HI CAB~ t.t. coats II: ) GOOD EVENI G EV E RYBODY: Tonight we are pro ■ iaed that at least part et thi1 progra ■ will be broadcast fro■ Santiago d• Chile. I••• Lowell Tho ■ as is there, Rri ■ ed with stories ot what •• baa seen in the A ■ericas below the Equator, and ~ e1p1ciall7 his interesting trip across the Andes. So what • •• ,r-"~ A 7ou'll hear fro ■ u■Jwill be not auch ■ore than bulletin• of the news of the world. . . If you' r e .. i s e n1 : ~ if•,••illxlt • &•axi•~ Lo e l , it my stimul & te y o to h e r that Briti troo p s lan d ed on Crete l ast ni ht. It a not a n invasion · n force, bee use they - w e d ri g ht in, did a lot of daaa e, turned - ·gt \ and wa l -::- ri ht out . a . a-:. They J:!:::::1--.ithout losses. Evident y it was a commando raid, and the aroun an7 official communique reports that only small force~ were employed. EYerything went off as planned. The landing party destroyed a number of enemy planes on the ground, burned up a large quantity of gasoline, and, says the comm u ni ue, •all atrols withdrew safely.• - The British hi r h com m an d took prec ution1 to pr e v n t the peopl of Crete from r i.Sing their hopes - too uch. The B.B.C. broa d c a s a. w a rnin g that this was - tLt- n ot a r e 1 inv s ion a n d ~ Cre t ns sh o · ld t ak e no art Ate,,- t,Ri•4i 11 I 'i~d l ay h e Ives 0 e n to blood r e pr i a ls from th e G e r ,. ns. ~i l itar y o f icex5in L ondon said the idea of the - r a i was p robably mor e too t a in inform h tion for future - o p er a tions than any re 1 action. At the s a me time, ~ thes~ commando methods a r e more 1Clt1•i•a than bo ■bing and strafing froa aloft. ' The i■port e nt~is that the British force• were ab l e to land at all an d g et away safely. It baa - . . 0 been widely advertised that the de£enses which the Razia have erected in Crete are of the strongest and ■ oat ela~orate in all the southern European theatre. r P> . CIFIC ------ Here is the main news fro ■ the Pacific. A aquadro of American ■ en-o-war carried t h ~ * - Jap bases in I\ out a daredevil raid into the central Soloaon1. They took the eneay by coaplete surprise and apparently - ■et with no defense. It was the second ti ■e in a day aa4 ~ a . half that a United States naval force went into actioa - in the lew Georgia Island waters. It was only s,turdaL that a 1quadron def•ated eeven Jap warship• which trie4 to shell our ■en on Rendova Island. - In the latest raid, they bo ■barded Vila and - Viroko. Those are the Jap bases which support Munda. Correspondents report that the Japs at Yunda are in an 4xtremely shaky position. In fact, it looks as though - - it would not be long before unda falls to our forces. - Alre dy the Japs there are almost isolated. e hold the isl nds next d oor to Rendova. Admir 1 R lse~ r ports that the situation f the . A C IFIC - ------ Americans at Viru, c ured last week, is Yer7 satisfactory. Up to Sunday, the latest United States oftensi•• bas resulted in the destruction of no tewer than a hundred and sixty enemy pl a nes. Allied losses have b••• ••~11 in co ■ parison. Admiral Halsey alee reports that our ships have bagged at least eight, and probably nine, - J,paneae aidget aub ■ arines in the 8olo ■ on1 area. The war in Russi has coae to again after a lull of a hundred a n d one days. The Ger ma ns the\A"'lon g expected offensiYe. They attacked on a front a hundred and sixty ailes between Orel and Belgorod • . TheJ did not get an7w~ere, •o Yoacow aays becau•e a powerful Red aray was ready to •••t the• and fought . ~ the• ott. The Germana attacked with l1n1• canoentreti••• of tanks and infantry, under a coYering uabrella of planes. loscow claims the Germans loat fiYe hundred aa4 eighty-six tank• and two hundred and three plan••• SIIQISll rro■ Loadoa we leara that a oo ■■ ltt•• repr•••atiag tb~ Poliah Go•era ■eat 1• l•a•i•& for Gibralter to i••••tigate tbe airplaae oraab that r•••lted la tbe death of tbe Poli1h Prla• liai1te, Ge•eral Sikor1ti, hi• daagbter, and fifteea other Qeaeral Sikor1ti, ao baa bad a loa1 aad diatl•••l•hed oareer,aot oal7 headed the ca,iaet, b•t ••• Couaaler-1•-Chief of th• Poliah lilltar7 f•ro••• a•d hla l•ath, whioh ia a •••loa1 blow to tbe Poli•• I■ QoYera■•nt ia •zile, will eatail draatio ••• •••••••l••tlo•. ,., .. tho•• killed waa a dear frlead of aiae, Colonel Yictor Ca1alet, wbo, aiaoe liaet•• rort7 baa aer••• a• liaiaoa officer bet•••• the Britiah and Pollah 1o•ern■eat1. I• diatinaaiabed biaaelf in the la1t war, waa Britiah aquaah racqaeta cbaapion for four 7aara, aad bas aat in tbe Bouse of Coaaona aince lin•t•e• Twent7-four. ! fine public . and u understanding friend of this