IISENHOWER - WEST ~ . ~ . ~ 2?"- 1 .9 !/,~ -.,p_ ✓ 1---~a President Eisenhower, t o d a y , ~ ~ up to /\. /'-- A Chancellor denauer to decide about th~viet offer. Also - up to West Ge Bl\V on whether to adopt neutralit, or stick along 1th the West. But the President added: "We know Chancellor Adenauer. We have the utmost t'a1th aid conttdence in h , and we know one thing - he will stand bJ his allies and friends . " At h11 news conference, the President waa asked - about the July meeting of the Big Pour, E1senhower-Bden-Paure- Bulgan1n. How long should it last? The Western invitation 11 tor - three days. Which has aroused Rueaian cr1t1ci1111. The arguaent - that a three-day limit would Jeopardize the chances of ucceas. The President replied that he might be 1111ng to remain at the conference with Soviet Russia for five or au days, if it ould help the cause of peace. He won't haggle about a day or two xtra. But he doesn't want the meeting at the "summit" to drag on indefinitely. There should be a EISERHOWER WEST GERMANY - 2 time limit -- up there, on the "swmnlt." He was, likewise, flexible about the question of - the place. The Western allies want Luzanne, in Switzerland. The Soviets have said they prefer - Vienna. Today, President Eisenhower rem . arked - that he 1 a . willing to go "any place, tro■ T1Dabuctu to the North Pole", to further the cause ot peace. No, we can't agree wtth the President on that. Ti■buctu, a, the southern aide of the Sahara Desert, 1a no plaoe to be - tn the middle ot July. It 1 a hotter than Washington - at that tillle ot the year. =-lff::~ .. a. tor the North Pole, that, ~ ~ .s. ~ ( ~ o ' K 1 f e ~ .~ ~ ~ ea-,p. ~ '9 1U11t-4e ,u ' 8 ~ aatw, NP, ' EST GERMANY West Germany ave its first official reaction,today - to the invitation extended by scow. ffertng - an establishment of normal diplomatic and trade relations. nd - inviting Wet German Chancellor Adenauer to oscow for n gotiations. So what does West Germany now reply? At Bonn, an official spokesman stated - that hla goverruaat "welcomes" the Soviet proposal. And "hopes" a meeting between the West German and Soviet leaders will be held. But the spokesman made clear - that no decision will be made until Chancellor Adenauer has consulted with the Westem Allies. The Chancellor is due in Washington next ••k for conferences with President Eisenhower. They'll discuss the Soviet offer. On his wa home fran the United States, Adenauer will stop in London - for similar talks with Prime Minister Eden.~e spokesman added that an Adenauer trip to Moscow was "highly improbable" - until after the to level conference next month, between Soviet Russia and the West. This official statement was made - following a WEST GERMANY 2 three hour Cab net meeting, in which Adenauer discussed the Moscow essage wtth his Ministers. All the political parties of West Germany are hailing the RuH1an otter. W t ~ s own Part:,~ng caution. The Chri1t1an-De1DOCrata 1natsttng -- that the Soviet• are wrong, tr they- think they can break West Germany away n-011 tbe West. Which 18 what M o S C O t r ~ O do. Trying to /t neutralize a '1n1ted Oenaan.v, as little Austria has been naitralized. Pl••• drop the story slugged ~QllIB !l!RI~! and uee the following in ite place. Tonight, the Priaa Minister of India held a for■ al banquet tor the leaders of the So•iet Union. lehru, pr iding oTer the cere ■ ony at his Mosco• BabaaaJ So aaye R dio lo cow. Accordin1 to th• broadcaat, thru1hche• and Bal1anin ••r• present. That••• natural, they bein1 the two top fi1are1 in the So•i•t Union. But the radio add.a a na ■ . lalenko•. banquet too. ~ that haan•t been in tbe new ■uoh lately - A The :f'oraer So•iet P~••i•r •••thereat the The President made an appeal to Congress, today, to go ahead with hie military reserve program. Which haa been pigeon-holed - because ot a dispute about an anti-segregation claus~. The President told his ne a conterence that the reserve bill wu urgently necessary tor national defense - and exprea ed his