PERON L . T • -DELCcii,,(. 5 ~ tl t) - I :> '.). ':_ -t "='<, The news tonight 1s that P eron has escaped. 'Ihat 1s, {the former dictator of Argentina is aboard a Paraguayan gunbo t. Fleeing to a foreign vessel gives him the same protection as/ though he had taken refuge in a Foreign Embassy.) But will he ever reach Paraguay? The rebel4 leaders say the Argentine Navy has been ordered to prevent him from escaping. Capture Peron no matter what. (Buenos Aires is reported quiet. Tanks and amored cars at all strategic points. But, no fight~ For the ■■xn!IIU moment normal life 1n Buenos Ai B has slowed to a halt. Stores, offices, banks, factories all closed. The rebels have asked the population to treat this critical aftermath period as u a holiday. Which most Argentinians appear to be doing. The story of the final overthrow of Peron is vague. We still rtanxrilUU don't know whether there's a top rebel leader, directing the revolution or a junta. As all the world PERON - 2 waits to learn what kind of regime ;;tiie~•~fe strong man who ruled the Pampas for nine years. A dispatch from Washington saying that we will not rush to recognize any new government at Buenos Aires, now that Peron is gone. The State apartment wants to know more about the new regime - whether it has the support of the Argentina people, and will honor its international obligatt.ons. Observers in Washington suggest that it might be a month before we recognize the new government. Meanwhile, we hear that Americans in Argentina are safe enough, and apparently not mistreated during the rioting against Peron. DIPLOMAT In Britain, the "case of the missing diplomats" is heading into a Ji political fight. The critics of the government, condemning the way the Foreign Office handled MacLean and Burgess - who fled to the Soviet Union, and are now admitted to have been Communist spies. The Foreign Office brougnt a cry of rage from the opposition by stating that MacLean and Burgess continued as diplomats - afte+t was suspected they were Red spies. The Foreign Office defense is that after · MacLean and Burgess u were suspected - secret documents were with held from them. But the critics want to know - if the Foreign Office was investigating these two men - why were they allowed to escape to Russia? A London druggist - Chemist - now admits that MacLean used his dark room for developing film. Copying foreign office documents, presumably to pass to Soviet agents. DIPLOMAT - 2 Although MacLean was with the British Embassy in Washington, for more than four years, with access to atomic secrets, no comment so far from either State Department or Central Intelligence. MOROCCO The Premier of France got over his first hurdle today in his attempt to solve the Morocco problem. Premier Faure, forcing cabinet approval of his plan. The Premier called an emergency meeting. And then he told every cabinet minister there - either to approve the plan, or to resign. No one accepted the challenge. So Premier Faure accepted the silence as meaning- unanimous u agreement. That ended eight days of squabbling within the Paris government. Now all that remains is to put the plan into effect. And that's going to be a lot more difficult - tha1: settling the cabinet crisis. The trouble today is - that the Pro- French Sultan seems to have changed his mind. Sidi Mohamed Ben Moulay Arafa had d agreed to step out oeaceably. But now we hear - that he's decided to stay on as Sultan, after all. This means, that Paris will have to expel him from the throne by force. And that's going to be a big item in MOROCCO - 2 itself - because the French resident general is said to oppose using force. General De Latour, afraid that if the pr-French Sultan gets the boot - French settlers in Morocco might break out into violence. The resident general, still afraid u of what the French settlers will do, if the Sultan goes - and what the Moroccan terrorists will do, if he doesn't PASSAKIVI The President of Finland returned home today - &Rd * a tremendous welcome from his pe o p l e. President Passakiv1, flying from Moscow to Helsinki1 ,.e Masi:>R-nn1,,.....f:l~ w4- ,oa~ ft that agreement ai~d--~he~M:n, by which the Russians are to give up the Finnish naval base at Porkkala. President Passikivi declaTed that his tri to Moscow was the only satisfactory one he has ever made - and he'-a~ been 1n the Soviet capital seven times in ~9~• sixteen years. In the past, he only got terror and war from Stalin. This time, Bulganin gave him the new Soviet look - all smiles and amiability. Also, returning · Porkkala to Fin l and. No -;:-~.