GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: Today was signature day out here in San Francisco. The symbol o f the occasion was that useful implement kno as the fountain pen. Delegates one after another have been putting their naaes on the Charter of the United Rations. light hours of signing and they are not trough with it yet. At the present time tbe7 are waiting for President Truaan, w o tonight, as 7ou know, is bringing the San Francisco conference to a close. The President to make an address in which he will express his hope and this nation's hope that the charter will be an effective inatruaent in serving the peace of the z ■iix world. le hear that the Preaident will submit the docuaent to the Senate on Monday. The word is that he is going to make a personal appearance shortly after noon and will address the upper house, the Saante, recommending a prompt 0.I. of the Charter of the United LEAD - 2 .-.--- Nations. Bow quickly is the Senate likely to ct? The best information along that line se , ms to be that the law makers will take perhaps a mo~tb. For two weeks the charter •ill be considered in Coaittee bearings and the• there will be another two weeks of d~bate on the floor of the Seaate. There is littlu doubt that it will pass. That's the general opinion and it was made unanimous today by Senator lheeler of Montana, long known as the lo. 1 Isolationist. In lasbington, Senator lheeler stated that there would be no organized fight against the lorld Security Organization so tar as he is concerned. And he added that so far as he knows, no other Senator plans what be calls, •organized opposition.• Former Secretary of State Cordell Hull today issued a plea for prompt ratification. From a sick bed in Maryland, the former Secreta~y telegraphed con- grautlations ~o his successor, Secretary of State Stettinius. Mr. Bull stated that the charter would, CHARTER - 3 ------ - in bis world, ftlive in history as one oi the great milestones in man's upwar d c li mb to a truly civilized existence." I'm glad I happened to return home by way of San Francisco, in time for today's closing sess i on of the United Hation'sConference. It is stimulating to come straight from where a war is going on to a city where men of good will fDoa all over the world are discussing peace and doing something about it. Doubly sti ■ ulating to arrive here in tiae to hear the delegates vote their approval of th• work of the Conference. l ■xsi■■ The approval of the World SecutitJ Charter will be followed by the setting up of a te ■porary com■ ission to act until the United Nations' Organization is all set to function. f took a wvunded aartne with me to the session in which the voting took place, Bill Murray of tbe famous let Division, A Marine for nine rears, shot through the chest, be bas just flown in from Ckinawa i at the re- ceiving hospital be~e in San Francisco~ And I bad just come from Okinawa too. Well • ■•i coincidences are rather commonplace in warti ■e. Wherever you go around the world these days run into old friends, and that's what happened to my aarine friend Bill. Be hadn't any credentials you to co ■e down here where I a■ broadcasting now, but, with that double row of ribbons and the Purple Heart with an extra cluster, I figured I ought to be able to do aoaething about it. But, I tidn't haYe to. I took Bill to the United Press office, in the building next to the San Francisco lar Me ■orial Opera Bouse, to see if •e could borrow some credentials fro ■ a correspondent. And the first fellow we ■et was a wounded United Press lar Correspondent - one of the best, too - Bob Mill r. Bob caught up with a bullet in Bor■ andy. But before that he was the first correspondent in ~ ction with that sa■e aarine first iiliii• diviiion at Guadalcanal. Those two fellows __ they fell in each others aras. In fact, in a s ■all boat going fro ■ Guadalcanal to Tullogi, a Jap !ILL-l!lR!t!! - 3 subaarine had chased them. So, they turned out to be old pale. Result a marine, invited to tbe closing session of the United Raf.ion's Conference, with a seat in · a ~,x. lben the prelll>le to the charter was read, the prea■lllle written by that elder statee ■ an froa South Atrica, Field Marshall Sauts, I watched the face of that larine veteran of Guadalcanal and Okinawa. •we peoples ot the United Rations deteraine to save succeeding genera- tions froa the scourge of war which twice in our life-tiae baa ~rougbt untold sorrow.: to aankind; to unite our 1trengtb and aaintain international peace aad 1ecutiry,• aad so on., and so on. They were iapre1eiYe, words 1poten