disapproeal or the inclusion or the segregation 1aaue. Which aroused the opposition ot Southern legislators. MIIINDM WAGE The Senate passed a bill, today, to hike the national minimum wage from seventy-five cents an hour to one dollar an - - hour. President Eisenhower advocates a ninety cent-an-hour -- ------- bill, and today renewed the recommendation. But the senate hiked the ante. S'l'BEL Word from the teel industry - opposing" guaranteed f-- - - - annual age. Joseph Larkin, chtet negotiator tor Bethlebe■ Steel, sava his Compan.v will not voluntarily make the kind or contract that the Pord Motor Company made with the Auto Workers Union. The steel industry will go into negotiations with the lteel Workers Union ot the C.I.O., but 111 discuss questions ■t,,ww•t•s ot wages only. Excluding - a guaranteed anrmal wage. ~ ,5t.,Q-,d2,€L-tfp ~~ ~ . BRITAIH - STRIKE London reports - a step forward in settling the national railway strike. s oday, the Union and the Uovernaent issued a stateaent aylng - they could negotiate with ''mutual confidence" and "g~d ta:1.tngThe point about this 1s, that / the Unions had been accusing the GOYerrnent ot reneging on I rcaisea, while the Government had been accusing the Union of ■isrepreaentation. ffley both dropped MIi charge and counter-charge - which, aa,1 Lonc]on, should expedite a settlement. CHURCHILL There were cheers in the British House of C0111Dons, today, as an wly re-elected M.P. - was sworn in. Sir Winsto Churchill, -fti 1'11 ~~ taklng hie place as a "back bencher." After he resigned as Prime M1n1ater, he droppe~back into the ranks. But - didn't appear in arliament, until today. Following - the recent election. He took the same seat he occupied - before he ever becaae a Prtme M1n1ater. Dating back to the daye - when Winston Churchill was a "stormy petrel" in the House ot C01111ona. Two old political enemies, but pereonal friends - sworn in togethet'. 'l'he repo tie that the seventy-two year old Attlee will soon Join the eighty . ear old Churchill - in retirement. Attlee to step down, they say - as chief or the opposition. I suppose that the roly-poly Sir Winston was all the more chipper, today, because he had a good niglt or sleep. CHURCHILL ... 2 Which might not have been the case, tr he had been told - tbat hi wife, Lady Clementtne, had sustained an accider it, last night. She wae in their Lo don home, while Churchill spent the night at "Checquers", in the country. The accident - a broken wrist, when ahe fell down the stairway. ~ . 4J J Bu ~ • t let them into her husband or the ■iahap. Rot wanting to disturb ht■ reet - the night before taking his place in Parl18118nt aa a "back bencher." BRITISH CARRIER British admirals.A.. ~aboard an aircraft carrier you should have "birds of war." Speedr planes, which you might call - 0 eagles of the s . " or maybe - "the hawkl ~ o ~ " lllt not - parakeets. Yet, aboard a giant 11 carrier they've discovered - tour hunired and aeventy-ttve parakeets. t2P<R- ~ - Ten tillea as man.v - as there are plane■• Which baa c&L1aed ;t l'Ullpus at the harbor of Portsmouth. H.M.S. Centaur returned trom a cruise in the Mediterranean. One sailor - reporting 111. The doctors gave a diagnosis. The sailor stricken with - "palttacoata." C only known ae - "parrot feve ' r. " tour hundred and seve · nty-tive parakeets - which the sailors had picked up in the Mediterranean. It's against British naval regulations for sailors to have an., sa•tr1ft pet! aboard warships. Especially - pets that cause an outbreak of parrot feve · r. SEOUL - RIOT The e waa rioting in Seoul today - ~ b trying to storm the U.S.illbasay. Ant1-Amer1oan? Not exactly. It waa an anti-Japanese demonstration. The Koreans retain a lot of enmity toward the Japanese - who were their overlords, until the end ot World War Two. Proteata - against American aid to Japan. So, today, ~ a crowd started - a protest march. 