~~ -r:~.,,_._J ~ . wonder the President• 5'tN'h.cik ,.. /'- J\AEI. t,he ·P4nn:l:1R peopJ:.e are 1111, il!tfied, -tee.. 'lll':!Jt,&owd.,";h~~eets of Helsinki, as ~ rode ltNk A II to the Presidential palace) IQ1~,aeked the eq11&re wtnde J -< , ,1:1e Pa}eee ~ called repeatedly for ,tte=~a1deRI to appear on the balcony. iJ.Aa:lly., 15b8 ePowg e~atae Na~ieul ••ne• PASSAKM ~ ICfflllll • " ' 11 f :l.ed fell OAclC wtt:11 -:;._:;,rrw "" UtJir P0WGI M ndgl,bGP,. For once • Finland ~ good news from Moscow. " BAST GERMANY ~ Another pact WIik signed in the Kremlin today. lllde- "- ~etween the Soviet Union and the East German Communists. Bulganin signed for Russia; 9M' Premier Grotewohl for East Germany. Under this treaty, Grotewohl 1 s territory becomes free - 'if£~ in domestic affairs and foreign Jl policy. ~eN8-e A one catch - the Red Army to remain, as long as the western allies have troops 1n WestGermany. Today's agreement means that East Germany can negotiate with West Germany directly - both, now, independent. Moscow, obviously, hoping that the western powers will be frozen out of future diplomacy - when the subject is German Wlification. ADENAUER West Germany will have its new Army of half a million men ready for action by the end of Nineteen Fifty-Eight. So 'Ml ~.r...1.ct ~ Chancellor Adenauer ~ newsmen ~ e r a / ~ ' Aeenaaet deelta ea th&:t ➔he 1'lew &l'ift!'- wtH ••• twal" divisions T:tJ ~-+ I - 111111 wil+-N traine'.\.t:8£ ~ 1 , ~ with the Nato forces. West Germany, also to have a tactical Air Force, and 7P a Navy for guarding the coast. Nato has already been advised that it can count on the German forces to be HQ ready on t1M. e e. ---.,t--ib ~ 'l\&.9~Adenauer 4 Mna-u" that his visit to Moscow has had - "R. p ~··-~ no effect on rearmament.lie eet11,.,,t'hat nothing he saw/\~ _ 5 ~ IPe11ltR indicates that t h e ~ e ~ are making any fundamental ~~~~-~ change in their policy. ,re .weo~ 9eMflff' ehaneeJ.HP, •ea etl!MiRs t , h ~ Soviet amiability as "a new phase of the cold war." ~ti.rearmament of West Germany will go ahead - c:'schedule. }- UlfITED NATIONS Red China will not get a seat in the United Nations this year. So decided by the delegates today - beginning their tenth annual session. At the start, M olotov demanded the expulsion of the Chinese nationalists. Their place, to be given to Mao Tse Tung. t ~ . Our Ambassador, Henry Cabot Lodge, promptly countered with the proposal - not to consider seating Red China. And the United Nations went along with Lodge, overwhelmingly - the vote, forty-two to twelve. Then the delegates got down to business, mm elect;;ia new President of the General Assembly. The vote ) to WH unanimous for Jose Maza of ltt Chile) ~ succeed9 ~ Van Kleffens, of the Netherlands. GENEVA In Geneva, America and Cormnunist China reached a compromise today. The Chinese representative, Wang Ping-Nan, agreeing to keep the question of American prisoners still ' ~...JI.••"' ◄ --~ open. And tiexl's= ~ agreeing to move on to other items in return for this. So the two diplomats are now discussing the possibility of a meeting between Foster Dulles and - - - Chou En-Lai. Also, 119N trade between Red China and the West. • No decision to be taken on either of th11e- until the last American prisoner has returned from China. We've --&-J- ~ agreed to li.!,.ten to what the Reds have to say - ~ we ._.;t- don't~ ~ M w ~ r ~ l w{re satisfied that the Reds are not stalling. PRISONERS ( rwo more American prisoners returned to freedom from Red China today. ~ w o m e n Mrs. Sarah Perkins of New York City, and Mrs. Dorothy