GOOD IYIIIIG !V!IYBODY: The new ezplo1ion ha• occurred in Iran, the thin& that had been expected - a revolt Iurda. For da11 it had been anticipatea that tbe ooatinued So•i•t occupation of nortbern Per1ia would be acooapanied bJ t~• 1ettin1 up of 1till another aatonoao•• governaent - lurdi1h. TodaJ' · • n••• 11 a 1tateaent fro ■ l•beran that lurdi1h trib••••• ha•• re•olted and attacked Iranian 1arri1on1 - tbr•• places under 1ie1e, tbe 1oldier• of Iran holding out desperately agdinat the [ur4a. And still other reports at the Persian capital state that an autono ■ ous goYeraaent baa been proclai ■ ed - a republic of rurdietan. Thie new regi■e i■ ~aid to h■~-t"'.::t_~ ~ in the , city of lehahad - which i■ i■ th■ Sowiet &one of occupation, aa i• moat of the Iurdiah population li•lng in Persia. It would appear, froa the Teberaa 41apatchee~ that troublf■ong the I•rda baa beea brewia1 tor aoae tiae - and aow baa flared into the opea, with t~• procla■ ation or a Iurdisb repltblic. London gives ua the opinion that this new revolt ~ I i • • Iosco• a new excuee for refusing to withdraw the Red Army fro ■ northern Persia. Moscow, charged with treaty •iolation, can no• eite the rebellion of the turd• and aay _ it!a necessary to keep Soviet forces in those parts to preserve order. But, of cours , ~e Kurdish affair~uch broader " po11ibilities thaa that. The turd• occup7 border lands, not only of ~ersia, but also of Iraq and T,urkey, - &Dd 1uppoae ~ the Kurds in Iraq and Turkey were to join t~• revolt of the tribes in Persia. And - proclai■ the■ael•e• a part of the Iurdiah Republic. that sort of thing, ua&er the aponaorahip of Iosco• and aupportel bJ the ltd lr■J, •ould be a h••~J blow to !~.,.and to r{,.a here'• a tact ■oat 1harpl7 to the point:-The territorJ occupiea bJ the Iurda in Iraq includes 1tioae 1reat lesopota■tan oilfields. on fleet depena,4" p+t:1 for its fuel. .IDBDS This newest dev.elopaent of international crisia throws the 'beam o~otligbt on,i:ttle-kncm ' people in a rtaote part ot the world-- the lards. Ibo are they? What are they like? Thay are loalem noaada of the hill country -- with a history as loDg as it has been tarbal:an t. It features one aoat faailiar naae -- Ararat. Jes, Moant Ararat, on top of which loah and his arl ~ ~ ~ . said to hn~••4'- after the deluge. The larch hne their noaad dwellings in tbe regions that surround llount. Ararat. Bo w ancient a people they are is shown bJ the fact that the Kurds, in the dia times of the ancient past, conquered Babylon the Glorious. Babylon, renowned for Sargon and Baa■arabi. Later, as arcbatc records show, the turds participated in the alliance that ov.ertbrew wariite BineYeh -- Nine¥eh, over which Rebuchadrezzar had ruled. At a later date they figured in that famous classic of ancient Greec~ - - Anabasia. URDS - 2 In the Retreat of the Ten Thousand, as related by Xenophon, the Gr~eks had to fight their way throu1b Iurdiah tribes. And so on down through history -- the Iurd•~ _.. a race ot no■ad warriors. In recent ti■es, their country, divided, fell into the territories of Persia, Mesopotamian-Iraq 1 a~d Turkey. They have been frequently in revolt, and harshly suppressed, especiall7 by the Turt1. Yet their inclination for insurrection baa never been obliterated -- and today the Iurda appear in then••• as a convenient aeana of Soviet advanoe toward the Dardanelles on the one band, and the px Persian Gulf on th, other. And here's the latest. Soviet Russia bas Just asked th a t the ■ eeting ot the SecurityCouncil of the u.1.0., echedu l idtor next Monday, be postponed until April Tenth. Soviet _!elegate Gromyko explain• that lo1cow had not expected the uction of Iraa in lodgin1 a co■plaint with the U.N.O. - a protest against ~oviet action• in Persia. And ao - the Russians nee4 ■ ore ti ■• ta prepare their auwer. - -.,,,.,J ~ ii ) 11th Mo•cow asking a dela7, the United ltatea I ,~,-1~• requeeted that the Iranian-Soviet diapute be put first on the list of things to be co n aidered b7 e the Secu~it7 Council. • Soviet propaganda takes a new turn the 1u■■ oning or another acarecr•• - ato ■ ic dictator- ahip. Thie appears in a Moscow publication which declares that the United States is trying to uae the terror of the ato■ ic bo ■b to pro■ ote policie1 of i■peria~l~i ~ •~•~·------~ ~- -------- -- J le are told that i ■erican i ■perialists have a plan which the Soviet editor de1cribe1 •• fol ~ owa: •to utilize the di10overy or ato■ ic energy for aa■blina in foreign affair•• Thia accuaation is tied to the ato■ ic bo ■b teat at Bikini, in the far Paeific. The Soviet de1cription for the teat ii •brandiahing the ato ■ ic weapon for p•rpo1e1 which have little in co ■■ on with the peace and 1ecurit7 of nation•.