countr7. aer•ant I . , LJ.. r F-J E\ ------------ Th r w s not er f a r -u p of th t f e ud between Vi c e-Pr si ent R nry a ~ l a ce an ecr e tary of Commerce Jes e J es. Jones as p itc h in g to da y. He threw at the h e of the Vice-P r esi c ent the accus a tion that he had been g ui l ty of malice, innuendo, half-truths and no truths at all . Be denied bitterly that his ------ .. - Recon1truction Finance Corporation had done anything to hamper the war effort. The b l ame, rather, should - lie at the doorstep of Wallace's Boar d of Economic W arf e r . He went on to ap p ly to the Board of Economic a f e r such ch o i e e p ithets as incom etent, hysterical, e descri b ed it as a mon e y-s q ua~ ~ erin g organization noisy. J-eres t••• .asid tlut::r:Jfwnicb . h a s 1:_ t done - the job fnr · hi c h it wa s organi z ed. An d he d e cla r ed a l l e did n o t no w w h a t he ws t l k in g about. l ' 1.T. SOIOCO ~ J9ly 5, 1943 FBOI SilTIAGO DE CHILE GOOD EVEIIIG, EVERYBODY:- I should be talking about Chile tonight, · for that ia where I a ■• But, for a few ■ inute1 I will interrupt Ir. Bugh Gibaon and ■ake a few re ■ark• about the Argentine. I had planned to get through to you laat Friday night. I had just left Brazil, and landed in Bueno• 1iree, capital of Argentina. Aad I waa 1oia1 to talk about Brazil. But, I ran into a r••olution. That ia, I found Ar1entina technically ia a state of 1eige. And the new ■ ilitar1 goYernaent•a new cenaor didn't care a hoot whether a broadcast 1ot throu1h to lorth Aaerica or not. le •torte- Aaericaaoa• were none too popular with the recent Castillo governaent, and aaybe we are equally unpopular with the new revolutionary regime of ta •Eight Arm1 Colonels.• The Colonels who,tbe other -2- day kicked President Castillo and his colleagues right into the River Platte with their coaic opera r••olt -- which ■a7 have anything but coaic opera oon- aequencea. Soae South Americana are saying that it ■a7 be the forerunner of a South A ■erican war or aerie• of ware. It ao, Uncle Saa, 7ou and I, will be bla ■ed. More about that in a ■o ■ent. To get back to that Araentine censor in Buenos M.r•• -- I have juat tlowa the Andes, and now can ■ peat freel7 about the Buenos Aires censor. lhat hap- pened was this. lben I arrived in Argentina, froa Brasil, last rrida7, I was told that everything I in- tended to say must first be put into Spanish and passed b7 the new militar7 censor. (Inoidentall7, the7 have asked nothing like that froa ••herein Chile. Tbe7 haven't even asked me what I aa going to speak about.) But, b7 the t i e I had the translation ready, the censor had made up his mind that tomorrow would do just as well. Be had gone home. -3- A group of Argentine journalists were waiting in the radio studio, waiting to hear ■e broadcast. And they expressed the opinion that their new 1o•ern- ■ ent ••• still unorganized; that it hasn't yet shown that it knows what to do, bow to do it, or what direc- tion to take. At an7 rate, as a result of that incident, I •• •kipping Brazil, until I get hoae. Let's talk about tbie Ar1entine revolution. It probabl7 ia the ■oat i ■portant d••~lop ■ent in South A ■ erica in quite a long time. And it directl7 concern• this lorld far which we so badly want to win. And in aeveral ways we lorth A ■ericans are cloael7 in- YOlYed in what is happening in Argentina. I have talked to the leaders of the revolutinn, and to many others. On Saturday, the day before yesterday, eYen it it was only a half day, I managed to cover consider- able ground: a visit with an old friend, Ambassador and m · embers of bis staff; and then, to Borman Armour, -4- \~• surprise ot Journalists, and others -- ■aybe it was because ot that censor incident the night before 0 which bad been written up in the morning papers -- I · waa told that I was to have the first audience 1ranted to any visiting journalist, with the new President, And in addition to talking to General Pedro Paul la■ ire1, I also ■et the new Vice-President, Ylce Adairal Sava Sue7ro; and a priest with an Anglo- Saxon naae who baa great intluen ■ e with this new ■ ili­ tary group. Bis na ■ e is rather Wilkinson. Be doesn't apeak a word of Inglish, but bis grandfather ca■ e fro ■ the U.S.A., and be hopes soae day to go there and visit hie relatives. I hope he does. Be bas an expansive personality, just the sort to help improve friendly relations; he will be our •Ambassador Armour• in the superb work that.!!! has done. Revertheless, when! lett Buenos Aires early yesterday morning, to fly over the Andes, I felt puzzled -5- and dissatisfied with what I had failed to accoapliab. Our own Eabasay people, the