L. T> SUNOCO, THURSDAY. DECT^ER £4th, 1936 GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: Oil tills night of the coming of Snnta Claus we find Christmas merrier than it has been for years, That^is_In th_is land of ours. We are fortunate. While in some other ' 1 ^ _J- "L - ■ parts of the world Christmas comes with anxiety and misgiving. This was amply reflected in two radio broadcasts today. One by president Roosevelt, the other by pope Plus, The FresidenT^ln^bw^ to this nation, the pontiff spoke to the world. The former had a message of eheerfjil optimism, the latter had grave and anxious words, in one respect the two braodcasts were alike*. Both the president and the pontiff laid stress on International affairs, Mr. Roosevelt has pan-American matters much at heart since his recent visit to open the Peace Conference at Buenos Aires. *0 his Christmas message today stressed peace and good' will among the nations of the Western Hemisphere “ They'1 he said/make the oonfrlhution to Christmas with a gift of friendshipZ For the ills of peoples and nations the president prescribed — the Sam Sermon on the Mount* He said it would a fill human and national needs today, just as it did two thousand years ago. So mucjjF for the Presidential words - now the papal* . ■■ " "-'r Mr illpMlll Today»s message from the Eternal City of Rome was one of peace and good-will, hut you could hardly call it -- glad tidings. The Christmas Eve broadcast delivered to the world by Pope Pius had a tragic note of personal suffering and worldwide anxiety* In the voice that came from the loud speaker you could knx&ly hear the growing weakness of the aged Pontiff afflicted with grave illness. To those ***8^ heard the broad­ cast it will not be surprising to be told that after he had spoken his last word into the microphone, Pope Pius fell back exhausted. His physician quickly gave him a cup of hot broth, which revived him. Then he sank Into a deep sleep* The doctors had not wanted him to make the radio address at all. They knew what a strain it would be for a man so old and so ill.^It would have been a thing of pathos, even had the Papal message been cheery and glad — bright hopefulness to a world without anxiety or misgiving. But let’s see what Hope Pius had to talk -bout on this Christmas Evetf. In one place he used these words* "Signs and POPE -2 portents of the terrifying reality that is being prepared for Europe and the whole world." Meaning — war, the peril of a universal outbreak of strife. The Pope had especially in mind the Spanish Civil War. He called it a sorrowful note amid the joys of Christmas; described it as a horror of hatred, carnage and ■ destruction. The spirit of the aged Pontiff was burdened by the one thing he looks upon as the profoundest menace of all — Communism. He spoke of the Red doctrine as "The propaganda of the enemy and its constantly renewed attempts to bring about the ruin of the most fundamental principles of human society, of the family, and of the individual,". He called for a union against Communism and the atheistic agitation of the Reds. But the pope went beyond that. He used the phrase, "The malevolence of many misguided enemies of the Divine Child. a»'Hea^not only Communism but some of those who are attacking Communism. And here It appeared that he was referring to Ger­ many - especially when he spoke of those who were trySng to stamp out religion In the young and In the hearts of the young. This is made the more pointed by the fact that the Papal broadcast was not officially heard in Oermany today. It was not put on the air by any of the German radio stations. A dispatch from Rome explains that there is a new flare-up in the quarrel between the Hitler Government and the Vatican7""their quarrel over the education of Catholic youth. Several days ago Papal representatives in various countries arranged tx for rebroadcasts of the pope's Christmas Eve address, but in Germany the papaft NUNCIO was told -- that this, could not be done. Beyond this German exception, the broadcast was one hundred percent Christmas Eve and worldwide. It was so timed that it was received all over the globe at some hour on Christmas Eve,^ New Zealand got it just a couple of hours before midnight n ushered in the holy day. In this country the Pope's voice was heard at six o'clock this morning. At last reports, Pope Pius was resting in comfort, after an event without precedent;- An aged, ailing pontiff n«Hverinff bv radio a Christmas speaking^from his sickbed. Deliver! g y and anxiety for ft troubled Eve message of worry ggRQPK And it's indeed a oomplioated worlds We have an