Generaliesiao Stalin, Communist Czar of all the Ruasias, admits the Soviets have not yet discovered the secret of the atom bomb; he i1 indifferent to the presence ot A■erican warship• in the Yediterranean; he doesn't believe the right of veto has been overworked in the United lationa aeetin&•• Also, Stalin doesn't like Churchill, call• hi ■ Mor the foreaost incendiary of a new world war. ia ~ r n e d about present relations wfth the United States. All this caae to light toda7 in an exchange • of question• and answers between Bugh of the United Preas, and Preaier Stalin. It waa what paaaea in Russia tor a pre•• interview, Marshal Stalin, receiving written queationa, and deigning to answer soae or all. Thia ti ■e he answered all of the ■ -- !ft.,.{. all thirty-one aubaitted by~Baillie of the United Preas. The answers were curt, aometi ■ ea clear, none comprehensive. Samples can be taken at random. All told, 111. ilAll!t - 2 the replies hold out new hope for agreement between East and West - with some exceptions. One question lialta was: •Is the United lationa Organization a guarantee of the intactness of small nations?• Reply: •~o far, it ia difficult to aay•. •1a there aounting tension between the So•i•t Union and the United States?• •10•, aaid Stilin.-- '"'{"'his despite man7 aigns of aucb tension. lot long ago, Mr. Churchill char1ed, in the Bouse of Coaaona,that Buaaia ••• •• aaintaining two. bundred-di•i•iona in •••tern•• Europe - that would lie a f■•■ force ot . , . ~ two ■iUioa •••· ·• 1ot ao;' aa71 Stalin," 1ixt7 divisions ia all •• i1111ian1 haYe in the occupied territoriea fro ■ the Baltic to Vienna and fro ■ Vienna to the Black Sea. And those aixt7 will be reduced to fort7 sooa." lt was in reaponae to this question that Stalin called his wartiae colleague, Churchill •war-minded•. { Does he Of course the question of Germany caae up. believe that the four zones of occupation ,11!-STALI! - 3 in Germany should be abolished, restoring Geraany as a peaceful economic unit and lessening the burden of occupation on the four powers? The Stalin reply:- 'It is neceaaary to re-establish not only the economic but the political unity of Ger■ any•. Then, here!a an intereating one:- le all recall how the co ■ munist-spohaored part1 recently ~ •••••snowed under inf■unicipal election• in Berlin. ~ lell, the question Bugh Baillie a1ked •••= •Do 7ou feel confident 1 tn the light ot election ■ which have been held this au■aer and tall~that Geraan7 i1 developing politicall7 along deaocratic linea?• Stalin's answer: 'l'a not 10 sure ot it tor the tl ■e ~eing•. The Ruaaiana ~•shad placed great faith in the Red party in Berlin. ~ 9 1 Deaocratic proc••••• it lost. But Stalin sees nothing Democratic in the result. Then, of course, Yugoslavia. That question came up, too. And Stalin, remarking on Yugoslavia'• decision not to sign the Italian peace treaty 1aid: Ill STA~! - 4 •Yugoslavia has grounds to be diaaatisfied•. --~"lnere were ■ ore questions, and anawera, .. a "8"1"----f•Y =-iato •lie- e,-nM es,N,ecl -,a~,er. 1 • and then Stalin ended tbia interview - or queationnair4 -- by sa1,ing that lu11ia ia atill interested in obtaining a loan fro ■ the United Stat••· ~ §J'ALII BIACTIOI lhen Stalin apeaka, the world liatena. Said Republican Senator Bickenlopper, '...--,,. • · .. - . . ' - . - . of Iowa, tonight:- •it would 1ee ■ to ■e that the areatest threat to peace ia the failure o~ nation• to discuss th,ir relations in the apirit of aood- ' In the United lationa Aaseably, le• Zealan4 today jcined the ••all power~ protesting against the •e · to power of the Big FiTe. The lew Zealand apoteaaaa said that the Teto buainesa, has defeated the worl4'• hope*• of collectiTe 1ecurit7. Be ter■ed the aarriage of the Teto to the Baited lation• charter a 1hotgun weddin1. lakia& it iapoaaible to a■end the charter without the conaent of each of the fiYe powera. •Conaequent17• he contin••• •thia infant or1ani1atioa ~ ... ""..,,.,.,,~ ...... haa been brou1ht into the world with it• hand•~ ... ..,. .... and it• feet a■ fettered•. In place of collectiYe aecurity•, 1aid the lew Zealand