YUGOSLAVIA{TA&r.~, :.:J ~ ~ (J_ >~ • The Communist P a rties of Yugoslavia and Soviet Russia have made an a reement, p roviding for mutual oo eratton. The Yugoslav Party to have - "freedom of action." Which ls what Stalin opposed so bitterly. The new arrangement is outlined in a farewell communique signed by Yugoslav Marshal Tito and~ Secretary of the Russian Communist Party, Khrushchev. As Tito, today, concluded his visit to Soviet Russia. The deal seems to indicate a Left Wing line-up, with the Cononun1st partner of the Soviets getting a good deal of autonomy. AMERIC A - FR CE he nited ta tes and Fra nce issued a joi nt statement, today - summonin g Soviet Russia to agree on an effective disarmament program, with foolproof c ontrols. The declaration - made by French Foreign Minister ? ineau, who is in Washington, and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. but the ( Sov iet Russia announced a big reduction of manpower, ~ Franco-American view is that safeguards !:a surprise ~ atomic attack are necessity number one. FRANCE - ALG IA Fr n will offer A lgeria a sweeping program of p olitical r forms. Today, the Cabinet in Paris okayed a plan to give the native o ula ion a larger control of local affairs - with an increas of political rights for Algerian Moslems. EGYP gypt ut on a big military sho, today - with a display of a rmament rocured from the Reds. Includ i ng Russian built tanks and Russian built Jet planes. Moscow Foreign ~e 1/ 0 Minister Shepilov was there - cheered enthusiastically. PLANES M o scow char g es that . S . military l a n €~ have been 1 b u z ing 11 Sov i et w a rsh i s off the China c o a st. A Russi a n naval s q uadron is makin , what they call, a 11 courtesy visit to the C h ines e Co mmunist or t s, and the M o scow R adio st a tes the following: 11 Amer1can aircraft, like tiresome bumblebees, are constantly circling over the warshtps. 11 Just curious, having a look - I su p pose. he r g ntine government has order th a rrest of - Peron . Filing criminal charges against the former Dictator - accusin him of malfeasance in office and the misuse of publi c funds. Peron, of cou rse, is in anama, and today's order ould seem to indicate - a n attempt to tradite him. • 1 o n Y i g t I used one of my recor ins that ha J U t a rrived from epal. In oing so I mentioned that, possibly this evening, I ould m ■ have another. Iatm nu where I ent to the Coronation of - 1 ~ King Mahendra, as you kno, iW one o f the most remote cities on the planet. There is no regular mail service between Nepal nd the outside world. They do have their own postage stamps. and they hav e runners who carry mails over jungle and mountain tr a ils. But, Bepal does not belong to the Int e rn tional Post a l Union. Where my recordings have been is a mystery. Although many did get through and ~ere used by I■ Charlie Collingiood who took my pace, ot ers are l · "'or example, still drifting in from Cent r a as1a. & here is one: 4- 7 -- 0 a t I us d o 0 my or 1 s t at · as u t n from ep 1 . n o i o , I met o n d th a t ossibly on t I wou l V n o t e . tma n u, her I w en t tot e c o ron io n o f M a hen r a , is, s you kno , one of the most r m ote tie o n the ; no r e l ar m a 1 e rvic e b e t we en a l a nd t e out id ~o rld. They do v e th e ir on p ostage stam p and t y mountain tr a ils . ve runners ho c arry mails o v er jungle and t pal d oes not belong to the International P ostal Union. here my recordin shav e be n Q · mystery. lthough many id g et t hrou hand were used by Charlie Collingwood, who took my lace, others are still drifting in from Central i a . For example, here's one: Sitting across the table from me, at the coronation banquet, were three Ambassadors, Gazan F t ly Khan from Pakistan, Sijiro Yoshisawa from Ja p an and Sir ejiratny from Ceylon. The latter, for my benefit, I guess, told us a bout the visit our Secretary of State paid to Ceylon hot long ago. When he heard that Secretary Dulles was coming, Sir Wejiratny prepared a souvenir for him that must have been a real surprise for the guest from America. It seem that on his mother's side, Foster Dulles had a great- andmother and grandfather who were :he first Protestan t missionaries to gain a foothold tn Ceylon, that equa torial isle lost its independence to a r l t 0 o l o w 1 l y v o y ur u r o f t h T h n in h O) l O y l o n r V lt k h ritl in I n i a o com e ver a e l h m thr o off ir o pr ssors. The Br ti h did. But they st a y a nd th m y l on th ir colony. id ir ejir tny, ' h ri tL h · th th ir 11 ry o er took us over and lmost • t th sam tun our ecretary of t a te 1 s grand- parents won us s iritu a lly." ir We ir a tny spent months doing res a rc on t e lles anc e stors. He assembled all the information he could find about them and ot pictures of their graves at th northern ti p of the island, also an ancient hotogra h of the S e cretary's missionary grandmother. Just a story o f the thoughtfulness of an Oriental official. On of the most friendly of the foreign delegates here, in Katmandu, is O Ong So from Burma, who sat at my ri ht. Ong So is a Buddhist, a are nearly all Burmese, except the Chins, Kachins, Nagas and some of the other primitive mountain peoples who are Anamists. Burmese, like other Buddhists, are always seeking ways to ain merit and thus im p rove their chances of reaching Nirvana. Their own most famous Buddhist shrine, of course, is the olden Shwe D gon, the a oda that looms above Rangoon, built over some r lies of Buddha, including some hairs from his head. Ho ever, Buddha was born exactly 2500 years o , t 1 0\ 1 f 0 mv 1, - , r rm v r b n . 