beads of the Argentine Goyern ■ ent, journalists (of the United Press and lew York Herald Tribune), Aaerican airaen -- none had explained the enigaa. lone could tell ae auch about the new ao•ernaent. And now I was in the plane, ebout to cro11 the Andes into Chile. Then fate interfered -- and I belie•• in a fortunate way. Bad weather oyer the Andes droYe ua down right iD the ■ iddle of Argentine -- at an ideal place, Cordoba, one of the oldest cltiea in South A ■erica, ite of the second oldest South Aaerican uni•erait7, next to San Marcoa of Li ■a, Peru. Fourth of July in ■ id-winter. And l was alone in the ■ iddle of Argentina, with an icy rain po•ring down on Cordoba. The Pan American Grace ••iatora all went to bed. I decided to try and stir up so ■ ething. Although in a city of 350,000 people, I could -6- find no Aaerican Consul, so I did the traditional thins, I called the British Consul for thirty years a banker in Cordoba. Be in turn phoned Don Exiquial Feiten, Ford di1tributor for Araentina. Don !xiquial said, •ob, there was one A■erican there a professor who had just arriYed a few days before to lecture at the Inatituto Cultural fro ■ lew York City.• In the end we rounded up a party ot twelYe: Proteaaor Robert Sn7der of lew York; tour pilots and radio ■en of Paa Aaerican Grace; Don Carlos Allane and his tiny brilliant wife, one ot the few wo■en ■edi­ oal doolora in the country, who had studied at John• Bopkina; a mining engineer and his lady, fro ■ BoliYia; and the British consul ca ■e along. Oh yes, and Don !xiquial, who insisted upon being the boat, with great difficuit1 found one Aaerican flag in Cordoba with which to decorate the table, along with the Argentine flag. -7- A• for food -- the7 haYen't heard about the war when it coaes to that. Both in Buenos Aires and Cordoba I ate all the ateak I could, knowing that fro ■ now oa I'll not see ao aic of it. Then for hours we talked about the war, and the world, and Argentina. And I learned auch ■ore about the reoeat change of 1o•ern ■ent; of how the Castillo . regi ■e fell because it waa pro-Axia and because ti. Ar117 leaders aaw the other countries around the ■ co- . operatin1 with the Allies and in return getting ■odern weapon• -- particularl7 Brazil. Brasil, that hurt,. For Brazil baa 1iven us that great 1tring of air ba1e1 which lead us to Africa, and which enabled ua to defeat Bo ■■el. The Ar■J leaders in Argentina, through General Ra ■ ire1, who was then Castillo's War Minister, demanded that Csstillo do something. When he didn't, in marched the A1my, and out went Castillo. -8- Raairez and the other military aen with hia iaaediatel7 tried to appease the long displeased United lationa by stopping the lazia am Jape fro ■ ooa■uni­ oatin1 with their hoae oaantriea in code; stopping the ■ f~o• uaing Argentina•• their aain co ■aunicationa b•••• In return, ao I heard on all aidea in Argentina, tbe7 hoped to get aoae of our lend-lease genero1it7 an4 weapon,. lot 1•tting an iaaediate response from Uncle Sa ■, tbe7 no• are already showing aoae anxiety. In fact, well-infor ■ed obaeryers feel that the present re1i•• should be considered as a teaporary. ailitary •Junta,• headed by ■en inexperienced in politics, opportunists who aa7 or aay not aake a go of it. One Argentine obaeryer of high repute deBcribed it all as •a clear ayatery.• Apparently it is not a govern ■ent that re- presents the will of the people, because the people have not yet bad an opportunity to find out what the -9- present goveraaent has in ■ ind. lhe problem of Argentina is a difficult one, and we in forth A ■erica should not be too quick in our judgment. She has beea neutral with pro-Axia leanings. The vital war 1upplies that we have desperatel7 needed, we have been able to get fro ■ Argentina's neighbor,. lnd there hasn't been enough •hipping left over to enable us to trade with the people of that countr7, ba7ing her delicioue ■eat and her grain. low Ar1entina sees her neighbors growing 1tron1er and etronger. so 7ou can't bla ■e her for feeling uneaa7. As one Argentine scholar put iti •The world today is divided into two parts: on one side digpitz. freedo ■ and liber~z; OD the other side Re told ■e to say to ■7 countrJmen that even if Argentina has a temporary ailitary regi m e, the people of Argentina want to be on the side of the former. And in so saying, he gave -lo- ae a curious aou•enir to take hoae. It is a aaall whip, such aa the Gauchos uaed 7ear1 ago. Be aay1 that Ar1entina, during a long period of her hiatory, had been rule4 by the whip, but that ahe ••• pa1aia1 that ataae, and no loa1er would ataad for that type of reai••· ---o--~-