dele1ate, •le ha•• a 17ate■ which i• aeither collectiTe aor aecure•. The head of the l&Jptian dele1ation to the u.1. apoke out today prote1tia1 against the preaenoe of British troop• in hia country. le offered a aotion that the preaence of th• ar■e~ forces of one nation on the territorJ of another aaaller and peace-loYiDI country be re1arded an abuse of power and an iafringeaent of a0Yerei1nt7. Ll-2 lhile thia protest was being aade in le~ York, oY&r in London Priae liniater Attlee denied that hia goYernaent had consented to turn oYe~ the Sudan to Egypt. Be said the atateaent to that effect by Preaier $idki Pasha at Cairo yesterday •a• aialeading. Be ~ explained that there haYe been aoae preliainary conYeraationa, and that•a all. Coarade Iiailev, roreiaa liniater of lhite lu11ia, 1a71 the oppoaition \o the Teto 11 an atteapt to break up the unaniaity of the Big 1iYe power,. It would ■ean 1etti•1 one country agatn1t another, one bloc again1t another, 1aid he. In tact would aean the end of the United lation1. And, he joined l17pt in oritioisina the preaence of Aaerican and lritiah Troop• in Yariou1 parts of the world - aocuaina both of tla1rantl7 Yiolating the charter ot the United lationa: interferina in Greek ~ffaira, the nuaber of Britiah R I - 3 troops in E17pt exceasiTe, British air force• in I••• Iraq, and British troopa on the border of Iraa, Aaerican troopa in Chica, and ao on. BE B~LG!R . l i - Here's the late~t on the Bulgarian elections. The Coamunists have won three hundred sixty-four seats in the ~ofia Parliaaent to a-hundred-and-one ~ ·t · t· \e; ' ♦ i for/'-oppos1 10n par 1es~--~ thats quite - surpr s e , - one-hundred-and-one seats for the opposition. For it's not healthy to be an anti-Coamunist in Bulgaria these days. GERMA Y -- Q I S:alD:e hun red an d f i f~y thousand G ermans, /\ mostly techni c ians and hig hly skilled artis n s , are goin to Russia . o t of the m ~ oin · heth e r th y ike it or not, ha v e contract s . ' """' &A Berlin. " althou h four hun red of tbaa apparently A ~ w - - t ¢ ~ That ' s a:1:cd. Ame r i c an Off i c er s r •po•· t A. · -- -1\ . Accor d in g to the British, th e total number of erman specialists to be deported into the land of the Soviet Union will reach two-hundred-and-twenty-five thous nd. The Soviet Military Government is taking a -~~ ~a.JR census in its German Occupied Zone,.At:o Pout eat all,., skilled orkers. The British Government has asked the [remlin for in for mation about this business. A dispatfh from Vienna report s that the ~ Soviet Ag e n t s ~ also~rou nd in g u p specialists and skill d technicians in Vienna. Fascism may ha v f- be en defeated in war , but it is by no mens des troyed. To da y w a s the t wenty-f ourth anniversary o i u ssolini's historic B l ack Shi rt March on Rome in Nineteen Twenty-Two. T 1 roughout the Peninsula, thousand s of the late Duc e 's followers staged a demonstration, with not onl y flags but bombs. The poli ce arrested s c o r es e-f --t,.lle-P~tt--e~ :..,1d tore down hundreds o f the Black Flags. evertheless, soldiers had to be ,A,( called in to dispose of the bomb · s. One of thea was found A p lanted outside the Parliament Buildinj• ~n Rome. If it hai ex loded, it would have destroye~ entire A ~~~~. L~~Ry wing of "'W,e Ch•8'4a ~ a r t . 11 nst: ••~ it was dis covered befor e it went off. expee~, in the -South, pa1ttcalarly ia and •reana ltple~ President Truman today ■ade public a long letter he had written to Ibn Saud, the Arabian potentate. In it he deniedthe charge ■ ade by Ibn Saud, the charge that our govern■ent, in supporting Jewiah demands in Palestine, is reniging on proaisea aade by President looseTelt. Said Mr.Tru■an: The United States is definitely living up to Mr. RooaeTelt~s proaiae that Oncle Sa■ would take no action about Palestine without consulting the Arabs. But he added that Ibn Saud must reaeaber that the American people and the Aaerican governaent, have been in faTor of the creation of an independent Jewish state in the Boly • Land. That's the way Kr.Tru■an expresses it: •The Aaerican people and the American govern ■ent.