SUEZ - . . -DELCO. TUESDAY, JtJLY 1, 1956 The United States has fro2en all asaeta of the Egyptian Governnent - in this country. Also - all aaaeta of the Suez Canal Company. Meaning - that nothing belonging, either to F.gypt or the Caapany, can be withdrawn, with011t a license from the Treasury iepartment in Washington. This free ting ot use ta - temporary. a •aaure of precaution - while th~ crisis over the Suez C~al 11 1n an acute stage. At the same tllle, Secretary ot State t t 111111 Dulles is off to London - on an urgent ■1aa1on. Sent by President Eisenhower - t o I ; Iii a conference ot the Weatern Big Three. Representing the United States - in di1cua11ona witb Britain and France. The word in Washington 1s that Secretary Dullea 1a being sent_ to exert a ■oderating influence. Urging - that the • British and the French retrain trom precipitate action against Egypt. Today, both London and Paris continued in a ■ood of ff SUEZ - 2 - high indignation. The British government - ordering warships to the entrance of the Suez C nal. From both aidea _ the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. Egypt retorting_ by bam1ng British Government, in addition, ordered all ~1tiah merchant vessels, which might use the Suez Canal, to take aboard extra ,-. supplies of fuel. Ready to det.,our aroum the southern tip ot Africa, if necessary. "In view or the uncertainty ot the situation," says London. In p ris today, the Prench lational A11111bly voted a ten minute suspension or business - aa a gesture• To show "solidarity" behind an " energetic Western reply to the Egyptian seizure of the Canal. But what about Moscow - which has been backing EQPt with a barrage of propaganda? URUSHCHEV Khrushchev, today - held forth on the Suez C a nal crisis. His tone - mild and cautious. Khrushchev urging_ a "common sense ' handling ot the problem raised by the BIJptian seizure of the canal properties. ( He warned - that a ■iahandlirw of the dispute might bring the danger ot war. But aaid he trusted in the "cOIIDlon sense, experience and political soberness of the statesmen ot Britain and Prance. 11 The Secretary ot the Russian C0111Un18 t Party repeated the Moscow line - that the Bgptiana were quite ri&ht> lD nationalizing - the Suez Canal, ixpropriating the Suer canal Company. But - •-•■ "'4 lilrlll •••• adv111ng aaainat "rashness and haste. ") In L J ndon, the tenor or the Khrushchev reaarka are taken to support the belief - that Soviet Ruaala is anxious for an "international solution". The great powers - Joining in working out a settlement. Moscow, ot course, to play a ha nd in the game. 1 Ses the Suez C a nal. One angle ts - that soviet Russ au Interested - in keeping it in opera t ion. llJRMA News from Burma - vague and undec1sive. The govel'Tllent at R n go on - laying down the Chinese Red invasion. Reports, earlier in the day, picture a considerable force ot C01111unists - the pushing acrossABurrnese northern frontier. In What seemed_ a planned occupation. Arousing fears - that Burma might beCOIINt a second Korea. The next v1ct1a - on the C01a1L1niat list. All of which was - ironical. Burma - being one or "neutralist· nations. Refusing - to becme a ■e11ber ot the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization. Preferring - not to take sides against either East or West. So here was Burlla, with all its neutralism - invaded by fteij China. That's the background for the latest tro11 Rangoon. Stating - the invasion stories are exaggerated. The governaent r a e r e l ~ h a t "saae Chinese troops" have established outposts in the northem state of Wa. The Rangoon dispatch adding - the border between Bul'lll& and China ts "wnt1r• poorly defined. r Andless friction in the past. So,maybe, source - o ., ing some disputed area. the Chinese are occupy The aimese llJRMA - 2 believing - it's more than a mere caae of bl d un er1ng across an uncertain border. In any event, the Rangoon governnent ada1ts - it ia "seriously concerned. " And - 1s taking up the Chinese incursion - with the government at Peking. T he state of Wa...- is head-hunt1fii country. Prillitive savage tribes.