Middleton of Cicero, Illinois, arriving in Hong Kong. -w4 'Rley . - • • Presbyterian missionaries,'\ working among the Chinese - when the Red tide &f Mae he:Jl'ttn8 swept over them. They were arrested in Nineteen Fifty-one - accused of - sabotage. we..o Mrs. MiddletonJJas picked up at a leper colony - and sent to a jail 1n Canton}~ says she was well Kak treated - although she did have the usual interrogations. One surprising thing about Mrs. Middleton's case - she was never told about the charge of "sabotage." The first she heard about it - was today, when newsmen told her. Mrs. Perkins was treated more roughly. She was ~884~Mlff!~ repeatedly - and insisted on her innocence each ' time. Each time, the Reds sent her back to her cell - to reconsider. 'Ibey wanted her to admit that she was an agent PRISONERS - 2 for General Marshall. They even thre a tened to shoot her unless she confe~sed. Mrs. Perkins held out, and told them to do whatever they liked - but she would not say she was guilty. Finally they gave up. Mrs. Middleton and Mrs. Perkins are described as in good physical condition. They say they'll uxa go on with their work as missionaries - if they can. ROADS Today President Eisenhower asked motorists to come to the aid of his highway program. In a message to a convention of the American Automobile Association, he pointed system out the serious need for a better road •1•••• 1n this country. And admitting that his plan for such a system is bogged down 1n Congress. This will come up again next year, and the President wants us to call on Congress to pass a highway bill that will give us the roads we desperately need. PIOHT Tonight's heavyweight title fight postponed, because of Hurricane Ione. Rocky Marciano now to u. meet Challenger Archie Moore at the Yankee Stadium tomorrow night. Which gives us time to ask the question: How old is Archie Moore? We know that the challenger is a veteran of long lag long years in the ring. Some two hundred fights. A United Press expert says: "Archie insists he's only thirty eight. Maybe ne is. But, he is old enough to have been a sparring partner for Mickey Walker in Nineteen Thirty Two. Which was twenty three years ago. s~, if Archie is thirty eight now, he'd Have been fifteen - when he was a sparring partner for Mickey Walker. Too young! ~ 1'88t was he DK twenty at the time? That - would make him forty three now. A ripe old age - indeed - for meeting the heavyweight champion. But ~emember Sam \ Langford? Old age didn't slow him down, much! ........ HURRICANE Hurricane Ione instead of blasting Washington, ti. Philadelphia, New York 1 and the Atlantic • Coast in general is now churning up the Atlantic ocean and moving northeast, its winds, already below hurricane s~rength. However, the Weather Bureau warns that Ione still may return. She's that erratic. ADD HURRICANE From Tampico, Mexico, we have late word about Hurricane "Hilda". ~ i e a - - - a a y ~at fifty people - ...- dead, and two hundred missing. 'lld&, a1!5 Ma tallent u■&dl, 1t,1,jrear:&,eft the toll of dead and injured will be much higher when~ reports are in. HORSE THIEVES A dispatch from Norton, Massachusetts, announces the end of an historic organization. The disbanding of the Norton Horse Thief Debecting Society. The group was founded one hundred and f~y eight years ago - while George Washington was still alive. At that time, horse thieves were a menace to society. They would snatch a nag - and sell it to a fence 1n Boston. And olG-timera will remember how tough it was - when a farmer lost his horse. That's why the Norton Horse Thief Detecting ' Society came into existence. Their business, to investigate at once - whenever a stolen horse was reported. And that's been their purpose for over a century and a half. How many cases d~d they solve in all those years? !.p The answer is - none. ';('bey never turned up a single thief - or even a single porse. But even so, the organization remained. Maybe the members Just 1 he meetings. ~he-.gt''-"11' c aid one member today¥ ,~ ~·A{ ~ P.l- ~ ~~~~ .. n.o ~su~e~ - - - ~ ~~~