• The President pleaded with the Arab aonaroh to use his great influence in the Arab world, toward aolving the Palestine proble ■, a solution that •ill ~•• be per■ anent. Be even asked Ibn Saud to back up the American suggestion for a hundred thousand Jewish refugees to be allowed in Palestine i ■mediately • fALESTIIIE - 2 just as an emergency measure. In his letter the President said he is trJiDI to find a haTen for hoaelesa Jews here in our country, as well as in other countries, and he hopes the Arab states will take their share. The Arab leade~s haTe frequently declared, added Mr.Tru■ an, that th-rwould take in•• their ahare of Jew ■ if non-Arab statea would do the aaae. And he explained that he is now rea _ dy to ask Congress for a apecial law to adait ■ ore Jews into the United States. President Truman today appointed Uncle Sam's Atoaic Energy Co ■miaaion. hat Coaaiaaion will have wide authority over all foraa and application 1 of atomic power. The ne w chairaan is a lawyer, David I. Lillienthal, for thirteen The other aeabera of the Coa■ iaaion are Louis A. · Strauaa, a le• York banter, and tor■ er Adairal, R. F. Bacher, a phyeiciat of l ■a Cornell, and Suaner Pike, formerly of the SecuritJ and Exchange Co ■aia1ioa. Also there will be a aeaber representing the American Association of Petroleua Geologists and another the Aaerican Geographical Society. MARITIME STBitl The Maritiae Strike is o•er. At least on the East Coast and in gulf ports. Picket lines~•• have disappeared, officers and crews are on their ships once aore -- one-thouaand-one-hundred-and- eighty-one of the ■• Thia has been the ■oat expensive ahippin1 atrike in history. At the port ot le• York alone, there are aoae twel•• thouaand carload• ot grain and products of all aor\a, waitin1 to be ■xJi exported. To hundreds ot thouaanda ot people, the iaportant thing about the endin& of that strike is that in a few week• they will be gettia1 suaar aaain. STRIKE - S i n ce Ap ril Thirtiet, t he orkers o the All i s - Ch lmers Fact o ry in M il w aukee ' manufactu r in g farm machi n ery, have been on strik e . Today t here w 8 a battle r o yal ou ts i d e the gate, which resulted in numerous black eyes and broken noses. T he mas s of the strik . ers, apparently, had grown tired of being out o f work. So they started to return to their jobs. But ta c.r.o. laiu& Leaders, of the United started mass p icketing to bre~k up this return-to-work movement. The police tried to protect those who wanted to work, and the sheriff of the county refused tot ke action. -1:e the Company aske~overnor"l,;odl&iic! 8'f ,... /\ Wisconsin to hil vwtt.z@=itl~ restore order. Te C h ief of f olice re orted that sev e ral of his ~ made arrests, buAfe mob of picketers took tkazi " 1P thet::r p r i soners aw a y from them. The princip a l issue in this strike is a m a i n t ena nce-of-membership-cla 1 se 9 which means virtually that anybody w ho d o e s not ■■ ii belong to the union do e s not w ork a t t hat f a ct o r y . £0AL tnl; There will be no coal strike, at least .-, for t he p resent. The Federal Government has yielded to the demands of John L. Lewis to reconsider the ~ contract~ which the men ent back to work after Mr. Truman sei z ed the min s. So the issu e will have to be - ~ argued all over agai~,(the present fa contract~ ~ remain in effect so long as the negotiations last. But A this truce will endure only up to November Twentieth. ~~ l. Lewis excused his demand for a ne contract on the grounds that the Government had viol a ted the present agreement and had p olicy. November First. TE A C HE RS_ T he s c h ool te a cher is t h e forgotten man of Ni n eteen Forty-Six, and that applies al s o if he is a ~ ~ ~ t c . J . . ; ~ woman. ~ a&i~ the President of the iazag Carne g ie I ' },'t\_o -... -t£_«f ~i.J. Foundation for teachin g .-,,rt:iµ_: ~ e .aeaa.a ¼• ,..M ~~~~- te a chers ape~ ~eee-iTi-Bg e-ftough ~~.._-t..ill1Mlt- k /- JE ELS --- 1!