-~oing on head-hunting raids at plowing tille each year. A barbaric superstition - comect~d with ruining the crops. A sinister country to invade - u~le11 the Chine1e Reds want to lose their beads. It you wanted to •--• - a grill jest. ( In Washington, Senator _ Nike 111anat1eld, a ae■ber of the Senate Foreign Relations ca1111ttee, llJ'gel euraa - to appeal to the Security council of the U .M. Also - the Senator thought there should be a prompt aeeting of SEATO. Even though - Bur■a is not a member of that organization.) TIBET From Tibet - a tale of savage doings. When a peace conference w ~ s held - between Chinese Reds and the leaders of the Khamba tribe. Jhich tribe, in a wild, ■ounta1noua area _ has been in revolt against the daa1nation of the CCIIIIUn1sts. The Reds - using warplanes to baab 1h&11ba villagea. But negotiations were opened for a peaceful end ot the revolt - and R e d envoys, with seYeral buoc ~ ed Chinese soldiers, proceeded to a ■eeting place with ltnallba leaders. Negotiations were going on when, suddenly, a sw&l'II ot tribal warriors - assailed the peace conference, in a surprise attack. overwhelming the Chinese - and killing them all. This comes in a brief dispatch, tr011 the 'ti be tan , ,, capital of Lhasa. Adding - that ca.un1at military forces •lth armored cars are laying siege to at..x lh&11ba strongholds. And the tribe vows - they'll fight to the last ■an . ... NEPAL In the city of Katmandu, capital of the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal - a new organization has been formed. C lled - The Nepal-United States-Friendship Association. Its purpose - to strengthen the ties of good-will between the Nepalese and the American people. The dispatch tr011 Kataandu says - members of the Association include the most distinguished personalities in the secluded land. The secretary, JlanindraraJ Shreshtha - paying high tribute to the United States. Now - why should Nepal, the her11it kingd011 at ; he root of the Himalayas, be so enthusiastic about this country ot ours? Well, I can tell you. The reason is - U.S.O.JI. The tJnited States Operations Ml&Sion, a technical aid group sent out by the state Department in Washington. I saw a good deal ot the technical aid ■1111on, when I was out in Katmandu - as nne of the representatives of Presidant Eisenhower at the coronation ot King Mahendra. Having long talks - with Paul Rose, head of the Mission - Strong minded agricultural expert front a soft spoken, llfAL - 2 Inde p endence, Vi rginia. In far off Nepal - with his wife and four little daughters, all of whoa made a fine im , ression on the King and his people. The Mission - 6 ivin the epalese technical aid in questions of a riculture, education, geology, sanitation, and 80 on. Th staff, to p flight - including a rist rate geolo g i s t, whom 1 told you about in a broadcast from there. And - H~ rman Holliday, the one tiae Negro basKetball star on the Harlem Globetrotters - now in charge of the Rapti Valley Develop2ent; where they are bringin g under cultivation a large area of sheer wilderness - eighty-th o usand acres of elephant grass, wrich stands twelve feet high, in which live - wild ele hants, rhinos, and huge tigers. In over - a ll charge of the Mission - froa uelhi, cl We left at New Delhi. He goes up oward H o uston, whom to epal fre _ u ntly, to look th1 ngs over. I ' n a iner cro d. 11 ustr at ing t he f c t - t. our ' t te e p~ rtment may h ve weak ots, b ut . it s on stron ints. ike the U.S • • M. out e re t . e f o t of the i II a 1 ay as • here - a , { e pa 1- . i d t tes-Friendshi p Association has been formed. CLIMBER From the Alp s - news of tragic irony. Telling of a mountain c l imbing expedition, you might k as - what are the Alps besid e the H imal aya s? The ans i t wer s - hat two mountaineers w ere killed, scal ing a p eak only eleven thousand feet high. One of them - prominent in the conquest of Mt.Everest three years ago. A nd Everest is - more than twenty-nine thousand feet high. hen, in Nineteen Fifty-Three, -Sir Edmund Hillary and the Sherpa, Tensing Norkay, reached the topmost pinnacle of Everest -the way had been prepared by a party that reached a level within four hundred feet or the sunnit. In that party - Tom Bourdillon, a scientist in rocket research. And a mountaineer - by avocation. Tom Bourdillon - a member of the supporting party, while Hillary and - Tensing made the final ascent. Well, after that epic exploit, the rocket research scientist went on mountait[,ering - for the sport of it. With the Jaegihorn in the British Climber R.M . Viney, h8 tac~led CLIMBER - 2 "Rernese Obe rlan. oth - killed in a fall. Tom Bourdillon, after twenty-nine thousand foot Mt. E verest - no falling victim to a mere eleven thousand foot pigmy. - BOBO - Mr s . 