0 t com 0 s m 1 y n ountry w t out v s ti t irt 1 0 L o u h , the of r li on, hat ouldn' e ri ht. ithout llin an yon e , e sli ped a y, taking only retty, int Burmes if . In Kin Mahn ra' 1 n , h y fle 200 miles, then a fin 1 ou teen minutes ov r usty roa with ruts so dee that only a jee p could ne otiate it. T king lo er to make the fourteen than it took to fly the to hundred. Then back to Katmandu the same day. When I saw them on their return, 0 Ong So an his wife ere radiant, knowing that no in the eyes of their fellow-Burmese Buddhists they have ained great · neri t. t th coronation banquet, Ambassador O o explained to those of us sitting near him about the letter U, the U in U u - as you perhaps know this U is simply Burmese for Mr. or Ho nored Sir. In Burma, if you are a male and an On So from Mandalay, until you are thirty-five you are ddreszed as Mong Ong So. Then from thirty-five to forty-five you are Co Ong So. And only after you are forty-five are you ol enough to be called U. Then for the rest of your lif , you are U Ong So. It as 2:00 A .M. when u a n I nd all the rest of us raised our glasses and - 4- toasted1he King and ~ ueen, ending ceremonies that had lasted from dawn of one day almost - till dewn of the next. A day that began with ancient Brahmin rites, in an exotic, Nepalese Hindu temple. Then the royal procession with all the painted elephants and, finally, the state banquet. Some day! So long! So, that's one of the recordings that went astray, arriving days after I got home. Fr gru entary news pictures an enorm us disaster in remote Af gha nistan. Earthquakes, over this weekend, ri . ing ana tearin g a remote mountain region. A radio re , ort, from Kabul, the Afghan ca ital, _ stim a tes - two th o usand p eople killed. But various tr a velers arriving at the city of Dora Ismail ,ban, in P akistan, on the Indus, declare that the death list ia likely to be more than ten thousand. Giant masses of rock and earth were torn from the mountains - p ouring down, and creating a dam across the - [onhar River, in Eastern Afghanistan. Backing up the stream - and flooding the valley. Communicati o ns disru p ted - and only a little word ge ts thr o ugh about this new and overwhelming catastrophe of Nature. ATOMIC SHIP ( The ~ Senatefoted thirty-seven million dollars, iw,r- - for an atom-powered merchant vessel. A substitute - for the atomic "peace ship" proposed by President Eisenhower. The President wanted the ultra-modern craft, to demonstrate the peaceful use of atomic energy. The Senate votes the money for a camnerctal vessel with atomic engines,to go into the regular ah1pp1ng service. ) EISENHOWER ~ ~President • M-seftlwllap will issue a statement - , v \ . after he leaves the W · lter Reed Army Hospital, ~ whether, ~ his own second tenn intentions have been altered by his recent illness and operation. This is attributed to a White House official, who refuses to be quoted by name. He says the Eisenhower statement will probably come some time between July Fourth and Fifteenth. Maybe - while the President is convalescing at his Gettysburg fann. NARCOTICS The House passed a narcotics bill today - providing long jail terms for peddlers of dope. However, the House bill rejects the death penalty in extreme cases - as was voted by the Senate. So the two bills will have to be adjusted. CRASH - ~ The ex p lan tio n of that a ir crash seems to be - th t a r o utine safe ty p recaution went wrong. It's a common ractice for a p ilot, in case of difficulty, to jettison excess ga oline. But, seemingly, as the asoline drained out - it cau gh t fire. B rin g ing ii• disas ter to a Venezuel a n airliner - a little while after takin g off from New ork. Seventy-four lives lost - with twenty Americans among the victims. The worst misha p in the history of regular, scheduled airlines. The crash in the moonlight, was witnessed by . eople aboard two other lanes. Passengers aboard one seein the doomed lane lunge into the sea. The crew or a Co as t Giard am p hibian also saw it. The Venezuelan a irliner - strikin 0 the water with a c as cade of fla■ es and spray. There was an immediate air rescue search. But, no survivors. SOUTH ( Georgia, today, has lined up with South Carolina - accepting a proposal for the Southern states to fonn a solid front, in advance of the Democratic N tional Convention. The Georgia Democratic Executive Comn11tee says - okay, let's have a pre-convention conference. In March, the South Carolina Democrats adopted a resolution - proposing the plan. Which, according to sane, raises the threat of a possible Southern secession. Senator Kerr Scott of North Carolina calls the pre-convention conference idea - "D1xiecrat sugar-coating.•) MAYOR The Mayor of Des Moines, Iowa, has withdrawn the invitation he extended - asking the Mayor of a Russian city to visit Des Moines. "The COffllllunists are making hay out of it," says he. What kind of hay? Well, Mayor. Mills declares that the Reds have twisted his invitation into an endorsement of Communism. Which is the more painful - because His Honor is also the President of the A.F.L. group of unions 1n Iowa. The COllfflunist Daily Worker·or New York has used that invitation, in the Mayor's words - "to try to show the A.F.L. is now beginning to see eye-to-eye with the Ccn11Uniata." The Moscow Radio has also taken tt · t line. TRUMAN received were all ow about arricum Truman. The former President an honorary degree at Oxford today, and the proceedings in Latin, including his nam}~arricum . - honored tn with an oration - in the tongue of Cicero. After which, the academic degree waa presented to H rrlcum by Lord Halifax, former British Ambassador to Washington - who uttered words that Vergil or Horace could have understood. Harricum wore a scarlet robe and a university hat, antfie•s now an Oxonian Doctor o~ Civil ta/.' tltl,,.#rearte~ t5. , k ~ ~ . ~~-curi..-tna A Dr. Harricum Truman.