• The A ■erican idea being, in the word1 of the Moscow publication: •to take advantage of ,. the preaent situation to establish a new atoaic i ■peri­ alisa, an ato ■ ic dictatorship.• flUU f The demand for another Big Three Confer~nce co ■es to a climax with proposals aade toda7 b7 Senator Claude Pepper of Florida. In aa address to the Sena!e in Washington, the Florida legislator aot only urge4 that a Stalin-lttlee-Tru■ an ■eeting be held i ■■ ediatelJ bat ala o auggeated that the Big Three get-together ahould be a full dre•• conference of lar1e scope aagaitude. Senator Pepper think• that a meeting of Stalin, lttlee aad Truman ahould be onl7 a part of a 1randioae diplo ■atic affair ia which the Foreiga HrrrK£I Offices of the Big Three~ pla.J their own part, and tit which Soviet, ~ritiah and Aaericaa ■ ilitar1 leaders would attend - together with representative• of bue~aesa, labor, agriculture, women, war veteran• and youth. That would ind ed be a super-conference, revolvin g around Stalin, 'ttlee ano. · uman. Pepper flPPIB - 2 think■ that this is necess ~ ry in order that the lestern deaocracies and Soviet Russia ea co ■ e to 1oae understanding and get rid of their war fears - the fear that each aide has of the other. In a long address, the Florida Senator propoae4 lite ise that Soviet Rueaia should be givea the atoaic 1ecret - al•• a big loan, the billion dollars that lloacow wants. Ae tor the Pepper boab proposal, the newa diapdtch troa Washingtoa puts it in these ord•: •1a agreeaent b7 the Uaited States, Britain and Caaada • to deatroJ their stock piles of atoaic boab•,~~heir facilities for aaking atoaic boabs, before sh a ring thl aecret with Russia for the peaceful appl ~ation of ato ic energy.• I L.1. l, I aup '" OS thf.t gi vin g the ato ■ ic secr-=t to the Soviets ■ ight ~ the · ears of loacow, but what •ou1· i t d o ~ = • ? · w f ~ ~ V ? ~ ___ "9- / 2 , , . . , . . . / , . . . ~._~~~~:!!.J::.. _____ 11111111111 _ _ _ _ 1111!!1111111!11.1-. . . - • • • The election re1ulta in Italy are ao■etb ln 1 of a 1urpri1e. They don't 1bow anything like the Left-litg trend that bad been expected. The election~ are tor local offices and have been held on con1ecutive Sundays -- return• fro ■ one 1ection and then another co ■ ing in week after week. The early count showed the Bight-Wing Chriat- ian De ■ ocrata in the lead, but that wa1 diacounted -- becau1e those first return• were fro ■ agricultural 1outhern It~ly, Sicily and Sardinia. It •a• believed that the big in ,. uatrial center• of the north, which are 1uppo1ed to be red radic . - ~, would re \_ rae the trend into a Lett-ling sweep. Today, however, returns reporting fro ■ all ~arts of Italy revea~ no such thing. The co ■bined ~artiea of the Left have a slight majority over t~e Conservative Groupe. ITALY - 2 - - - - The strongest of all the parties, by far, continues to be the Christian De ■ ocrata. In ■ ore that nine thousand local elections , the Christian Deaocrat ■ atood alon~ againat the coabined force• of the Lefti,ta, Socialists and Co ■■uniata acting ~ogether. In th••• oaaea the Christian Deaocrata ele•t•d tour thousand tour hundred and seventy ctticials. While the co ■bined Socialists, Co ■■ unists and other Lett-lingera, backing single candidates, elected four thousand ~hree ~~ndred and aeventy- ~hree. In other words, the Christian Deaocre~a, all b1 the ■ aelvea, are nearlr as strong as the Soci ~ liata, Com■un~~ts and ot~er Left-lingers put together. JDUUJ9 At the Nuremberg trial, the court today upheld Goering against Chief A■ erican Prosecutor, Supr••• Court Justice Jackson. Goering, a witness in his own defense, b~s been making speeches and harangues. '2nd 1 Jackaon · 0 de ■ anded that the court make the one-tia• lazi l~mber Two aan shut up, arguing that Goering was uaing the court witness box as a sounding board for apdtlin• of~ Raai propaganda. JacksoD requested t~~t Gom!.ng be aade ~ an1wer r 'estiona with •Yea• or •10• inatea'-l of goin& into c . •ationa. The judge is British, Lord Chief Justice Lawrence, and he rejected J a ckson's de~ 1d. Be said tha~ the Aaerican proaecu " ~ was - aak1ng too much o~ a s ■ all point: Lord Chief Justice Lawrence instructed Goerin& to answer •Yes• '">r •No• whenever possibl . ~ a . id he A cou l d ma~e furthe 4 explanations, whenever these w e re necessary. Go er in took advanta a e of th t to make some JJIIIIUli - 2 explanat·ons about evidence of anti-Seaitisa brou g ht up against him. Official lazi d ocuments q uoted hi ■ in a brutiah anti-Se ■ it : c role. Goering ad■ itted htving said the things of wh ~ . he was accuaed, but tried to ■ inlaize the■• I decJ~iaed in grandioae fashion: •Th••• utterances have no world hie Jrical sit~ifieance.