There •e~e sharp e~changes of left handed com p liments at today's meeting of the Big Four Foreign Ministers. Molotov opened in characteristic vein, inti ■ ating that the western democracies were planning the erection of slave atates in urope, a charge which, coming from the foreign minister of Sov~et Russia, alaoet takes the ~rize for eubli■e nerve:'The Soviet Fo~ei1n Minister dia"n6t mention which nations he ■eant, ju1t referred to •certain countries• which, as he phrased it C ~ in customary o ■ munist dialect, are trying to write an ti - i ■ p •ialist peace. That, he added, ■eans the do ■ ination of certain nowers over others. the divisi~n of nations into those who are slaves ana those who are ■asters~ This brought the quiet retort fro ■ Secretary Marshall, that he was sure Molotov was mating charges in which he bad not the faintest belief. Marshall then im p lored the ~ussiens to drop this silly business of im utine evil motives, which are just fi g ments of propaganda, and g et down to work. Be urged them to join sincerely in an Attempt t o reach a ttaxtt~ logical llG !,Q]L -2 agreement for the benefit o~ the entire world. Forei g n Se ret a ry Ernest Bevin of Britain backed h i m up with a sarcastic observation that apparently France, Britain and America were all war mongers, with only one sa i nt, the Soviet Union. •The rest or us,• said I BeviJ, •come from down below.• And he added that if the conference would treat those charges with the humor they • deserve, they might be able to get down to busineaa. French Foreign Minister Bidault joined larshall and qevin in ridiculing Molotov's ravings. After the sparring was ov&r, the liniatera did get som,hing acco ■plished: They agreed upon a six point program or procedure, about which they had been 0 wran g ling for six months. They gave first priority to the Austrian Treaty; next the preparation or a German treaty~ - and the q uestion of German fron t iers,Aeconomic principles to make Germany an eco~omi~ whole, to f orm a government , ~ 4 for the~country. After that, they will consider the l■•t•x Soviet proposal for the demi l itari1.ation o~ Ge~many and the American sug g estion for a tre a ty between the Bi g Four, BIG FOUR -3 --------- y o l wou d com t.he dtSf'l' a n , of' er ny. Thi priority SC me represent.ed 8. om romis fwxt for he t'me being, but. t.he prophecy from Lon on is .L a there 'A' i 1 be plenty of wranglin " bou it " Inter on. Until l a his a ernoon, hopes were hi h in s in~ on hat the en a wou l d pa the five bun red nd ninety seven mill on dollar bill to provide emergency relief for Europe. But at the last moment an unexpectedly bit er fight developed on the floor of the uppe chamber:(Fight . freshmen Repuhl icans offered an mendment to cut the · sum down to four hundred disagreed. Taft of Ohio, Wherry of Nebraska and Millikin of Colorado voted for the amendment. It required all the efforts of Senator Vandenberg, President o~ the Senate and ta majority leader Wallace White of Maine, to keep - - twenty-seven Republicans in line. The amend ■ ent was finally defe : t ed by a coalition of twenty-seven Reoublicana end twenty-nine Democrats, while twenty Repuhlic&ns and ten Democrats favored the amendment. Vandenberg left his place in the chair an4 led the fi g ht himself on the floor of the Chamber. The Michigan elder statesman gave everything he had to the fOR~IGN _!~ -2 ------- cause. R V D aur d his bro her Sen tors tha voting for the mer ncy program ould not ob ige them to do the some for he lonp range Marshall Plan, the twenty billion dollar rogram. Vandenberg would have lost but for the helo of those twenty-nine Democrats who voted no on he amendment just to support the administration . As it wes, when the Senate took a reoess1a.y, two more amendments prevented the final passing or the bill, which was postponed until Monday. But even after the Senators . . . pass-1 it the measure r 8 ces an even tougher fight in the Bouse. The prospects are for a ~ debate 1~ A next week. I e apppo~riatiena fer Ettropeaa~:fThe Foreign Affairs Commit~ee of the House today heard testimony from the Professor of political science of Northwestern University that the Chiang Iai-Shet govern ■ ent might fail within a year without help from us. And be added that if we lose the Far East, Russia will take overr and •••J e•erybody knows* what that means. COIIRADFS --------- The French Government too1 one step today to show it is in earnes about wenting no more trouble from Communist agitators. It took twen y of the Soviet Comrades by he scruff of the neck and sent them back home, where they can now enjoy the delights and com~orts o' a 1 i .. s a ~ .!!9ther Russia. The Soviet government, instead of being t glaf to have its nationals back again, resents the action. The Soviet Embassy in Paris has registered a protest with the quai tt d'orsai and the affair will be added to - - - the considerable list of points at issue between Paris and Yoseow. The French Government agents treated those comrades to what wou!d be called over here the bum's rueb. They gave them just a few hours to straighten up their ~ffairs, if any, then took them to a point where the French Zone touches the Russian occupation zone of Germany, shoved them over the line, and said - good bye. tt■"'!:Among hose kicked out was the• editor of a Russian language newspaper called, •soviet Patriot.