--r --- ' . , r Ill) <gyprICJ ' Here •a the latest. The Credentials Coarlttee hu handed Taft another present- . voting to seat the Georgia delegation which favors the Senqor. lb' a vote of thirt,y t,o twenty-one, the Collllittee tos~ out. a pro-Eisenhower delegation. ltlking it Success Jaber Two for Taft in the prooeeclinga todq. --- TAFT - DELEGA T ES Taft lost a few votes of delegate strength today four shifting from the Senator to General Ike. Two of these were Negro delegates, who said they disliked the stand that Taft was taking on the question of racial rights. So, they were going over to the t side of t:m General. The other two were in the ~rkanaae delegation. Today, the Chairman stated that a couple of Taft 1upporter1 from Arkansas had changed their mind1, and would vote for the nomination of General Ike. So that makes a slight cha.nge in the line-up of delegates. A tabulation from the United Pre11 give, five hwidred and forty-three committed to Senator Taft. Four hundred and forty-seven - pledged to General Eisenhower. All of which puts increasing emphasis on the delegations with favorite sons - like the seventy Californians, who are backing Governor Warren. In addition to the favorite son delegations, there are_ TAFT - D LEGA T ES - 2 one h un r e d a nd nine, unco m mitt e d. F a vorite sons and unco m mitted - equal the balance of power. The Eisenhower commanders are bubbling with confidence. But,on the basis of the figures, it ~'dAl-ef looks lik~the closest kind of competition - when ~~~ the ConventioA••••• •• ,,,_,Athe •• candidate. r CONVENTION ~ 2 J ~ ~ ~ 4 ' 4 This wa a day o! oratory. - a-t~Convent1on. Ot course, the top flight oration was last night, when ~~ General Douglas MacArthur gave~ keynote speech. Today, the Party spellbinders carried on - one speech aft r another, from opening to adjournment. Tonight L~;t;&J ~ brings a climax, with anoier eadliner - former President Herbert Hoover. What he will have to saJ ~~ be of 1,8-NM..A import anc e 1 ta--11t1"1.41r"'ttTl!MIRn--:nJ-~r--'nl'~ • ~ '1,s the,,( e der statesman of the G.O .P., I ttbsrt R•••er w111 make an effort for harmony, an end ~ to the feuds,Aclosing of the ranks. Which 11 auch needed - the Taft-Eisenhower duel being what it 11. The plethora of oratory thi1 afternoon . · was not because the delegates yearned for eloquence. Wo, the, did not simply demand unlimited doses phraseology - , ,w the Grand Old Party • • of t h a t ~ ~ A •••l4 defeat the " " foe, come •ovember. The speeches were made and ttas■u listened to - because there wasn't much else to do. A fill-in, on a day made 1dle by that battle over the delegations 1n dispute. 1 CONVENTION - 2 The controversy was before the Credentials Committee, which was on the job all day, deliberating, deciding. The Committee was to h a ve made its report to the Convention some time this afternoon - but that was a vain hope. The announcement was that - more tlme was needed, in that bitter argument whioh has ths Convention in a stalemate right now. ft C ilt?■ela,l.lJ, .he delay in the Credentials Committee 11 holding up ~ reports of other committees, 1noludingAone on the platform. And all - will have to go over, until tomorrow. that Credentials Committee: They had hoped they mlght persuade the group to agree with them - ln refusing t o • aeat sixty-eight Taft delegates from the Southern 1tate1 ~ / ..,..~the Credentials Committee turned out t{be as firmly AA) 1n the control of the Ohio Senator . . . other segments - of the Party organization. First came - Jlorida. The Committee voted to seat sixteen delegates for Taft, one for Eisenhower, one uncommitted. Which upholds, - > - - C O N V E N TIO N - .. pr e ci s el y , t h e de c i s ion made by t h e R epublican Na tional Co m m ittee - that stron g hol d o f Ta!t control. ~ ~ _di ~-~ is a si g n o f w h a 1 s to come - th~ ,,A Committee virtu a lly certain to vote in favor of other Ta!t d elegates in dispute. Including that big g est bone of all the contention - the Ta!t delegation from Texas. Supporters of General Ike won a single oono e seionfrom the Credentials Committee today - when they put through a motion to have radio and telev111on at the Committee proceedings. The liaenhower h1&h command hailed this - as a victory for the American people, ae well as for radio and T.V. Well, maybe a9, but it didn't keep the Credential ■ Committee from giT1n& Taft the decision on Jlorida - with more of the same to come . All - throwing the Convention schedule into ~ confusion. They ...