GOOD IYEIIIG EVERYBODY: I'• broadcasting fros litcbel Field, Loa1 Ialand, tonight -- headqaartera of the Fir1t lir rerae uader General Bob Douglas. Arouad •• at the aoaent are ae•eral hundred leader• of la4a1tr7 aaa Labor, and officer• of the lra7, la•1, the lir roroea and the lariaea. 1'4 like to reel off a list of about twenty of their na ■ea, J••t to &i•e 10• •• idea of who ia her•~ represeat- in110•. The1••e been 1peadin1 the day taltin& about thia nation•• biggest problea of the ■oaent, the returaed Teteraa. Or I ehoald ••Y.• the ret•raed Teteran and the c••••nit7, because it'• a coabiae4 problea. There are repreaentati•ea in thi• roo■ tonight froa tert7-fi•e states; so ■• four buadred and fift7 in nuaber. Just to aention a few: General Oaar Bradle7 ia here on one aide •f ■ e, one ef the auaber one 1eneral1 in coaaand of land force• in the greatest of all ware. O•er here al10 is General Spaatz, who, report baa it, will be the next chief of the Ar.a7 Air Forces. Ted Sil•eJ, aa official of the C.I.O. who handle~ proble ■ a concerning veterans, ia Just in front of••· And, industrial leaders like l!lll - 2 Tho ■ aa J. lat ■ oa ef Iaternational Buein••• lachinea. Allan Pryor. exec•tiTe, and bead of the fa ■ o•• lew York AdTertieing Club. l•t \efore I 1ay aaything abo•t what they have been doing today, here is the day'• new ■ , 1o ■ e ef the highlights that haTe been co ■ ing •••r the 1pecial wire that the leatern Ualoa people p•t here fer•• tedaJ 10 that I ai1ht attead thia l ■portaat affair and iatrod•c• the paael of 1peaker1 who are te take part iD the final diao•••ion tonight; aaon1 the ■, General lradler., laJQr Qeneral Gra•e•-lr1tine •f the larin11 who co-aa4e4 the Socoad ■ arin•• at Okinawa; leneral Deolittla, aad others. R!lilI There was roaring and shoutin&, table- thuapin& and banging, at a Conar~asional Co ■ mittee bearing this afternoon; tbe stately Senate Coaaittee on Foreign lelation1. The upr•ar ■ ay - - still be going on - because the latest oft the wire fro ■ laehington pictar•• the Coa■ itt•• a1 at.ill ia ••••ion. Th• occa1ion tor all the noi•• was the appeara~o• of Geaeral Pat Burley, recently reaigned •• laerican labaaaador to Cbiaa. I••~• pr••••t- 1•& to the roreiaa lelatlon1 •~••P hia aca•aatipa that l ■ erioaa polio7 la Cbiaa bad b••• 1abota1•4 , , pre-Co ■■•ni1t1 1• tb• State Departaent. There were lo•d excbana•• between tbe toraer labaasador and Seaators on the Co ■■ ittee - Chair■ an Tea Coanall7 of Texas, in particular. The suggestion wa1 ■ ade that General Burley, in aaking bia obaraea, waa lookin& tor publicity. That drew wrathful retort• froa Burley. Be shouted that be hadn't co ■ e before the Comaittee IIILII - 2 to be prosec•ted, and he wouldn't be led around like what be called: •A bootleggin1 witness.• The gist of all the noise wae a list of fi•e naaea, the for ■er A ■baaaador accusing fi•e State - Depart ■ eat ~fticiala of being pro- Co ■auniat. Two of theae be bad naaed preYiou1l7 - Geor1e Ato~••on aa4 Joha SerYice, bpth of who ■ art aew State Depart ■ ent ad•iaor• to General lac- Arth•r in Tetyo. Tb• ether three, naaed today, were Arth•r lia1walt, aow a1ai1taat cbief of the 41Ti1ioa of Chi•••• aftaira in the State Depart•at, rult•• rree ■ aa, hi• a11iataat, and John Davie•, Jr., now aecea4 ••cretarJ of the l ■ erican in loacow. Burley declared that ltcbe1on, \ehind B•rle7'• baot, bad rece ■■ended to the State Departaent that lead-1•••• araa ■ ent be supplied to the Chineae Co ■ muaista. BDftL!Y - 3 __ ,.. __ _ Chairaan Seaator Connally asked - •why had Atcheson wanted to help the Reds?• B•rley sho•teed back that Atcheson wanted to destroy the g••ern ■ ent of the lepublic •f China - and he shook his head ao vigoroaal7 that hie 11••••• nearly tumbled fro• hie nose. •Did Atcheaon say tho•• were his reaaona?