• With him CO RAD'FS -2 --------- wee three officers of the union of Soviet Patriots, 8 n outfi com o ed of Russin re ·aents in France, including some ten thousand whi e Russian refugees who have signed lhe ledge, joined the party, and been edmi ed o Soviet citizenship. The French government has had considerable rouble with comredeB in France, who have behaved as if they were entitled to extraterritorial rights and above -- the i French law,Aan attitude which has not endeared the■ to most French people. However, the government is --t..~ proceeding only agaibst those . who actively~aade trouble. The charge against those who were kicked out is that they, in official langu~ge, •extended their activities outside the realm of their wort.• hat it aeana is that they have been foremost in proaoting the recent disorders in France, Qr.a the government is investigating a lot ■ore of them. TRAC FOLLO O FA D fS ~-------- ------ Thee de p or . tions did no have the ef f ect o4" r ducin e di s orders in Fr nee. owever, many rou le ome Russi a ns be g overnmen may ex el, here are ~ a1.- y s , , t ~ ~ native born 1•11 French Cornmunist , s.,tJ't:-6"1.f .,,,..-. Moscow - rained in the techniq~e or creatin g disorders &nd producin g chaos. The principal trouble oday • s a t Lyon, where a huge mob, led by the comrades, tried to t:4~ capture oolice headquarters. A berrage of tear gas bo ■ bs ,A disposed of that.eae. ing i ~ nd / br~cast / / the countrY. what h~ / gover_Jl111ent !"6noees //' // / z ,/ ith th strikM. It ti prob Y th he raise ~ w a g all Z. s wee ores put an e to A ~~ sewbe ✓ \.here ~ Preailr Robe~t Scbuaan,,uo~bo the air in the evening,__. promised to raise wages i ■■ ecliately. Be declared there was a difference between justified ;¼4-.,:_( strikes and political strites.~So11e of the claims made by the workers are justified. But, he added that too often this situation is being used . for nolitical ends and exploited by the Co ■■ unists for purnoses which have nothing to do with the welfare of the workers. As r·ke in Finland h s virtually isol ' It . 1. s ed the en ire country •rom the rest of the world. ~~ as rike o+',._civil servant.a, some seventy or eighty housand of them. What makes the isolation serious is tha among them a e tele bone, t legraoh and radio operators, lso post of ice workers.1t"No ships are sailing fro■ ~ i s h ports, 11lx no trains run n ing across t!:le frontier into Sweden, and none inside t~~ country i sel. Ro - -tf': air traffic eitherAto Sweden or to Moscow. Teaehe~s walked out also, not only in the schools but the universities, which produced a spectacle of dignified grey-haired professors picketing the Unive~sity of - Helsinki. iiehe&-l ehildPea h11:-,: Rn-1m~+iell htMftl.a1,- ~ •Uh cpreeties11:,-e•e•y f!leheel .J.n lhe--eo1111\.PJ -c¼ose.! 4ew&.. PALF TINE - ----- John Bull will give up hie andate over P 1 t.ine i hint . ree onths , ' aybe one month. Th's i no offici 1, although it comes from London. The source o~ the s ory is h t familiar apo esman known ~a "well informed quarters.• The British will take this tep because they d n't want any part of the partition of Palestine. Beeaus •• as a matter of British Ji policy, they~--, cannot afford to al:enate the Arab world much of which is a part of British territor~ or ak sphere of influence. So they'll have nothing to do with any solution of the Zionist proble~ that does not appeal to Arabs as well as Jews. Therefore the British will withdraw from the Roly Land - perhaps next month 1 but by ~arch at the latest. At Late Success today, all thoughts an4 activities centered on Paleetine, on the vote in the General Assembly, which will decide the fate of the Roly Land. Toni ht's story from the U.I. reports that there has been much intrigue, arguing and hortetrading, , int e corri or nati o ns w h o . v To ~y r e ce jo ' ni ng th e list of nnounced th t they'll vote against the partition oft e Holy Land, also the Philip ines. But a number o f sm a ll E uropean countries a re still sitting on the f ence. Late to da y we learned that final consideration bas been postponed until Friday. PRIQ.!S_ - or . he T rum n ad m in i s tr~ t . i on i . he in to y to try per u e Congr es to bring bac o.P.A. C in on P. And r on, Secre ary of A,ricdlture, ask th House RPnkin Commit e to app ove what he CAll~d It he nd-by orice con+~o )meaning r•+ionin ould no us u n t i l ~ ~prin~.~ybe he powers which might not use hem even then !i. the campaign to save food ie successful and if next year's crops are good. But the government, eai4 he, should have those powers just a s ~ insurance against eny fur her epiralinP- of prices. Secretary of Commerce Harriman made a similar a peal to the f■tt joint Congressional !conoaic . ~ ~ommit ee. BothF...::.