----- there was top notch pol1t1c&l drama in lhe rrench lat1onal AasemblJ today. Triumph -- for the little fellow. Downfall - for ttie big fellow. P&ndemoaiwa int.he farls Par11amen1 - wlth vloldn\ •r&ngl1ng among the follower• of General Charle• DeGaulle. Becauee DeGaulle was the blg fellow -- who - - ,ook the •~Pl in a stun.nln1 political aurprl••• ·.: ne little fellow wa1 that al ■oel uatnova t11ure about whom we heard a couole of da11 ago, lnto1ne Ptnar -- a11te4 bY rrench Prem1er AurS:ol lo cr1 ■ 11 a1nce the second World War -- top ranktng leader• unable to llne up a cabinet. Pin&J, whoee name wae hardly know~e•en in France -- called unon to become Premier, tf he could line up enough IQP ort FB4BQI - APP Today, he stood before the ~asembly, whlab would vote hlm in, or turn him down - and made a 1peech the subJect - taxes. Which 11 reason ~r for \he crt11a, with its fall of m1n1atr1es. In rrance, 11•1 almost a matter of public prlde - to evade the p&yaeal of taxea. Pln&J made a braYe 1peech - aoura1eou1, candid. Be noted lhat the nuaber of people who 4eolare l:Aoo••• over elev.efhouaand d0llara a y:ear u very •••1 -- while \he number, who 11Yie 1n expeAst•e elaborate style, ie large. •to end th1a fraud, be cried,••• must aake lt, in the eyea of everybody, an antl-eoctal act, whicfi bears the aaae atlgma as 4eaert1on fro• the army.• It all made sense, patr1ot1o sense - oui, still, ther e seemed little hope for Pinay. The powerful Boo1a11st"l..~~~1:g~st hlm, and he could 1, not line up enough atren th amon other ~roupa - without support trom the partisans of DeGaulle. - But, DeGaulle, the big fellow, was making a bid for nower. Be gave the order - abstain. Don't vote for Plnay, or - - - ag~nst him. Vhich meant - that the little fellow wou14 fall short of a maJority. So that was the situation when the vote came -- and the big surprise. Twenty-seven partlaane of DeGaulle rebelled, nearly one fourth of the total. They were angered by the maneuvering, and decide4 to put the national interest before loyalty to party. Two, 1n disgust, re1lgned rrom the DeGaulle factlon. the twenty-seven bolter, voted for P1naJ - and he won a majority. Whereupon, the uproar wae defeanlng - the followers of DeGaulle in wild argument and recr1 ■ 1natlo The re ulars hurling insults at the boltera -- the bolters shouting ack. The apl1t - a stinging blow for DeGaullc. It might mean a decisive setback for the big fellow - his own partisans defyin his orders. So Pinay, tle little !ellow, is Premier o! France to 1 ht. The y say he may not 1 t lon. S-u Today's pol!tioal dr ma may not mean anything permanent - but it was e~citing while it lasted. YIPAI . . . . Ia Lea4on, Labor Part1 Leader Cle■ent lttl•• 4•■ an4• a abow4own - on the apllt lo tbe rank• of tbe Soclall1t1. Today, tbe foraer Priae llntater oalle• a ■eetia1 of ia,or Part1 lea4er■ la Parllaaeat \e la relellloa. T~• aeetia1 - to•• belt oa f•••a,. T~i• foll••• ••••t• la lb• lo••• ot Coa■oaa 7ea\ena7 - wbea lelaa aa4 flft., fl•• of bla foll••••• ••l\et. Oa a ■otl•• of •ao ooafl4••••• a1alaa\ \le Cb•roblll •••••••••t, ••••• wute4 a atro•1•• r•••l•ll• lo,•~• \~e wote eue, he and hia titt7-flwe abatalae4 -- a aort of alt 4on atrlke. llalob 1••• flaaton Claarchill bi• bl11e•t aaJorlt7 ainoe tbe preaea\ coaaer•atiwe 1o•ernaeat took power. Later, tbere ••• a wot• on the lritiab araaaeat pro1ra■, wbicb the La,or Part7 be1an - and wbicb 1\ aupporta, alon1 with the Conaerwati•••• Labor••• Conaerwatta• woted in fa•or - •11 •ut I I l••an and hia tollowera. They Toted aaainat. Open re•olt aaaina\ party a . acipline. LAIRAI - a Attlee and his fell cw leaders are gravely concerned - admitting that this is the worst rift - in theJ\a1•~ Party since Nineteen Twenty-One..,)lfien their leader, the late Bameay MacDonald, broke awaJ and formed a ooal1t1on with the ConserYatlYea. Bui what to do about ltT They could, of course, expel Aneurin Bevan and hle cohort of lefl wingers from the Labor party. But thia la unlikely -- conalderlng Bevan•• political strength. The beat gueaa appears to be - that they will re1n1tate foraer •* - d1so1pllne, a rul6 requiring Labor Party NP'• to - - pledge tbemselvea to 1upport the party