1 B o 0 11 Rockef e ller's lawyer says he's considerifl! - legal action. Following the incident of yesterday in which h e , and Mrs. Rockefeller and two others were arrested in rkansas. "Bobo II having gone to the Winthrop Rockefeller Estate there - demanding to see her son, seven-year old Winthrop ?aul Rockefeller. There was an argument - followed by arrests for disturbing the peace. Mrs. Rockefeller claims that police used violence - and there may be a lawsuit. 0 KEF R Kef a u v er - out of the race.' Today, the ~ nator from Te nn e sse ithdrew from the p resid en tial competition. Throwing his support - to dlai 0t evenson. K e f r.~ ver stepping out_ in fa vor of the r iv a l 1 th whom he fought such bitter battles in the primaries. H'therto, he had said - ne 1 d be in it until the end. So it as a surprise, when he called a hasty news conference, today, and said he was asking.his own supporters to u give their backing to ·tevenson: In doing so, he took a sideswipe at Governor Harriman ~- ~ , willing to go into the primaries. With Harriman - staying out of the primaries. The senator had garnered one hundred and sixty-seven and a half convention votes, and the question is - how many of these can he deliver to Stevenson? The Harriman forces• will any of the Kefauver ballots make a fight - seeking to win as m as Possible. KEF tNER 2 - - I f a ll th K e fa uv er str e n th houl go t n Stev enson, he ould need only ei ty-two and a half more - for nomination on the first ballot. It ould make him - virtually unbeatable. There 's been talk of the Tenn ssee Senator - for se c on d p l ac e on the Stevenson ticket. Wh ich may or may not - be the case. Kefauver, today - giving no indication. He said: " That ould be a bridge I ui would have to cross - if and when I ge t there • " He added - he had not discussed his decision with d II d 1 " Stevenson, and has ma e no ea s. Having made up his mind - at only two o'clock this afternoon. ~oni h , Ad lai St v nson is jubilant - praising Ke e fauver in lo w ing terms. While Harriman says - he'll keep fighting until the e nd. "Until the last ballot ls counted," says the e York Governor. e r , a m e i a l re p ort concerning a bdominal surgery a n d it a ab a r n g o n th e presidential race. But_ whom does it on c ern ? , you u e ssed wrong. A medical report on A dl ai S t e ven s on - about his operation of two years ago. The hystcian - Dr. Leander Riba of Chicago. Who treated Stevenson for kidney stones, and performed the operat1 in May, Nineteen Fifty-Four. Last week, . dlai dropped in at the doctor's office, for a medical examination, routine. nd since then the Doctor has been collating the X-ray pictures, the blood teats. Now - sending Adlai the result.· Satisfactory - Stevenson having made a first class recovery from the operation. u th cont rol d hffi n II t i o n 1 sen says - he's ready to accept a ny e Re ublican arty lea ders may inflict on him. es lub in W · shington today, he repeated his ti o - th a t Governor erter of Masvachusetts would make a stronger c a ndidate than Vice-President Nixon. As a running mate - for r e sident E isenhower. said - he expected, what h called, a 'ba rrage of high level criticism." Which certainly has descended on him. ' And he challenged the hostile G. o. P. leaders in these ~ords: "Punish me, if you wish. " So to what Siberia will Stassen be sent? Which salt mine? That question was placed promptly before o.o.P. ational Chairman Leonard Hall, chief of the pro-Nixon forces. His reply - given in an interview with United Press Fox Motietone Ne s. "There will be no punishment for Harold Stassen", said the Chairman. Adding_ that he has "no quarrel" with Stassen. A nd wants - '' an open convention. ' ' Siberia- for Harold - and no salt so there'll be no - 2 min thou g h - his official ob 1 t of o o p l e be lieve he won' go back to White o use exert on disannament. From which - he has been gi ven a leave -of-abs ence by President ; isenh o ,er. (2J ~ ~ ) ~--- ~ 40 t..L } l ~ i L - ~ - }/ LTP.1956.07.31i.pdf LTP.1956.07.31ii.pdf