1~T~-=-g--=--R-~Q~- ~ I D ecember 23, 1954 (Ch a rles Co l l i ng~oo d - sub s titutin g 1 C. C .: G OO D E ' tHNG, , V fi' RYBODY! C OL. U N I T P A RTY --------------- The Gnited S tates Court of Ap p eals has decided that the McCarran internal security law ia constitutional. That's the law named after the late S enator Pat McCarran, of levada, which demands the registration of the Communist Party._re«ietration ae an agent of Moscow. , The law was passed in 1950. The Com m unist Party protested, b~t in 1953 the Control Board upheld the law so the Party took it to the Court of Appeals, claiming in general and articular that the McCarran Law is unconstitutional. low, we have a ruling by the Court. The court says that the law is OI, bat the judges split over the issue, 2-1. The dissenter, who was Ad g e ~ David Bazelon, who arRued that to make the Co ■ munist Party register would conflict with the 5th Amendment. Ju1 ea Barrett Prettyman, and John Danaher took the opposite line. In . ' their words, the ri~bt to free ex p res s ion cea s e s ai the point ~ h ere it leads to harm to the Govern m ent, s o the Court of A p neals bas ruled by a 2-1 vote ttat the C om m unist P a rty o f A meri c a mu s t c f f i c i a l l id entify itse l f for w h · t t h e Court ag r ees t a t i t i s - a n a ent o f the K remlin. n a•torney for the P a rty s a ys th a t the ec i sion is al l w ron g a nd adds t ha t a n a p p eal ~ il l b e made to the Supreme Court. ITALY ----- The Italian Chamber of Deputies ha s r~tified the Paris accords on the rearmament of West Germany. Premi e r Mario celba won one of the ,1g ~ e s t parlia ■ en­ tary victories in the hi s tory of the Italian Republic. The D@putles voted for him and for the W e s t German accords by a majority of a hundred and twenty in a total vote of less than s·x hundred, which, if you've been following Italian politics at all, is a handsome margin of victory in that country. Premi e r celba came out·so well because both the Monarchists an d the neo-Fascists went along with his coalition g overnment on the issue. The Communists ~er e the l osers because they g ot virtually no one to vote ith them, s o, t h e Italians be a t t h e French in the race to r a tify the pl a n f or Germ a n rearmament. P remier Me d es- F r a nce wan ts a b i g victory in t h e P a ris C h am b er of D e p uties, b ut P r ~ mi p r o celba ba s alrea y w on a bi~ v i ctor y i n - 3 - the Italian Chamber of Deputies. The French Premi r is havin a bitter strug le with hi~ De uties. Today, he warned the Chamber that if the French tu~n down the Paris accords then America will re a rm Germany a nJhow, ith or without France. Mendes-France added that the isolation of France almost hap , ened last · £ptember, after France had killed EDC, becauee ashington was ready to go ahead on its own. In spite of the warning, the lebate in the French fiational Assembly continued and continues bitterly and t ere's no hint that lendes- France will win anything more than a very close victory. has That stor■ in the lorth ~ea/caused three Dutch iJk ■ •x* ■ dikes to collapse and the sea poured inland oYer part of Rotterdam. More than Pixty acre• are under two-and-a-half feet o~ water; seventeen hundred persons are homeless, and the rising tide is threatening to inundate ■ any places in other parts of Holland and Belgium, the Low oountries as they call the ■• So far, the death toll from the storm has mounted to scores. lost of those have been lost in ships at sea. And the atora is still going on, - 4 - p un in the coa 0 t from Denmark all the way around to the e as t coast of Brit~in. C ' H ----- txi ■ *• In this country a deta~hment of soldiers is still searching the waters of the Mono ■ gahela River for the bodies of servicemen who were killed when their plane crashed last night. The