in an iapresaiYe settiDI, with the flaga of the nations of the world draped behind the speaker, and in the presence of atateaaen froa fifty nations. My Marine, Bill Murray, and coabat reporterBob Miller too, they know plenty about that scourge of waT - too much. But they were iapreseei, just as I was; i ■press by what the delegates appear to have done here, and the charter that nearly all the nations of the world have baTe been signing here today - it's 1o~ug to take all e•ening before they can finish tbat signing. It ■ ay not preTent future wars, that cbarter, and this organization - that ■ ay be expecting too ■ucb, but there ia hope in th• ait here in San Francisco, hope that this tiae ■en are . not going to be quite ••ch fools as the7 ha•• been in tbe past. Japan hit again froa the air and I don't aean .. the huge B 29 bo ■bing attack that was in the news this morning. That one 1esterda1 wa1 a aigbty assault which burled 3,000 tone of bombs on Jap war plants -- pin point bombing, for the first ti ■ e. Bit~erto the 8-29'• have used a strategy of wiping out Japanese in•••trial areas by fire. Bow so aucb bas been burned out ttiat the1 are aaking precision attacks against particular factories. Fourteen hours after the bull'•- 111 blasting of the chief war plants, another force of B-29'• hit Japan again, boabing an iaportant war center in the lago7a area. Thia i• the first tiae that there have been two auper-tort••ss boabing• against Japan in one day - a one-two punch. The boys were discussing tbia when I left the Marianas the other.day. They were all ready for it. ADd by the way, Tokyo continues to flash panicky ~ reports about a great Aaerican invasion fleet bib W C '). 6a)' , . . - is ready to hurl another powerful drive against Japan. The invasion fleet s described as consisting of hundreds of ships, now Okinawa. One Japanese to be concentrated off today was that tbe Aaerioan forces aigbt planning to land on Aaaai and Iik be big Japanese guess and worry is that tbe goal of this Aaerican invasion fleet is going to turn out to be Japan itself. The Mikado's jittery subjects are afraid of Aaerican landings on the Southernaost of their boae islands, onW~u~a~b~u~·:_,_ ____ . - - - - - - - - - - ; ~ ~ Bow serious all this is to the Japanese mind was indicated by an official state ■ent aade today. The Tokyo Premier talkin1; Pre ■ ier lasuki telling the Japanese people Jk that the present crisis is, in his words, •the greatest since tbe Mongolian inwion.• By Mongolian invasion be m ~ ant the attempt aade by the great Mongol l ■peror of China, Iuble Ihan, soae 600 years ago. That was in the days of llarco Polo , wbo, tbou1h a Venetian Merchant, was an official at the aag- nificent court of the great llogol. Iubltt Ihan det,erained to conquer Japan, lauached huge fleets. That was Japan's historic moaent of crisis, until now. Bia invaaion failed, largely because of etoraa that disrupted the araada of Iuble Ihan. low, in this year of 1945, thl I••• Jape expect Iuble Ihan all over again, in the person of Uncle Saa. And your uncle 11 ■ ore likely to succeed than the fabulous potentate of China those centuries ago. Tokyo tells of still another invasion fleet. In addition to the one reported off Okinawa, the second ar■ ad described as being off Borneo. The Jape tell of a fleet of eighty ships ■oving toward Bali k Papan. Western Borneo, rieb in oil! Fro• the Allied side we have no confir■ ation of this, just the Tokyo ac c ount, which would mean big new landings on the already inv a de d island of the Dutch East Indies, Baneo. laperor of China, Iuble Khan, soae 600 years ago. That was in the days of larco Polo, who, though a Venetian llerchant, was an official at the ■ ag- nificent court of the great llogol. Iuble Ihan deter■ ined to conquer Japan, lauached huge fleets. Tbat was Japan's historic ■ o ■ ent of ori1is, until now. Bia inYaeion failed, largel7 because of storms that di1rupted the araada of Iuble Iban. low, in this 7ear of 1945, thl 1,~• Jape expect l•ble Iban all oYer again, in the person of Uncle Saa. And your uncle ie ■ ore likel7 to succeed than the fabulous potentate of China those centuries ago. Tok70 tells of still another invasion fleet. In addition to the one reported off Okinawa, the second araad described as being off Borneo. The Japs tell of a fleet of eighty ships ■ oving toward Balik Papan. Western Borneo, rieh in oil! from the Allied side we have no confir■ ation of this, just the Tokyo ac c ount, which would mean big new landin g s on the already inv ad e d island of the Dutch East Indies, Bcmeo. Disclosures