FRANCE a 1 deal ~ L . T. -D ELC O. FRIDAY, DEC• 2 , 195 (G ven by Allan Jackson,L.T. in Zanzi bar) The F enc g overnment i eeued an order, today - halting n forei n currency. A three-day euepens i on - in fore n currency transact one. Th i s, apparently, confirms headline reports in Paris - that the French franc will be devalued. Which wae indicated further - when the g overnment ordered the Paris Stock Exchange to rema i n closed, today. All financial institutions were closed yeeterday, of course - for Chrietmae. The Stock Exchange - directed to mak . e today a holiday, as well. The word from Paris is that Premier DeOaulle is planning a series of spectacular measures to rfform French finance and economy. or which - currency devaluation is one. VATICAN Tradit onal Chr i stmas observances at the Vatican too k a turn of nternational politics, today_ when Pope John the for Twenty-t 'rd h eld a rece p tion d diplomate accredited to the papal state. It was noticed that two were missing. The Ambassadors from the exiled anti-Communist governments of Poland and Lithuania'lrhe former governments of thoee two countries taken over by the Communists retain - a sort of shadowy existence. The exiled government of Poland - having headquarters in London. In other countries they're not recognized, b u t ~ still maintain ambassadors at the Vatican. word in Rome is that Polish Cardinal Vyezinek1 ·urormed the Pontiff that, if' papal recognition were withdrawn from those non-existent governments - it would improve the poeition of the catholic Church in Communist Poland. So, today, the two ambassadors were not invited to attend the diplomatic reception at the Vatican. JAPAN There •e an uproar i n Japan, because of the pr ic e a contract o s c h ar n g - in the bui l di of a new royal p alace. A s mptuous res ide nce for Crown Prince Akihito. He' ll occupy th e new palace afte r h s marria g e to Michiko Shoda, daughter of a fl our m·11 e ' ecutive. The cost of the new mansion in the hea1 • t of Tokyo wae est i mated at - six hundred and forty thousand dollars. The contractor i n question has undertaken to put up the framework of stee l and concreet. So what•s he charging for that? Well, the price is twenty-seven dollars and seventy-eight cents. PNaideAt ef tAe waaaaa QeAatwot~QA QgapaAN, put iA tMi fi~re Mannosuke Kanbe, the President of the Hazama Construction Company ...11i 1 1 h tad i th i a -ef Aexl 5 8 Ae~AiRS, 1A4iJ ogntraetcpexp ans - e ~ o n g ~ out of l oya ty to the imperial family. Money is no object - where Crown Pr nee A k ihito and his bride-to-be are concerned. 0 why the uproar ? To k yo newspapers are calling the bid Oft t dollar Q and Qeventy-eight cents - insulting. wen y -seven ~ ~ The contractor's gesture is denounced as an •insulting courtesy• to t n e imperial family. · ell, we Americans can boast - that our building contractors over here are seldom guilty of such •insultin1 courtesy.• CUBA --- he Cuban rebel claim - they've seized full c on trol o f the Pr o v nee of Lae V 1 · a~, i n central Cuba. They say they, , re be..,;·e n he rov · ·nc .:.. al capital of Santa Clara, and will soon capture the cit - wh ch sonly six hours by car from Havana. The overnment at Havana adm ts the insurgents are in control of the countrye , de, but insists - the , cities are firmly in control of g overnment forces. O c a , lor a, t wo Lat n- mer i cans ua were o · n n n w a c a nno • Th e were ou t to s o o t bi rds and rabb i ts - · t a ent ·meter P ece of art ill er y , fir i n she l s ~even n c · e~ 1 n and an ·nc h and a al f t h c. At any rate, that•e t e ~to · t h e y are t e l in the p o i ce. T e wo Lat i ns in their auto m o bi le were pic k ed up for a traf f c v oat on, an d i n t h e car the cope found the cannon, w'th p l e nt of ammun i t i on. They stared at the artillery, and the~ stared a l l the h arder when the two Latins told their story. " W e were going hunting, Senor. Just a hunting trip - noth n g else.u The cops'1tle baffled, because there's nothing in the law wh·c h says - you can't o hunting with a cannon. one of the two La.tine is a Cuban, which raied the susp i cion_ that the arti11ery might h ave been intended for the Cuban insurrect o ~. MOO - 00\-J s, when o u travel s ome pl ac - ou ~a t a o o d p . nd ou• ave t - ·r tu travel to the moon. a 'ai.;tronomere today revealed - they're finish·n a ur e of e unar ~urface, whic t t~ll provide a virtual road ma for ~ o ace traveler~. They'll turn out contour