example of that in the declaration by pope Pius against communism — also against those aroh enemies of communism, the German Nazis, Today we find the capitals of Europe worried by the fear that Hitler may use the holiday season as an occasion for one of his sudden strokes — that he may hand the apprehensize world a Nazi Christmas present * Today's Papal broadcast calling for action against Communism was excluded from Germany. But what are the statesmen afraid that Hitler will doy They're afraid he'll launch something of his own against communism. The acute anxiety is that the expected Hitler stroke might taice the form of sudden powerful intervention against the Left V/ingers in Spain. It looks to me like a good guess that no such thing will happen. Hitler likes to go the unexpected. The Christmas season i3 normally an unexpected tine for a heavy political stroice. But ainoe Hitler is expected to do the unexpected right now, why that ian't unexpected any more, so he won't do it - if you know what I mean. However, Europe takes the possibility so seriously StJROPE - 2 that London is buzzing with apprehensive talk and the French govern­ ment is said -co have given a serious warning to the merman Ambassador to Paris* The Frenoh Foreign Minister is reported to have told the ambassador quietly but firmly, that Germany must stop sending fighting men to Spain, where thousands of Nazis are already fighting, if there isn't an end to this kind of intervention, the French government will be compelled to aot on its own aooount and send its forces to help Madrid. That*s what the Maris Foreign Minister is supposed to have said. A late dispatch olaims that Paris has new information about Germany intervention in Spain. The report is that Franoo has asked Hitler for 60,000 regular troops to help him crush the Left wingers - and that the Nazi Government is considering the request. There is word that London has joined Paris in taking a firm stand toward Germany in the Spanish embroglio♦ The Franco-British stand is described as all the more confident, because Mussolini is reported to be oooling off toward Hitler and those Spanish entanglements On top of that, the Frenoh chamber of Deputies has passed a bill to make a huge loan to Poland. This financial transaction indicates that the ties between France and Poland have been stren- gthened, their old allianoe reaffimed. Since France is on one side of Germany and x>olland on the other - the logic io — air EUROPE -5 There has been a dangerous threat in the Spanish rebel seizure of a Soviet Russian ship stories of burning the vessel o and killing the crew* Tonight another story of seizure, but it*s the other way round -- the Left Wingers capturing a German ship* It’s reported that a war craft of the Socialist Government stopped a German freighter and took it to the Left Wing port of Bilboa. The Russians are angry about their ship and I suppose that now c is the time for the German to be angry about their own* — 0 ,4 ^ ? Spain oelebrated chriet.nae Eve With a pitohed battlei a clash of anns. a flare of what Pope Piue called -"terrible reality .*1 We have been hearing that the Christmas spirit had softened even the bitter hatreds of the Civil War, and that both sides were taking a holiday in the bat the for Madrid. That's true enough today so far as Had rid is qoncemed. There where shouts of Christmas greetings one side to the other. There's a pleasant story of a Rebel officer who wanted to spend Christmas with his family in the Capitol, and this was permitted by the Left Wingers. A Socialist officer went over to Franco's lines to be held as hostage for the safety of the Rebel in his Christmas at home. The ± m beleaguered Capitol was cheered by truck loads of Christmas presents. General Franco got a truck- load of champagne for a yuletide present* Tills he sent to his fighting men in the battle line. But tiiese displays of Christmas spirit are only part ^ of the story from Spain tonight. There was no holiday spirit to the North of Burgoo. Nor days left Wing battalions fro* the SPAIM - 2 North have been pushing toward that old city whieh is Rebel head quarters. Without stirring up headlines, they have been advancing dangerously. So today Franco's men struck:. Instead of waiting for the attack on Burgos they took matters into their own hands by launching an attack on their„own. There was a battle to the North of the city, several .hundredL left dead on the field. It seems to have been an indecisive affair, neither ti side claiming much of a victory. Just some of that terrible ended. The informal armistice was limited to Christmas Eve, and the shelling has begun again -- Rebel cannon bombarding the heart of the capital. reality.