a irliner came down about twel e mile upstre a m from PittQburgh, near Mciee ■ port. All the men m naged to get out before the plane sank and no bodies were discovered in the fuselage. The deaths were caused a par!ntly by the icy waters, the Mono ■ gahela frigid this time of year. Eighteen of the men swam to shore and were rescued. Ten either drowned or died of exposure. The tragic end for soldiers on their way home for Christmas. INDO-CH!NA ---------- Our Embassy in aigon, Indo-China, today arned A mericans to stay ~ ithin the city limit. The arnin~ follows a number of at t acks on foreignenin outh Viet-Nam. The British Embassy is said to be considering a similart warning to British n atio nals and the French authorities have already ordere d their - 5 - soldiers not to travel in single •ehicles. This order, the resu l t of the murder of two French officers who were aabushed in their jeep. Violence is breaking out in Saigon it~elf. Last night a greaade was thrown into a theater crowd, wounding two persons. It was the fourth such attack wi~hin a week; South Viet la■ clo1er to co ■ plete chaos than it has been since the nation was partitioned and the Reda got the lorth. Several yeara ago, Lowell Tho ■ as turned oat • a boot, •Back to Mandalay, · . about one of the most extraordinary exploita of World War II, an all-air in•aaion by gliders of a jungle ar.ea behind the Japaneae lines in Buraa. Two young American air■ en, Colonel Phil Cochran and Colonel Johnny Aliaon, collaborating with a legended Britiah Commander of guerrilla war. Wingate of Bur■ a. That's the background for the recorded report we ha•• fro ■ Lowell tonight. - 0 - L.T.: I' ■ at London airport. We're about to iake oft for lorth Africa on board a British plane this time, called an Argonaut, and out here at the flying field I just encountered a young Engliah■ an who ser•ed with Phil Cochran and Johnny Alison in Bur ■ a during orld - 6 - ar II, Be was with *~■ xi their British outfit, a gunner, I think, in mortars. Did you ever actually see anything of Wingate? ~PEAIER: Oh, yes, ingate was over there (unintelli- gible-voice fades-telescop swords) training tiae in (?), in India, and he'd look in on everyone during the expedition it ■ elf because he actually (unintelligible an4 interference) expedition. THOMAS: What i ■presaion did you get of Wingate•• a personality because he was supposed to be a little bit e1centric? SPEAl!R: Be was a little eccentric and he waa inspired I think i1 the word you could use in • • • in connection with Wingate. Be had peculiar eye1 that infected everyone as aoon aa you looked at hi ■• Be 1ot (unintelligible) every ti ■ e. Be was one of tho•• people that i t he caae into a roo ■ crowded with people auto ■ atically everyone look• up and at hia. One of tho•• characters that it's i ■ possible to sua up in a few wor.41. THOMAS: Did you ever notice the curious way in which he turned his head? SPE A lER: Yes! Yea! Be had a peculiar • • • that was a habit of his. THOMA: Do you know why? SPEAIER: lo. TH AS: EPEAIER: TBOII AS : was in a hia head !:>PEAIER: THOMAS: SPEAIER: set he Well, he had his throat slit once. Did he it now? Yes! And as a result of that his bead position and whenever he wanted to turn had to turn hia whole body • • • (interruptio■ (unintelligible) had a stiff ect. **• Actually it was. Yes! THOMAS: Well, actually, his neck • • • hie tbroa\ was not alit by someone else, he slit it hi ■ selt. SPEAIER: Did be? TBOIIAS: In anger, he was 10 ■ ad on one occasion, before you were in contact with hi ■• Be was di1plea1e4 with the way things were going ~gainat hi ■, the way the Govern ■ ent was running tbe show, and be decided to co ■ mit suicide and cut his own throat. S EAIER: Hmm! That's the sort of thing I can imagine hi ■ doing (unintelligible). THOMAS: In protest. But