following the en d of the European war have been making it ■ore and ■ore clear t ha t th e re is little confi d ence between those two precious Allies, the Japs and the Nazis. We have been hearing that Tokyo told Berlin mighty little about what Tokyo intended to do. The Japs, tor example, didn't infor■ the Bazis~ in adTance, about ,earl Barbor. This is indicated graphicallJ and amusingly today by shorthand notes. lbat Bitler, hi■ self, has to say ~out it. Much Taluable inforaation ia being procured fro ■ the notebooks of stenograpbers who coTered the lazi ruebeer's conferences. And today we haTe •••*••k another sample. le le,rn that Bitler was aigbty indignant because the Japs foole d him about their plans for the war with the United States about Pearl Borbor. The stenographic notes quote bi ■ as declaring angrily 'One can ot count at all on what the Japanese say. I don:t believe a word of it. They tell a pack of lies.• Right you were, Mine Fuehrer. The Germans believed that eTen the two Japanese eaissaries who were conducting peace talks in Washington didn't know what w a s about to happen. Bitler is quoted by the official shorthand aa saying, concerning the Jape: •These people send one Aabassador and then another to Wae ~ ington to wail areund there. These ambassadors haven't an inklin g about Pearl Barbor. I can,• Der Fuehrer goes on, •still pi•ture the good old Iurusu waddling there, tith not an inkling ot what ia happening at Pearl Barbor wben he enters the White Bouse.• Then li-llx Bitler add~ bi1 own Tersion of what Aaerican Secre~ary ot State Cordell Bull bad to say to the waddling Jap e ■ issary, Iruau. Bull roars at hia: •You certainly are doing a dirty business.• To which Der Fuehrer add8t WThe little Japanese ie coapletely flabergasted that they have attached Pearl Barbor. Tokyo doesn't say a word to hi ■.• And Bitler adds, ruefully, •Tokyo doean•t say a word to me.• There is material for history in those comedy German q•etations of tbe Bans and Fritz order. Back-Stage 12lIQ-=_IIR1!1 - 3 history pertaining to sinister world important events. le have a warning about Ger■ an industry. Foreign ltlief Ad ■ inistrator Crowley today stated that German indastry, right now, is a potential aenaoe, a possible nucleus for a new Geraan lar I chine. Be reco■aends that to preTent a future war we ■ust exercise a rigid control oTer Geraan plants and factories. This suggested a pointed question: Weren't the war industries of Ger■ any coapletely saa1he4 i by Allied boabing? The foreign Re- lief Adainistrator an1wer1, •10.• Referring to a aeries of surTeys that have been aade, be declares that the baToc wrought by boabing was not complete, not utter. Factories were daaaged beaTily, but contrary to popular belief, allied bombing did not reduce ■oat of the Ger■ an industrial plants to utter ruin. However, Crowley con- cedes that air asaault was L aajor factor in the Allied victory. One of it's principle effects being to disrupt transportation, out off tbe flow of materials. le hear that Soviet Russia is going to aake a deaand pertaining to the Dar«enelles, that all-vital strip of water connecting the Black Sea with the Mediterranean. The de ■ and, we are told, will be presented at the aeal,ing of the Big Three in Berlin next month. Beports are that the Soviets baTe already aade the deaand on Turkey, but the Turks replie• tnat ta it's an international ■ atter to be settled not between Buasia and Turkey, but by Internation~l consent. BOIAICI -~--~-- Fro■ the shattered City of Bre ■ en in LGer■any co■ea a story of ■ illionaire ro ■ ance; of high society in lew ' York, and the glittering International aet in London and Paris. It oa■e to light when A■erican Military Intelligence noted that a Ger ■ an blonde, who had been trying to fraternize with Aaerioan officers was at the 1a■ e ti ■e holding ■eetinga with wo ■an agents of the lazi Gestapo. They arreste• her. Buth larie, bact in 1928 was a waitress, at a Breaen restaurant trequente4 , , the Aaerican Conaul. One night the Consul brought along a guest who looked with interest at the waitress. She wa1 auite a blonde. And he aade a date. She foand be was an A ■ erioan aillionaire, a tobacco ■agnate. Be pro ■ ised her e•erything - golden splendor, London, ~ew York; That began the roaance in which Ru,b Marie was at first tiaappointed. She aet none of the social celebrities. Be took her to Rew York, put her in a finishing school. Ther• they tougbt the one-time waitress of I•••• Bremen • b ex 0 r a_n San Francisco Conf r tiae to bear Fiel I t' Truaan. So, 80 lon f r t in lew York.