• 4e ■ aa4•4 Connally. •10,• ■ •rle7 tbuadered, •I aay tho•• ' were hia reaaona.• ■• added that Joha Servic~ bad aade a report ad•ocatin1 the overthrow of Chiana Iai Sbek, aa4 that thi1 repert was circulated a ■ ong the Chi•••• Coa■•ai1ta. lepablioaa Seantor Bridges asked whether Ser•ice waa the saae dipleaat who waa involved in what the Seantor called - •A acsndal.• That referred to tbe tact that Service was one of ■ ix persona ' arrested last Spring by the F.B.I. So ■ e of those lll!tlI - 4 arrested were called Co ■■ unists, and tbe wbole thiag waa in connection with charge• that eecret infor ■ ation bad been leaking oti. of the State Depart- aeat. Service was exoaeratei by a Federal Graad J•rJ. B•rley tedaJ ref•aed to •aJ aa7thia1 about that ,articular afflir~ lar.le7 stated that ••tin Cbiaa be••• a1r•••••t ••~•••• a,1aa1 lal Sbet aad the Chin••• Co•••ai1t1 - •b•• t~• •••• ca■• tbat ltobeaoa aad . . SerTice bad been appointed a4•i••r• to laclrth•r in T-et70. !bat •pilled the bean,, aai4 he, bee••• . ~ tbe Cbin••• ~•••paper•, particularlJ the Ce ■muniata, took the Atcheson-Service appoint,ents to aean that B•rley did not reallJ represent A ■erican polic7 in China. Bere'• the latest. General Gerow accepts responsibility for the failure in Washington to check on Aray defenses at Pearl Barbor. Thia refer• epecifically to the ■ essage sent by Pearl Barbor Coa■ ander ~ General Short, wbo infomed tbe War Departaent that he had put an anti-Sabotage alert into effect. That meant the gatherin1 of plane• to1etber at ~ne place - whicb ••• protection a1ain1t sabotage, but it aade the planes a ■ ark for Jap air raider,. General Gerow stated today that hi• departaent, the lar Plana Division, had failed to eTaluate properly General Short'• ae11age about a aabota1• alert. -- - - - - The t•arl Barbor investigation beard teatiaony today fro• Lieutenant General Leonard Gerow, who at the tiae of Pearl Barbor was chief of the War Jlana DiTision of the Aray General Staff. ABIOLD ______ __, Genefal Bap Arnold warns us against - an aeri~l laginot Line. The Co~mander of t~e Ar■y Air Forces declares that the present air aupreaacy of this country ■ ay turn out to be a snare and a delusion - if we rest on what we've got: and if we don't keep A ■ erican sky power in a atate of continual develop ■ ent. In the Army and lavy Journal, General Arnold argues that the atoaic bo ■b has caused a revolution in the etrategy of Air power. Take the great aerial araadas of World War lu ■ber Two, the giant sky fleets that s ■ asbed lazi Germany. Because of the atoaic boab, these ar~ now, in the words of General . Arnold: •As outaoded as the Macedonian Phalanx.• · l•if And it we beco ■ e complacent and don't keep up with the new weapons that are being developed, our present air supremacy •may prove as boll w,• says the Air Forces Comme.ader •as the legend or the laainot Line.• Another big st•ike looaa tonight - Chrysler. It was announced in Detroit this after- noon that negotiations between the Chrysler corp~ta- t ' ioa and the · au\o worke . u union have col .1. apsed ' . In the face of Union demands for a thirty per cent wage increase, negotiations for a new contract haYe broken do~•· So ■ aybe there will be a Chrysler walkout - in addition to · the General Motor• atrite. The news fro■ Detroit continues to in- aist that the Union wants to settle the General lotore dispute before President Tn■ an can put bis fact-finding idea into effect - before a board, na■ed by the President, can begin an inquirJ into the causes of the strike. As we beard last night, Walter Reuther, Vice President of the Auto lorkers Union, was to have ■ et officials of General Motors today g but that appointment was called off suddenly Reuther, with