• I sup oae h ieant 'h~t he wants to be hanged only for things that have a world historical sig~·ficence! Ba■bur1 havin& food rtot1 - led bf women lar1el7.. During the past thirt1-1tx hour ■, food bop• and railroad car~ ha~•~ en looted - ator■ed b,: rioter,, Qua.iti tie• ot tood ta' · .. ""' away:. TH• outbreak• began Jeaterday when a hundred and fif~y bou1ewi•e1, carrying ■ arket baskets, trted to foroe t · a.._ir ••1. into a bakery, ■tiop. Tb11 British autbori- ti•• atopped that, but it •a• only a beginner. La1t ni1bt tw, hundred wo ■en went raapa1inr , the rail- r, J 1ard1, and plundered box care contatnin1 t.ood. The riot-~g oontinu, today, with large n•■ • 1r1 of wo ■en attacking bakeri•• - breaking in and c~rrying off sacks of flour and loaves of bt _ a. • 11 of which is not surprising - for the great port of Bamburg is ~ n the clutch of f~mine. The British have had to cut rations down to such a point that earh day many cases are repo~ted of 9Ulll_[QQJ2_llill - 2 Ger■an• collapaing i ; the treeta because of in- ••tficient food. And ai ■ ilar ration cut1 are e·oected 100n in tbe A ■erican zone of occuraw . ~n - with the•••• ■ ort of ta■ ine and diaturbarae ■ anticipated - e · ~•rate aob1 ofi woaen ator■ in1 food aappJie1. In Pari~, the~ - ench Bluebeard had the court in an yproar tod Y - arousing both the prosecutor and the judg to gesticulations anger and horror. Dr. Marcel Petiot, the murderous physician on trial, has been sending chills up and~ ~ the Parisi~- •~ine wit · his cold-blooded Jtoiles of gruaao ■e ~c~ aeeaee1nation detai]e of,.c..~?elated with perfect n~~~h~lance - the Bluebeard clai ■ ing that hie ■ an7 Yictias were pre lazi collaborators. aurder. Today th fact was broug .t up that in to killing what be called •col}abo ators•, ht also murdered their girl fri e da. The prosecutor demanded sternly: •why did you kill also the sweetb~arts of these people?• •Well,ft responded Bluet ard, wwh t the devil cou d I do with them?• ~ L O ~BE A R D _ - 2 Tha t s e t t e p ros ec u t or off in t o a s pas m of s h outs an wav i n g o f ar ms. •Mon d i e u, d o you e r t hat?• he s h oute d . The outbreak oft e ju dg e came whe n Bis Honor ins t ruc te t e Bluebea r p h ysician t o describe he kil l in g of an un d erworl d c h aracter ca 1 led - •Francois he Cors i can." The doctor turne d t o t e ju ge w i th a sneer. "So you want to know the details?• he remar k e d . "I must say you have sadistic tastes.• Tat made the ju d ge roar - while the specta- tors laughed. " T hie is not a theatrical performance,• shouted the Fren~b magistrate. ' I h 0 n of a rbon, In iana ill s o o n e i thou a ba n k . It s l on e r · a nc . a l n i t i. J n i "\. s ho f o r c l0 L e1n a m o urn ful ea on, .a t e d y : s Pr es · d ent to ay . "L ~ t om bo d y else' a n be he o t fre uently robbed fin nc· a 1 in t·t u i o n in Indi a n a ," sa i d he. Bo ever , it cannot be ai t hat h an is closin g it s doors. The s e h a v e been cl o ed f or s ome time no. The Carbon, Indi a n, fin a ncial in titution w as the victi m of a five thou sa nd · doll r holdup and three other robberies. As a result, the bank president r e solved to keep the d oors locke d a l l the t i e -- even hile transacting busine ss . A depo s itor bad to banJ, on the oor, whereu on B a n ker ar hall would unloc , n d J et him in. He refuaed to admit anybody he i d nlt recognize. T h a t s eemed a robbery-proof way of st o pping hol u ps , but a l a s an ] alack! Themot r e c e nt episode c a e n Banker A a r hall tbou 0 ht h e e co ni ze two Jar.ax jpx Ii- e n : 0 er 0 ~ i n o a he r - - ·n l e e i n . . , , r e eu n hey i c · a · u i i , r ib an too .: i v Th t B . a l l i s A . e rs clo n 'T ' ot on y t h 00 ' b ut l s o th b 0 ' the b u si e an e ,: e ry t i g . ' hich e Ve,. Ca n , In i a n a , . i out a f in n i a i x at in s i tut · n, n c ons titut es s evere blo or the r bb e ry hnia. u p in out there. ~ \ A . . c , W ~ / ~ J L-l-(~1 u st ry