maps, giving the oca 1 n and ~ i ze of the ountains, valleys and hills on the mo n. The progress of the ~roject was described at a meeting n Wash n ton of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Navy Astronomer Chester Walls de laring that the first o the moon wil 1 have a chart from which he can judge where to 00 and the trips to make when tll he lands on the surface or the queen of the night. Reports from China - that the Rede are being harrassed by revolts of nomadic tribesmen on the fringes of China proper. On Formosa, a news correspondent for the Columbia Broadcasting System, Eddie Tan, paseee along word ot insurrections all along the line or western China. Prom Tibet - to Mongolia. There is, we are told, "some kind of liaison bet11een the Hationaliste on Formosa and the rebels. Who are described ae Tibetan Buddhists and Mongol Mosleme. A weird air crash - in Africa. Where a French airliner, with seventy persons aboard - wae caught in a giant whirlwind. The plane took off from Johannesburg, and ran into a blinding African thunderstorm. The pilot stat1 . ng - that the whirlwind clutched the airliner, and flung it to the ground - like a chip of wood. He says the impact wae not particularly hard, but the plane caught fire. Three lives loet - the others of the seventy aboard escaping to aatety. 11110, 1Q_U£2BQllg Here's a page froa a recorded travel diar7. Lowell Tho■as - giving his iapreasiona ot a legen4arJ land off the east coast of Africa. (Becordin& l:SI) · ould Jou like to live in a tropical p aradise? And ha . ve JOU a little ca p ital? There's an o i> p ortunit.J waiting £or someone who will p ut up a aaall (aodern) high class hotel on the coral beach here at Zanzibar. Everr traveler who coaes to East Africa would like to viait Zaa1ibar. And at the rate travel ia being at•pped up la thia jet-rocket age, soon far oft Zanzibar will be oal7 a day •••1 fro ■ wherever Jou are. low if l was 7ouagerl There are get•••• a third aad a half a aillioa ~•opl• on theislaad part ot th• Sultan of Zan1ibar•s perfuaed paradise. (Pertuaed bl the pleasaat, puageat fragrance of clo~••· Zan1ibar bas a one-orop eoonoa,. 901 or the cloves of the world ooae fro■ here, and p rovide an eaa7 living for the Zansibaris. The islanders, nearl7 all Moaleaa, are a aixtur• of the races ot Southern and wouthwest Asia;- India, P eraia, and ea p ecially Arabiaaa froa Oaan nd H adraaout; p lu• th• people• of E a st Africa. The rulin faailJ is fro■ Muacat and Oaan • the Persian Gull, wnence sailors have been c 0111 ·ng to • b • t.anz1 ar s1nce before the dawn of history. Sindbad the S ailor, of the Arabian Uighta, ca•• her• and told of a bird so bi1 it fed full grown elephant• to ita young. Ae for the clo•ee, ••t of th•• do not wind gp in American apple pie. Although aoae do. And a £1• are an aid to the tired buain••• aan who atop• tor r1freahaent on hia way boae. The oda thin& t• that SOS of all the clove• are abipped, lik• coala to Uewcastle, to 'ndoneeia, for flavoriag cigarettea. Yet it was froa lndoneaia t ~ clo~e tr••• were aent to Zanaibar to be tranaplanted, 150 year• ago. Like auto• ia lraail, on tirea of rubber froa llala,a, tro■ tr••• taken to Uala7a fro ■ Brazil. Strange worlcl! There are ao■e 4 million olo•• tree• here. The ~uda are plucked just before they burst into bloo ■; spread out to dry, shoveled into bags, and shipped. The harvest in Au 6 u~t, September and October - ~;,ring in Ze.n1ibar, ~,T.-C~OVE_ Of ZANZIBAR - 3 here jue t sou th of the Equator, •here all seasons are about the saae. The rest of the year the Zanzibaris raise a bit of rice. .But why botber? The treea are laden with breadfruit, jack fruit, bananas, coconuta, nangoea and ao on. So, the people epead a lot of time Just haviq tua. • · or instance thl ltulltlght 11ason la on a1 aoon •• tbt clove harveat ia over. That•• right now. And a Zaa1ibar bullfight la one auch as you will never••• in Spain or Mexico. The bull is never killed - or even hurt. ln fact the bull to•••• aatador1 - and apectator1 - rigbt and left. They are putting on one o . f th••• wild affair• toaorrow, for ua. So 1 1 11 be telling 4bout it in ■J nezt. So long. - . . - · - ..... - - ;., :e .. s · ere · -- . - - . a , . r 1~ vhe revi s race, h re . . - .. .._... .... .. .. terference, and the h ree la ers in th ~ nd f The started a riot - and, in the next r c , turned h r fur on the on-coming horsee and ride re. T h, nd 1t;r r 1' th jockeys .., . riding into a hail o.f missiles. • •