u ■ajorltJ 1n ~ all votes in the Common,. President Truman asks for seven billion, nine hundred million - that much new foreign aid. In a special meeaage to Congress today, he called it - a m1n1Jlwl requil'eMnt, rock bottom. To Cl.lt the huge figlll'e would be, in the President•• words, "foolish and dangerous." In an ei~t thousand word mess&&e, he told tne 1e,1slators that every dollar of the seven billion, nine hLlndred million - was needed to bolster the defenses of the free w rld aaainat the aenar;, of Red a.areaa1on. All of which was restated am rear4'11ed in the presidential radio ad~esa, you no doubt heard only a few minutes 84iO. Hevertheleae, the 1amediate word 1n Conaress is - that there will be a c11t! BOth political parties echo the same sentillent. Connally of Texaa, Chairllan of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, says that he 1s sur& the total can be reduced. In the House, Republican leader Joe Martin of Mass&.chllsetts, declarea: "We're will1~ to i1ve the pro-'ru TRUMAN - very c nt it n eds,but n t ne cent m r e . Hearings will begin next week - on the ne~ White Huse proposal for foreign aid . ;C OW Ji O L LO t € · . l ln 1 r undred • .I. that In o ow, o , u e sums of n oney r e in l ine od y , t Suur e Sav i t ot t he - fo r t e n xt fiscal year. I t 's the 1 n o 1 t e ce-t 1me-h1 t o ry ) n ear ly four• nd- eventy-s ven bi l l i ot ru b les. How much i n t e r s of dollars? ell, t era's no real way of !1 uring. The nominal rate, named by oscow, is four rubles to th dollar. So the•••••• budget would come to nearly onewhundred-e.nd-twenty billion dollars. The e ye s of the world are focused on - the m ilitary angle. How much tor the Red war machine! ~he military budget is also the largest ever in Bov1 t peace time h i s t o r j nearly one-hundred-and-fourteen billion•• rubles. Or, nearly twenty-tour percent of the total. Last year t e figure tor Soviet armament was lee , about t w enty-one p e rcent of t he total. More m oney tor the Rd w a r m chine, - o n up\ - The Army gives an acc o unt of what happened to the diary kept by Yajor General Robert Grow, former 0. S. milit a ry att a che in Moscow. Over in Europe, the Reda have published excerpts from the General's da7-b7- day journal. The propaganda purpose being - to picture the United States as a war-monger. The Ar■y states that, last aummar, General Grow left Uoacow on a trip to Germany - and, at a hotel in Frankfurt bis diary was stolen. Apparentl7 - b7 a SoYiet agent. Parts of it were photographed, and the diarJ was returned to the General's rooa - never havin1 been missed. ~he photographs were delivered to the Communists, and now the diary is q uoted in a book b7 an Englishman in Communist East Germany. The affair of the diary has been brewing for so ■ e time - and, because of it, Genera l Grow was recalled from his Moscow post. He ia now on duty at the Pentagon in Washington. The quotations pictur~ the General as a man of decided opinions. Who wrote: •wer!(exclamation mark) es soon as possible . ({exclamation mark) now/ (exclamation mark)~ 'nd adding: "we must start by - )'1....- hitting below the belt. This wa~ cannot be conducted ~ according to Marquis of Queensbury rules.• These personal opinions by an Army officer are cited as proof that Uncle Saa is a war-aonger. They do picture the General, who commanded the Sixth Araored Division in the smashing of Kazi Germany - aa ha•ing his own opinion about Soviet Ru1eia. KOREA N w rom Tokyo ind1cat s that th r e m ay be a nother al l i d shift in the t ru ce talks. T o day, our chief ne otiator, Admiral Turner Joy, w, sin oonfererm with Supreme Commander Gen e ral Rid way. With rumors - that t h ey were diHcuse1ng some new turn o r policy. At Pan Mun Jom, virtually not h ing happened toaay, thou h the usual talks were held - on mere minor points. OIL Te Pre 1 ent h s just order d the W ~ e Sta b i l iz t i n B oa t o t ke a c ti o n to bead off an 0 11 s rike. A nati o nwi d e w a lkout 1s cheduled for o n ay m idni ht a n t ~ e President says th strike would crinple the defense effort; s~ :_:1e ~bor ~oa. r d will intervene. __ no .... c_TQR The Massachusetts Medical Society has asked