General Motors A1senting. The Union lice Presideat started out on a hurry-up trip -- but just where is not known. The iapression of baste in all this leads to the notion that qui~k deTelop ■ ents ■ ay be in prospect for the General Motors str,te. lore and ■ ore toady the Onions are pictured•• growing increasingly angry at President Tru■ an - after the lbite Bouse proposal that the General letora strike be called off by the Onion while a fact-findin& •oard ■ ates an inTeatigation. There is a good deal ot talk of a break of friendly relation• between th• C.I.O. and the Truaan Adainiatration. To return bere to Mitchel Field for a aoaent, the Air force played host today, because General Arnold had said: •our interest in the Air Force doesn't stop just because the bombs are no longer falling.• With wbicb all the other ar■ a of o•r ■ ilitar7 service agreed. Renee this aeeting. The aain ooncluaion reached in the • di1c•••i••• this afternoon waa that it isn't exactly the veteran who ia the problea, it 11 the coaaunit7 and the veteraa. Tbe7 have ■ utual prebl••• tbe7 ••st work out together. Your aon, your father, coaing hoae, want, a job. Be al10 needs 1oae time out to settle down. And tben, a certain a■ ount of understanding on the part of•• here at ho ■ e i1 necesaary. The ■ an who ha• been at war, hundred• of thousands of the ■ -- baa been through experiences that are not 10 easy for the huaan being to go through. rear ia one of these. lonotony ia another. legi ■ entation is a third. Bo ■ eaictness, too. Be'• ten••· To get him out of that, takes ti ■ e, and underatanding fro ■ all of ua. Colonel Boward lush who has done so ■ uch for the rehabilitation of veterans, was in the aiddle of all this today. Also ied Silvey, of tbe C.I.O. And they have been telling ■ e about the aeed in eTery co ■ aunity, for a pla-ee where the Teteran can go and get help: ao ■ eone to adTiae bi ■ on aay problea that he ■ ay have. The news of the Rureaberg trial last night was a little heavy - the legal aide, the J•ridical angle, the technicalities ot law. To ■ ake up tor it there is another kind ot lu■ e ■berg stery tonight - a thriller of terror••• 1a1pense, with tast ctioa and hairbreadth escape -- a story that the •••i•• have never equalled. The trial ot the la1i war cri ■ inal• aot around today•• the ■ atter ot plots aaainat Bitler. And, these incl•d•d t•• bo ■b plot, the coaapiracy at the Ger■•- G•neral• -- when in lineteen rorty- rour they nearly bl•• Der Fuehrer to Iin14o ■ Coae. - lad the exploeion did ~ipz iajur hia aeverly. The disclosure today was that the con- spiracy et the Generals waa preceded by two ether atte ■pta; two ai ■ ilar plots to kill Bitler, and arranged DJ high officers. The first of these prodaced nerve sbatter.ng terror and suspense. That atte ■ pt was ■ ade on July thirteenth, lineteen rerty-Tbree, after six ■ onths of the ■ oat careful scbeaing. The ••l plotters were high co■■ andera at Geraan lray Headquarter• in Berlin. Bitler was ■ akins a trip by airplane to tbe Eastern Front, then deep i~ Russia, and a ti ■ e boab wa1 placed under bis seat in th e plaae. 1 The boab was titted with a cheaical f•••· lo tickin1 of a clock under Der f•ehr•••• ••at. The plotter• had tested this cheaical type of fuse repeatedly, and were sure it would work. Bitler toot oft, and at Aray Headquarters . in Berlin th, Bigb Coaaand officers waited fer tbe newa, waited teaael7 for t~e flash. They bad vivid ■ ental pictures of what they expected to ha pp en - the pl a ne ap,edin& tbrougb the air and the bo ■ b under Hitler's seat going off with a shattering explosion, tbe pl~n• and lk Der Fuehrer blown to saithereens. Presently a ■ essage caae, and their hearts IJ!Blllllti - 3 dropped into their shoes. A telephone call 1■■ D