^ The latest is that in Madrid the Christmas spirit Is ENGLAND Ov er England - what > s the toast for Ghristmas Eve? Many an Englishman looked forward, to the festive occasion to clink glasses and cry out, "To His Majesty, King Edward the Eighth" but Britishers have had to amend that toast Tonight in London the proper form is, "To His Majesty, King George the Sixth, the Queen, Queen Mary, and other members of A the Royal Family";but as many of them drink, they'll be thinking of the Duke of Windsor, having his Christmas in a castle in Austria. / The Ex-King celebrated Christmas Eve with a telephone call to the wotpan he loves. From the Rothschild castle in Ihzesfeld^ Austria, he put in a call to Mrs. Simpson at Cannes, and they exchanged Christmas-greetings*^ Then the Duke of Windsor presided at a Christmas Eve festival in the castle, and helped ^distribute gifts among the children of the neighborhood, CUBA FOLLOW EUBOPE Cuba entered a new end critical period today — with the inauguration of a new President, (sharply at noon Dr. Federico Laredo Bru took the oath of office as President of the island republic^) ordinarily, an inauguration, especially one on Christmas Eve, should be a cheerful sort of event, but let’s look at a few facts of recent Cuban history. The new he^d of the State is the tenth President Cuba his had in four years. His predecessor, Gomez, was the first Cuban A President elected constitutionally since the overthrow of the Machado regime four years ago. Now he has been forced out by th«t A army iron man, Colonel Batista. Of course, the proc* -dings were constitutional in form, Gomez impeached .before the Cuban Senate with all legal formality.^) Nevertheless, the hand of the mili­ tary chief is visible at every point in the proceedings. Bat­ ista was determined to put through his program of taxing sugar to establish army controlled schools for rural children. The —i -»— — President opposed, and _so 'ut went the President. d Gomez, made no real attempt to defen* himself before the courtC£'«iH’enate that tried the impeachment. He declered | A . . -w- . ..... ^ lie hadi^t a chance, said he knew that Batista was in control.^ He denounced the present State of &ffairsjv a Democratic form of government with an army iron man in the background. He added that it would be cheaper and better if Batista were to become openly the dictator. *It would be logical and sincere.1* he declared, "were the reform apostljp of the new era {meaning Batista) to install himself in the presidency." Anyway, Gomez is out, and the vice-president succeeds him — as on this Christmas Eve Cuba enters a new administration of perilous politics JERUSALEM FOLLOW CUBA Tonight * s theme of a troubled world began in the Eternal City of Rome. Let*s end it in the Holy City of Jerusalem. Two thousand years ago there was the shining of the Star of Bethlehem. Today it was the glistening of bayonets — Jerusalem under heavy military guard, patrols of soldiers marching through the streets. This year the usual celebration of Christmas is at a minimum. The seasonal swarm of pilgrims has failed to arrive. Of American tourists, who customarily fldck to Jerusalem on the Day of the Nativity, only a few were to be observed in the streets today. The crowd of celebrants- ape smaller than in years. The Nineteen Thirty-Six commemoration of the great Christian feast is impeded by the strife in the Holy Land — the strife between the Mohammedans and the Jews, Christianity uncomfortably in the middle between Islam^ and Israel* Theref W-ULjf imminent danger of ^ flare-up between the Arabs and the Zionist colonists. So a less joyful, a less festive Christmas dawns for Jerusalem this year. £&-------:-------------------------- ----------------------- ------------ ii ____ HOB OSS FOIiLOW JKRUSALEtU But l©t1 s put aside all those thoughts of dark misgiving. net's go on to the glad tidings that properly oome for Christmas, Here's something — something that should os use many a joyful ory tomorrow — the cry, :;Father is home for Ohri stmas 1,T Word from Cinoinnati tells of a proclamation issuec by one who oaXls himself King of the Hoboes, In fact the King has issued an ultimatum to his subjects. He has ordered all hoboes to return home for Christmas* "We want all the boys off the road," he says, "and at their firesides on Christmas Day," So, as the hoboes go home far and wide the glad ory will ring out at many a happy fireside: "Lookl father is home fo r Chria tma si" so, Merry uhristraas to ell — ana so long until Christmas.