-e expected to wind up Thursday nighi - ~ but are sure to go on through Fri da y, maybe longer. Aa A of right now, the hope is to b egin the ballotin for a C ON VENTION - 4 nomin e e - on Wednesday ni g ht. The ~ t in a hurry, ~ s el e ct~he candidate in a f finish 1t few ballots. But there's a likelihood that the balloting, on that mos t important question of all, will be decided on ;l fter which, the vice-presidential candidate will have to be chosen. VJ MacART H UR AD D R E SS At this time last evening, I had an idea th&t I might be a bit embarrassed on this program tonight - the way a false prophet is embarressed. I ventured to make a guess about the keynote speech to be given by General Douglas MacArthur & few hours l&ter. w&a that, while he would attack the Adminietr&tioD, &11 &long the line of ~omest1c and foreign policy, he not &ssai . l Pres1clant Truman peraona.lly, would not his na■e in the keynote assault. Well, you know how 1t 11 with a prophet - he's u■ u&lly wrong. 80 I thought I a1ght • • be red in the face tonight. But the reasoning turned out okay. I figured on the fact that General MacArthur, though be dld nol . ~ - --- .. o*.() ... wear uniform last n ~ t , ~ ~ r e d from act1v.e 4ut, So - as a matter of military propriety, he would not criticize hi£ Commander-in-Chief - noi by name. Woul~ not blast away at - Truman. Well, he didn't mention tlla name of Truman once - burling ·his cannonade at that impersonal entity - the Administration. The powerful criticism of Truman was there, of course - but, by 1mnl1oat1on - 0 MacARTHUR ADDR ES S - 2 Which, in a way, helped to keep the keynote speech on an upper level of - generalities. The broad meaning was there - with plenty of anti-administration thunder. But no namin g of names, and not much that wa1 detailed or specific. Bot in the vein of and vituperation. /~otheJ All of which recalled, in & way,Alaalxalaaa famous accusation - 1enowned 1n · h1story as a bill of bitter particulars. French •ovellst Smile Zola - ln Dreyfuss case. Bis famous diatribe - •J 1 Accu1e.• wa1 fn a style something llke thi1: •1 accuse the President of the Republic . of 0 being a liar and of commiting per~ury. I accuse the Minister of War of falsifying documents and of being a forger. I accuse, I accuse• - 1n repeated refrain, with 1pecific charges in venomous detail. Actually, I don't ••t~•K• rsmember precisely what•s in that historic - 'J'Accuse.• But it went something like that. .---1, Rough-and-tumble in~ fighting - and, in this MacARTHUR ADDRESS - 3 country, 1s there &nyone who excels &t that sort of pol1t1c&l free-for-&llT Well, som~ of us might remember the Nineteen Forty-Eight presidential oampa gn. Re ■e ■be how he gave •em - old HarryT But General Douglas MacArthur wae on & hlgber plane - and we could only wiah that the A■ ericu Toter, would ollab up onto that higher plane. U.N, At the United Nations today, the Amerlca.n d elegation introduce• a resolution of censure a g ainst Soviet Russia - for those charges of germ warfare. We asked the Security Council to brand those preposterou ~ accusations as - •without s ubstance, and !alee.• - Well, it's a good idea. That b&o!_)erlolog1oal nonsense 1a •without 1ubstance, and ' f&l1e• &11 rlghl. Idlotlc, in fact. But the resolution won't gel anywhere, ,ust going~ no place at all. Or rather - it'• running right into a Soviet veto. TD• American delegate, propo1ing the re1olut1on, was followed by Soviet Bepresentative Nallt. Who \pok twenty minutes to aay that he would not part1clpate ln deliberations on the resolution, and would vote &g&in11 it. Ma Meaning, Soviet veto. If a 11&,ority on the Security Council should pass it, as 11 sure to happen - the Red veto-vote Will kill 1t. IAPN! Japan report,1 a bad 0c11munist, riot, with a 110b of Beda on a rampage, at IIIOJ a, the third larga1t city in Japan. A tbouaand Reda olaahad with foroes of police, and a tbrN and a halt hour battle was on. Iago.ya, bf the n,, bu a turn 01 reamiaoenoe. I reoall it in the J1- Doolittle stoi,, one of the first plaoea aighted bf the Doolittle raidera 1a tbl tint bollbing of Toqo. I I ro I ___.,, FRANCE And now, folks, here's the big political headline - announcing the crucial vote. The winner - Pinay. In the rrench Rational Aasembly, today, Premier Antoine Pinay won a vote of confidence on the laet bl& iesue facing his government - a question of ecoao■ lo policy. You may