gaTe the rou.tine intor ■ ation that the Bitler plane had landed ■ afely at it ■ deatination. So ■ etbin1 had 1one wrong with the cheaical fuse - it failed to work. The plotters were in desperate danger. The7 knew, that in the course of routine, the Bitler plane would be inspected, and the package with the boab would be found in the co■part■ent under the ■ eat. The Gestapo would be able to trace it ala, and, · that wouli ■ean death to the officer• at Ar■7 Headquarter, ia Berlin. Their only chance was to get that boab before t~e routine inspection of the plane was aade - and that lite-and-death taat they gave to the officer who had placed the internal ■ achine to begin with. le was Lieutenant TOD Schlabrendorf, of an aristocratic Prussian ■ ili,ary family. Von Schlabrendrof ■ ade a breath-taking trip to the place where the plane was, got there with all possible speed - and talked fast to the guards. Be told thea that a secret package of docuaenta had been placed in the plane, that it had been incorrectl1 addressed, and that he wanted to correct the aistate. The guards aaid, •ob, that package,• Tei, it ha4 '••• found •nder the teat and been taken to the proper place to be inTestig•••d. The oung officer, half aad with anxiet1, raced to that place. There the package••• Just about to be openet - aa be caae rushing in. The secret of what it contained was about to be disclosed - right in hi• face. Be talked fast about confidential papers - the package ■ ust not be opened. Bis talk was so convincing, and his credentials fro ■ Ar ■ y Beadqaarters in Berlin so i ■ pressi•e - that he carried the thing through. In a ■ inute Lieutenant •on Scblabrendorf, br@atbing deep sighs of relief, was IUBIIBIRG - 5 ---------- on bie way out - with the package. And ttaat plot was never discovered. The Gestapo ne•er found · out - - whereupon the h igb conspirators went on with lew attempts to kill Bitler, none of which saceeeded. FOLLOW NUR E MBERG -----------~--~-- On tbe more imposing side - the Nuremberg trial brought to light to d ay a miscalculation by Goering, a miscalculation th t may very well have cost Germany the war. Four and a half months before the outbre a k of ostilities, (General Spaatz, this will be of special interest to you and to all of 1our airaen here.) Four and one half months before the war the Kazi Humber-Two Man Goering gaYe his assurance that Britain would be defeated in tne air. Goering made the statement to Mussolini and the Foreign linister of Fascist Italy, Count Ciano. Be spoke officially as the builder and commander of the powerful German Air Force, the Luftwaffe. Brtiain at the tiae was trying desperately to build an air Force, working feverishly to con- struct planes. Goering told Mussolini and Ciano that the British aircraft cons t ruction pro g ram would not succeed in pro d ucing anyt ~ ing much un t il IQ11Q!_!~R~~~t!Q - 2 Nineteen Forty - Two, and th t the British Air Force, therefore, would not be able to put up any effective resistance if war were to break out soon. That was Goering's miscalculation. Ee was right about the inability of the British con- atru•tion prograa to turn out any great nuaber of planes. But be failed to foresee that the saall British Air Force, with a few eucb superb planes as the Spitfire and Hurricane, would be able to bold bis own giant Luftwaffe when the final teat caae -- and win the air battle of Britain; after which the7 would have to deal with soaetbing almost hoa-•xiatant in 1942 Aaerican Air power that droTe Goering'• legions from the sk7 and pla7ed such a great part in paral7zing Geraan7's war aachine. And that just naturally brings ■e back to litcbell Field, where I aa -- and now Hugh, )act to Radio City where 7ou are. LTP.1945.12.05i.pdf LTP.1945.12.05ii.pdf