'l'bree thousand veterans of the Korea War • plus embers of Lett Wing unions. They went shouting and storming to the otfictal ■ana1on or Preaident Sy:npan Rhee - but were headed ott by a atrong torce ot police. Whereupon, one section of the ob went ■arching to the U .s .Embassy. There the police eatabllahed a barr1:eade, and the battle was on. The police .. swinging ritle butts ... toque l the disorder. JAPAI Over in Japan - a U.S. naval acarnal. The . central figure, a Japane , ,e beauty o . t twenty-two. Who cultivated the acquaintance ot rioan sailors. Reaul~, six thousand dollars' worth ot radio equipaent - m1as1ng. Four aa1lors are being questioned, am tive Japanese bave been arrested, together with rour Koreans. Cb1et 1u1pect - tbe Japanese girl. Who see d ambitious to be - "the belle of the tleet." They say the gang used her ae a l11re - perau. dinl sailor boy trtenda to steal radio sets. The alx tho11sand. dollars' worth - diacoyered 1n a Japanese village. Where - tbe loot waa hidden. PAmTIKE In the Rear East . , a powerful broadcasting station has begun a campaign. r ~ The giat ot hich is - declare war on Israel. The tat1on ia in Egypt - partly financed, t ey say, br the Egyptian goverrnent. Propaganda - urging the Arab states to start a preventative war. Last night, tor example, the radio station said - that if the Arab countries don't attack Israel, then Israel will attack the. ■oale are warned - to prepare for war. Recently, the Tel Aviv - gover111ent has been replylnl to a belligerent press campaign in Egypt. C lling it - · 7/_f- ~ ~"'- "bombast." Arguing~he regiae in Egypt i~liaky,,Aueing war talk, to bolster 1t1 precarious power. SOUTH ANBRICA Th• Southern Hemisphere is having - a roaring onaet ot Winter • .Argentina reports bitter cold, down to ten below, with raging blizzards - 1nde at seventy-five ■ilea an hour. Glo°"v days for the pa1t couple of weeks - not a ray ot 111111h1ne in thirteen da.vs. One result - an ep1deatc ot the tlu. Winter doesn't start, ofticially, down there tor another two ween. But, unoft1c1ally, Jack Prost, the snow aan, and the ator11 king, have already arrived - below the Equator. TAVERN An odd story from Chicago tells of a tavern which 1.s a ort of college for screwballs. People, ho hav - e weird ideas to spout, come in - and make speeches. Lecture ro011 - provided. The proprietor, Slim Brundage, who also works as a house painter, sa,-s - his screwball customers are 11 ai-tt1ta, writers, intellectuals and college proteeaors." Sounds like - a tine lot ot eccentrtca. What attracted me to the story, today, was - a tew 1aple1 ot the wit and humor. S11.m provides a blackboard, w 1 th plenty of chalk - so that, i t a cuat0118r thinkll ot a gag, he can write it out. So one screwball went to the blackboard and wrote: "Chicago has the best politicians - that money can buy." Another scribbled the following: "She was good tor J · waan \.t;, nothing, but sh'4.e.uiS,A bad tor nothing." But, alas, there's always a disillusion. One example of humor _ an ancient 11.ne I'd heard ~ears ago. Going this ,.,av: "Work is the curse or the drinking classes." But it's a good one, g ood and screwball - - even if old. C ADA - llfDIANS In Canada, two thousand Indians will have a chanoe to vote in an election tomorrow - a provincial election in Ontario. And we all know - what a precious right the 't.anchiae "- 11, the right to vote. But those Indians won't avail the•elve1 of it, at all. They'll &tJY away trom the p lls - boycotting • the election. C a.. They A" tribes n of the Six Nations - t Mobawlm, the Oneidas, the Tuecaatoru, the Cayugaa, . the Seneccu am tlw Onondagas. Whole chieftain, today, 1t instructed the tribal •■bera - don't vote 1. II• 111£1 ■ 7 r N,■• H #brr , •1011 rteit 111 twczz : . ~ = ~ h e y tght, event11ally, bec011e tull fledged citizAna ot Canada. Which, in turn, 1.aht cause them to lose thetr old constitution - under the confederacy of the Six Nationa. A treaty - granting the■ tribal autonomy. Instead of t ■ll••• •• voting for pale face candidates, r "/ they prefer - the traditional Council of the Tribes, the old-fashioned Indian pow-wow.