not have heard of this bit of aewa - burled by the political exo1teaente Mn in Chloago. But it ia more 1aportant than anything at the ConTealloa here today. It mean• that Premier P1nay ataye firml7 la power through the reet of the aumaer - that a1tonl1h1a1, little known 1n4uetr1al1at, who came out of the polltloal AG nowhere, / u t /\ bas been able· to give rrance the neare ■ I thing to a stable ministry that France hae had since lbe end of the Second World War. Time and again, he h&a demanded a vote of confidence - or he'd quit. Today, as the Bation&l Assembly takes time out until autuan, Pinay came to the climax of a final test - and won it. In the all-star game toda,, the winner was - the leather Uan. The contest between the two ajor leagues was washed out. After five inni ng s. Ju s t enough - to aake it a legal ball game. The Rational. Iaague WOil - a SOON of three to two. The aargin of victory oonsisted of home-runa by Jaclcie BobiDsOll, of tbe Brooti,u Dodgen, . a /J- Saar of the Qlioago CGba. But it waa wt going all alcng. It wu reining all aorning, and the gue was held up for tnat,-two aiautea, beoause of a•••• downpour. Then, there ware fift 1mtns,., ad the olouda opeaed on Hlii.adelplia. Sou. latianal i...- beat, the Aaerioan I.ape. Bat, U. ••the Ila heat tball both. - ~ ON YENTION - SIDELIGHTS HerP are a c o uple of Convention sideli g hts. They have t o do with those brilliant - television 11ght1 These, glaring from overhead, have been getting into \he eyes of dele g ates. And so, today, soorea appeared, wearing eye-shades. But - political eye-shades. Marked - with the name - Taft, Supporters of the Ohio Senator taking advantage of the lighting a1tuat1on - to put in a boost for their candidate. But the brilliance of 1llum1nat1on wee ahlnlAI in the eyea of 11senhower supporters and Taft enthualaat alike. So, shortly after the appearance of the Tat\ eye-shade ■ , ca.me - the 11aenhower atraw hats. Boore ■ ot delegate• wearing swnmar-t1me atraw 11da, with re4, • white and blue band. And'- on top, three letter• of th~ alphabet, I-K-1. The General's niotnaae, blazsoned on the flat-top of straw hate - le a sight for the galler1ea to s e e - ~ ilJ -~ ~ rl/, - - - Another sight, for those who get there early, consists of - arm-bands, and changing colors. Which 1• out an illustration of the trouble they have in keeping~ - ga.te-cr;\~hers. CONVENTION SIDELIGHTS - 2 The Assistant Sergeants-ai-Arms, who control the crowds, wear colored arm-bands. There are one hundred and ninety of them - and what's to keep gate-crashers from putting on arm-bands, and getting as Sergeants-at-Arms! Which would••• enable the ■ to let all their ~ale int The answer - the color of the arm-ban4• la changed every day. Nobody know• in advance what the color will be, and that stops the would-be gate-cra1her I Ivery morning, the Sergeants-at-Ar•• aeaemble, one hun4re4 and ninety strong, 1n the Convention Ball, for what is 0a1led - •the changing of the arm ban4a.• They get a different color. Today, for example - a brilliant green, with gold Ietter1ng. The gat e -crashers being what they are, the Convention has to have that morning ceremony - The changing of the arm-bands. ,~ ..,,,,,,,, C O NVENTI O N P RFUME Over in Europe, the n ew spapers are payin c !ose attentio ~ to the Republican Convention - as naturally • they would. Europeans like Ike - se(~ h1m a number a~vocate of the policy of Am r1can aid for the Western Europe. rore1gn reporters, by the battalion, are here in Chicago, coverin g the big political circus - and theJ &f a bit puzzled by our American highjinta, as foreigner• always are. The rrench newapapera,, for example, comment wllh aoae bewilderment on what they consider - a •oonfuae4 feat1va1.• They also take notice of - the at ■oaphere. The air - surrounding Convention Hall, the Chicago atookyarda. Leave it to the rrench to . find a tactful way of expres~ing it - with finesse. Today, one Parisian newsp ~ per put it 1n these words: • 'Chicago' is an Indian word meaning - strong, pow e rful. It is said city was named because of the odor of wil d garl1o near the river - and,• concludes the Parisian paper, •Chicago CONVENTION PERFUME - 2 still merits its name.• Saying it with French polt\ene1 strong, powerful, the odor of wild garlic. Well, actually, the effluvium from the stockyards 11 & lot stronger and more powerful than any garlic, wild or ~ 4~an.t ~~~ "'""' ~ -e-&J ..:t-"1 ~ Q.,. J _ ~ .>-L-Lt-t:-"'t,