiting -- battleship Weat Virginia, the historic carrier Yorktown, half a dos• other carriers, a large aqua4ron of orul•era. The i■portant thing is -- naval r•••rvea. 7h• lav7 ia preaaing its naval reserve prograa aa one of the ■ oat i ■ portant factors in the defenae of thia nat.im, and places its hope in the aen who served at aea durin1 . World War Two -- and who acqui~ed invaluable amounts of skill. The HavJ is lining the ■ up for the laval reserve, and they are the on•for the job, if it should be necessary to put into action a huge laid-up fleet which represents a ma g nificent surplus of Americ n sea power. After the humble story of fishing in Pu g et ~ound, I can't refrain from adding the story of the rich boa'" and the poor boat. While we were returning, after having caught not a salaon or eYen h a d a bite, up behind us came a magnificent yacht, a palacial~ axa,x,aia■A craft. That was the rich aan•a boat. It a s travelling about twice as . fast•••• were, rushed up along ai side, and cut in front of ua. Weir. our small buat, the poor man's boat, were apprehensive. The rich man's boat wua called the P ~ ':Pc . . ht _e}a~, and 1t a1g ~ - \ seemedt"o4,e ao■e wild aenace of the ocean -- but it was deliberate. So ■• .. curious quirk of huaor or mal•ce. The rich aan'• boat, the Pelagic, cut across in front of u1, and its wake ne ~ rly •~nk us, in the poor man's boat. The bre a ~fast remnant~flying across the cabin, and I thought we were on our w a y to the bottoa of Puget Sound -- as the poor man's boat rocked and swayed.'l' It made me think that, even in the realm of boats, the rich shou l d not be so unkind to the poor . ., • The latest from the universe, ta the vastness of sidereal space is that~he two•hundred inch telescope at Yt. ia ■■ Palomar, California, will begin to peer into the depths of the cosmos b¥ the end of this 1ear,his Was announced tonight by the Rockefeller Foundation, which baa financed that stupendous telescope, the completion of which was delayed by the war. With the Mt: Palomar telescope it ~ill be possible to look into the starry spapes of the universe twice as far as ever before-rRay■ond D. Fosdick, President of the Roc . kefeller Foundation put it in these words: Thia new telescope will project man's sight into the universe two times farther than it has ever gone before -- to a distance of more than a thousand million light- ■ t years away. ight travels at one-hundred-an~ighty_ six-thousand miles a second. Th~ distance that light il travel int ' eve m.onths is a light year. Multi Y that by a thousand millions and You have the TELE COPE - 2 --------- is nc of r o e ,., o t 8 e . . Palom r tele cope will be a l e o ~ impse. And now our ar on t e oil r side o t e continen -- me nin back to you, 1 >n. In o s cow much notice is being ta en of the a rrival of an Am e ricHn news cor r eap u ndent. Not that newsmen are such a rarity at a conference o the Bi Four -- although not as many w re · allo ed to attend as wanted to #,o"!The Sovi e ts, after promiang full freedom of ne s, imposed severe restrictions on the number of correspondents they allowed to go to Moscow, keeping the number to a minimum. The reason given was -- the housing shortage in ~oscow. There simply wasn't enough room, insisted the ~talin government, room to accommodate as any ne s men as the American press and radio thought adequate.1f So the arrival of a new one is most notable -- especially as he had failed to get a place on the accredited list to begin with. Be was, . • • • • 1n fact, away down on the bottom of the list A of the a plicants as suJxxaz ■ rated by the State· Department in ashington.1f Moscow limited the number t~ thirty-six -- and his place on th list was fifty-two. Yet now he ap ~ ~ars in ,oscow, let in by th he? ov i et ov rnment, with a Soviet v i sa.fuo is · n , ur o frien Johannes ' tee -- I now hi •i~ well. A ember of our radio com1entators - ~ - fraternity -- and Johannes is o ten under attack, .I\ accused of Red ~ympathies, party-line propaganda. o you can imagine ho• the news men in Moscow regard ~he appearance of Johannes Steel who was so far down on the ist y t who shows up. Inquiries in the Soviet clipital disclose that Johannes Steel does not have a i■ sl ■ Soviet visa for the conference. He just has a visa givin& him general all-around admittance to Moscow. i certainly sounds peculiar, ai after all that Russian talk about the oscow housing shortage, no room for any more than the severely limited number of ne•• ~~n. So how are they going to house Johannes Steel? aybe ~e Joesn't need a room. aybe i ■••• Johannes has to eep in a Soviet haystack -- I wonder. And so-long-unti to ■ orrow. LTP.1947.03.20i.pdf LTP.1947.03.20ii.pdf