an extraordinary ■ an, of course. PEAIER: ··••! - 8 - TBOIIAS: lell, Henry Chezlitt, did you ••er see anything of the American airmen who did come out and 1er•• with you? CB!ZLITT: Oh, yea! Yea! e had a lot • . • we had ••erything (unintelligible), absolutely everything. TROIAS: Cochran's youne,ladiea, you called the ■? CH!ZLITT: Yea! TROIIAS: Well, where did that tera co ■• troa? I n•••r heard it before. CBEZLITT: Well, t h ere J used to be a great iapreaarlo theatrical i ■ preaario in London, Charles B•nne , tt Coobraa • • and he was taaou1 for hie chor•• 1irla, and that••. ■aoh the · •••• as Metro-Goldwyn-layer baa been in the fil ■ iadaatr7, and his 0horu1ea and the actrea1e1 that be brou1ht forward (uaintelli1ible) in the profe11loa were known as Cochran'• young ladies and a flock of A ■erican ai~••n coaln1 alon1 with (unintelli1ible) all o•er their back (unintelli1ible) Cochran wae just too auch so they were ob•iously Cochran's young ladies (drowned out by laughter). TBOIIAS: one of the aost spectacular operations ot ' orld Jar II, that is, you were landed by glider behind the Japanese line• at night. Do you re ■ e■ber anything about it7 - 9 - CBEZLITT: It's all very confusing, of course, (unintelligible) we were snatched up by the Italian aircraft and • • • THOMAS: Cochran's men? CBEZLITT: Cochran's men, and (unintelligible) glider that I was in very luckily ca■• down quite early in the proceedings, but aa the night wore on 10■• • • • so many gliders were trying to get in at once and th•r• were several crashes and entangle ■ enta with the tr••• • and at one ti ■ e they tried to stop the whole operation. THOMAS: What did you think of the glider ■,■a•tt■ operation? CBEZLITT: liit■ 1 I think it was a wonderfully conceived (unintelli1ible), wonderfully co~ceived. COLLIIGWOOD: Thank you, Lowell! that was a faacinatin1 discussion. - 0 - c.c.: IB!_!!QL!_l:!!l!~ A dispatch fro ■ Bethlehem describes Christian pilgrims receiving a friendly welco ■e in Jordan tonight. Since the end of the war with Israel, Jordan has general- ly shown a cold toleration at best to the pilgrims visiting the Holy Land, but this year it's different. - 1 0 - t According to the Bethlehem d ispatch, gui d e s are no w posted at the bor d er to receive the ■; tourist offices reaainin g open eighteen hours a day and the Arab pres, is urging the Moslems of the area to be helpful to the Christian visitors. The first group pass•d from Ierael into Jordan today through the famous lendelbaua Gate, •hich divides the Jew6sh part of Jerusalea fro ■ the Arab. The vanguard was made up of a hundred and twenty pilgri ■ 1 ■oat of them from the United Statea, Canada, and Latin Aaerica. It's expected that there will be at least aix thou1and before the Christaas holidays end. President Eisenhower and the Firat L ~ iJ are 1pending Christ■ ae and New Year's at the Little White Rouse, the · cottage by the golf course, in Augusta, Georgia. Th• President will bold conferences with his top adTisore. They'll work on the three aajor aessage1 that the President••••• to the new Congress - the State of the Union, the budget, and the annual econoaic report Today, a lest Point cadet hitched a plane ride fro• washjngton to Augusta, Georgia, which doesn't sound remarkable because cadet Willia■ Peters li••• in Albany, Georgia. Re wanted to get ho■ e for the Christ- ••• holidays, but Peters was invited to share a plane by - 1 1 - Colonel W illi a m Draper and the story is this. hen Peters got aboard he found that it was the Coluabine III, Pr•~ident Eisenhower's personal plane, and Colonel Draper is Ir. Ei1enbower•s pilot. The astonished cadet fl•• with the presidential party down to Augusta and then went on to his h o ae in Albanfy, Georgia. That should gi•• hi ■ a pretty good start tor the Chriat- ■ aa holidays, don't you think, Bugh?