for the resignation of Dr. Robert E. Lincoln of Medford. Which brings to a climax an uproar in medical circle• - the Society announcing that there is no basis for claims made in behalf of Dr. Lincoln'• treatment of cancer, tuberculosis, multiple sclerosis and other diaea••~ The medical contro•ersy wa1 draaatized b7 Senator Tobey of Ne• Hampshire, who declared that hi• own 10n had been cured of cancer by a eeru ■ deYeloped - b7 Dr. Lincoln. Tobey atated thie on the Senate floor, and charged that the Maaaachuaetta Medical Society••• blocking the new wonder working treataent. Be said - he'd ask tor a Senate inYesti1ation. The Maeaachuaetts Medical Society report• that a study was made by what it calls - wA committee of fi•• outstanding acientlats,~ who spent seYen months, inquiri DOCTOR -2 ___ . _.....___. into the results obtained by the use of the seru■• Their verdict, as given today, states - thee is no evidence that the patients treated derived any benefit. In the case of Senator Tobey's son, who i i a · ••• Baapehire attorney - they note that he was treated for cancer, not only by Dr. LincolD'a ■ etho4, bat alao by surger7 and x-ra7 therapy, these orthodox aethoda brin1ing about an iapro•ement. That'• the iaplication. The Medical Society declares that Dr. Lincola violated the ph7aiciana' code of ethics - thou1h there ia no explanation of what the Yiolation •••· Bi1 resignation ia demanded, cli ■ axing the controver17. §BOQll!Q_ New Ymrk had a sensation a l shooting tonight, when gu ■ men wounded Saul A. Rosenblatt, a prominebt lawyer - who, in a trial now going on, is accused of using undue influen c e in th e will o ~ a gr at grand-daughter of J.P. Yorian, the gr ea t Morgan. ~ She was Mrs. Elenor A Satterlee/ and her psychiatrist, Dr. fichard loffaan, ia named along with Lawyer Rosenblatt. Dramitic background for th shooting tonight - which was done in gangland raahion in frcnt of a fashionable Park Avenue apartm•nt. Rosenblatt, who lives in the apartment, ••• returinig ho ■ e fro ■ his office. At the curb••• an automobile with two m en, one o f wh o a st ep ped out and fired three shots. Risenblatt, just entering the door, ••• hit in the leg - not critically injured. Be and his family say they ave no idea of who the gunmen were, o r why. The lawsuit involvin g the will o f the great grand-daughter of the late J.P. Morgan ■■ t would s e em to have no connection. Ro1enblatt is 'impartial chairman• of the lew York Cloak and suit indu1try. Bia post, having to do with labor aatter1. So there ia an immediate guess that the •hooting might ha•• been invllved with the labor dispute. STAMPS In Baltimore, wooden stands colla ~ed at the Sonya Benie ice show toni ght . injurecl / P., ,Allt'O 1eriously. The ice show w a s ,eing held in an armory and the performance was about to begin - when there wa1 a louu cracking and ruabling. The•••••••• crow4e4 stan41 broke up, amid\andeaonium of screams . . . , .... ~ A Over in En lan , a famous mathematician was put on trial today, and the evidence was enou h to han anybody but a mathematician. Professor Lancelot Hogben, of the University of Birmingham, 1s the author of a tome that was a best-seller a few years ago - •mathematics for mlll1on1~ In thle he gave a lucid philosophy of such matters as - calculus and spherical trigonometry, not to mention 11nate1n and the Quantum Theory. So imagine what a shocker it was today - locked up on a charge of drunken driving. Accused of being pie-eyed and plastered when he backed his oar into another automobile. A policeman stating - that the Professor was staggering, and couldn't talk straight. Drunk to the nth degree - pickled i n t e ratio of zero to infinity. But the defense was equally convincing, - evidence - that the mathematician always app are o be drunk, even when he's cold sobe . A fellow Profes or from the Univer~tty of irmin ham told the court: •there 1s no other man I know who is more HA,THEMATI Q IAU - 2 likely to b e m istake n for a drunken man, w h en he is • ite sober.• He stag ere around, looks dizzy, talks muddled. Hence the verdict of - not guilty. Or rather - guilty of too much mathematics. LTP.1952.03.06i.pdf LTP.1952.03.06ii.pdf