-hw1·e won two more jewel robberies in London 1::fist-~:tgi1t:. Burglars broke into one home and bagged twelve thousand dollars' worth of gems belonging to Adelaide Hal l , a n American born n e g r ~ ~ used • to sin g with Duke Elliagton's orcheetra.eaee...Qpen ~ ti ■e.. In another house, ~aay :Leatacl ;.a-t eight thous nd Dutchess ~ , _::5'o dollar,,_ '""'t ~n.:_ l>h";) a i ~ of Windsor lost eighty i t " ~ ~ l l a r s '- wu1°ktl J, I &-f }le&?---eette-eti-4&, no l e ss than five hundred thousand dollars' worth of jewels have been stolen, and n o t • ■woa -e1!1 a ..a-Ng; gem 1M,,a 9.tHHl re covered.4-e to,,, A dispatch from London indicates t h a t ~ f:cnea Scotland Yard is at its w i t s ~ . : ~ /\ ~~ ■ 1t ~burglars.iaa\ haa ae■■ i~tem all ~hese ~hefw, · 1 d. · \ae Rey&l Porlieae af Bt, James~ ,ae a 1ag o&e 1n Pala~Famerican Military Police in radio-equipped jeeps are hel in the London Bobbies out. 4 cw-t ~ , b h ..P i.. 11 eM••g~--' - A detail from Paris e a e - rMmi,.. ~ I\. M-a were rushed eveP to London, a...,.-w~"t6~-t, ~ ~ - f i . rs,g~.aa-#~~.-~e~e~• for G.I. Deserters. Ost.ensi bly t:+ieJ 1M11• t s ~ ,, I w·th their ra d io cars. t&IELS_- 2 Police believe that aoae of those deserters were professional burglars before they got into the service. On a foreign shore on the loose once aore bu17 ~••l burgling on~e aore. elaon Caae · aa7 be no Scotland Yard sleuth, but let's see what deductions he deduces ton~aht. STAL Peemi~r- aLa Mgr:s:hl:l 7oilsf talin does~ a g r it ••r • S e cretary Byrnes that tension has ~ b . v<, s .. ct. ~~ u.s.s~ g,¥ewn--woPs:,t_ etween the 911i.,&d 81.atee nad \he 8Bie.., · • r, - flAll.bliieweM ee ■ ee in answer to a • questionnaire sent to Moscow by the eyea ■ ie Hugh B . - ~ r r t . a11 1 , of United Press. Stalin's reply to A Bailie's f irst question; did he agree with Byrnes, was the one word:• no. Bailie's next que tion was whether Stalin i thought the present negotiations would lead to peace treaties and remove the danger of an outbreak of war. S t alin's re ly;-•1 hope so.• Answering another quww Limt. Stalin said -u.:/- Ju g oslavi a w s ju s tified in refusing to a g n the peace ~ tre ~ ty with Italy, has grounds to e dissatisfied • .( #. Baillie d•e a sked what Stalin though m- • ~ the most serious threat to peace,i-fl tlt-e wno~ we-t1l:ti. }'.. The re ply ;~ "The inc end ia r ies of a new K being Churchill and those who think lik an the United States." a r, /\foremost him in En land BOLGAjlA I In the Bulgarian elections, although the returns are not all in the Reds are leading with faas fifty-five percent of the ballots. - SUPRIME COQBt The Supreae Court today refused to interfere with or in any way consider that last priaary election in Georgia, the one in which Eugene Talaadge a g ain won the Deaocratic no ■ ination for Go•ernor. The anti- Tal■ adge crowd hoped to get the Supreae Court to act on the ground that the Georgia unit ayste ■ of •otin1 ia ■■ unconatitutional. That ia, in Georgia they Tote by counties, the different countiea baYing ao ■any units; the a ■alleat countiea ba•ing two Yotea, and •••n those with the lar•e•t nuaber of Yotera haYia1 aot ■ ore than aix •otea. The Supre ■e Court Juaticea were aplit aix to three. And, aaong the ainority waa the one southerner on the bench, Justico Hugo Black of Alabaaa. He led the ainority in contendin& that the court ought to bear the appeal at least, and decide whether it had jurisdiction. The aupreae Court decision makes it certain that Georgia will again have Tal■adge for Governor Although he got fewer yotea than hia opponent, he 1ot more county units, and therefore won. JUGOSJ..A!li_ The goTernment of the Unit e States reject, the denial of the JugoalaT governaent that American citizens are being held there and made to work aa slaves. The State Departaent today announced that it stands by its charge. A JugoslaT spokeaaan made the statement that our Ambassador, Richard Patterson, Jr., had 1ald the United States ••• perfectly ••*if aatiatied witl the treataent our oitisen1 have beea haYin1 in -,c:.. J., ~ c-11. - ~~ Jugo1laYia • .AThe State DepartaentA~:W:J ••-~A. ~~ N1C it just~•• •as ■ ) N.. -.,ca:1~ •-ii• State ~ ~ - : p ~ Department pointri·out, would haYe intoraed hia ,, goYernaent it he had aade any 1uoh 1tateaent_...:-i.t,..t.