~.,._ agree~that credit control should be restored. ~ to put the brakes on 1/-f_~•~ ,fl,.. installment buying. The govern■entAshould..., ha•• A nriority au hority over scarce commodities, s eel, ~ailroad eauipment and facilities. ~ e e i l ~ ■en:n p~tt.ing t.t,e pailPetul1 uRd:er fe•e••l-. ~ , The administ • ion would also •o~»o ••••x*~ once ■ elLh Q like to have cont 1 over he use of gr n, elso storage PRICES - 2 ----- f cilities, fa rm machinery and fertilizer. • Secret a ry Harriman said what he wanted was not the return of over-all wartime controls, just precautionary measure in case they become necessary. Both secretarie soft-ped lled the subject of wage controls and mentioned the words almost under their breath. But they are part of the Truman administration program to curb inflation. -----0----- I don't give Nelson much warning about my closing item. Let's see what impromptu response he'll have for this one! SF.A RFSCUE ----------- From San Francisco a terse announcement by the coast g uard, tba hey re searching the Paclflc, two hundred miles south of Honolulu, for a subchaser. I One lone sai or cast adrift in a storm when~ tow lint broke. And ehind tha *••• terse announcement, a dramati c story of an En~lishman, who in the true tradition of those who go down into the 1ea in 1hip1, preferred to brave the Pacific alone and bring bi1 sub-chaser single handed into port. On October tenth Ronald E. Johnson, an Essex man, born on the estuary of the Tha■ea, waa in charge of a aub-chaaer attached to a towing 1hip heading for Tahiti. A sudden tropical stora, snappe4 the tow line, and Johnson and hia sub-chaser went whirling away in the · boiling eea. "Come aboard our ship•, signalled the skip er of the tow ship Taurau. !ut Johnson refuae4. He wrote a note, wrapned it round a heavy bolt and tossed it over to the Taurau•s deck. tt read: "I'll get her to the Philip ~ ines. At an7 rate, 1 '• ll!.J!E_gQi - 2 tone with he wind. Bu if I can get enough liead ••tt• ■ ati sail I'll be okay.w Skipper owry un eretood just how Rona14 Johnson felt. Like all good sailors, Johnson waned to keep his ship and be was gambling his life against the investmen he had made in her, his separation pay tro ■ the Royal Navy. But ow could you take a man away fro~ his ship, even in a perilous storm? So the captain of the tow-ship did the only thing he could. Be hove alon1 the side and tossed over cases of canned ■ ilt, aoup• beans, fresh fruit, sugar, and a navigator•• watch, wished Sailor Johnson luct and headed for Tahiti. The last they saw of Ronald Johnson. Be waa standin1 on the bow of his tiny aub-chsser, one man against the elements, vanishing into the ~ark of the stor■• And now the coast guard are searchin& for the chap who hasn't been heard of since October tenth. Adr"ft, alone on the •ast Pacific. FLI F h ------ From Salt Lak e City, w e learn that ' eor i e Tru m a n and C ifford E v a ns, th t 0 e wo airmen, g lo b e-circ l in in t h e ir Pi p er Cub putt-putt planes, p a s sed over t h e ~al l Lak City airp o rt this evening on t h e f in a l l a p of t h eir leisurely . . . •round the ,..._ world. E arly this m orning they took off fro ■ Lethbri dg e) lr.a.iilazici ■ "' in Alberta, Canada, and tonight they hope to make Las Ve g as,or, Los Angeles. Yd.ch depemls -,o n the weather. If Truman and Evans can ■aintain their average flying speed of a-hundred-twenty mile• an h our they should reach Los Angeles about midnight. But according to con ~ ersation$ the two fliers exchanged with the radi o tower at Delta, Utah, they may d ro p dow n at .Las Vegas and make their triumphant - ~ return to Ca l ifornia) tomorr~• • r;tg• "J5.d-- n ..,,__ . . . _ -. J ---, - . - , - .J - .. - -... ~ DAI JUt)lU'1 Vv'O' - ~ • I "-R ~ WL w.-1\ W Two American pilots coming home after ~ ..... ~ t,a. flyin g around the world in three-and- a-half ■onthsJ in tiny planes -- showing S a ~ what small aircr a ft can do. .liQ.l! E lKIQli King G or gP o f Gre at Britain and Queen E lizab eth ••• had unexp e ct e d visitors for lunch today. T h ei r dau h t e r and son-in-law arrived by car, driven away f ro m t he ir honeymoon retreat in southern England by t usands of curious and uninvited visitors. They found it impossible to take a walk by thems lves, for wherever they went, aobs of importunate persons a■ surrounded thea. And the country house in which they were trying to have a honeymoon, was constantly surrounded by throngs of peekers. The ordeal became so intolerable that they fled, stop p ing over at Bue king'ba.-- Palace on their way to Scotland. There they will try to obtain a little p rivacy, not tar f r • Balmoral Castle, Scotti• home of Qu een Victoria on the River Dee. They've informed the Lord Lieutenant of the county that they wish to be absolutely alone for the rest of their honeymoon _ there/ where they want.a be ,on the River Dee. RQ~!~QQ! - 2 Since the or Lieutenant commands the police foroe tbe 1 ought to a v e their wish And end to peeking; more privacy With the Duke of Edinboro free To Hold the Dutchess on hie knee On the banks of the bonnie bonnie Dee. Which brin s us tot ee -- lelaon. Thanks for the warning so baatee I'a on a spot it'• plain to see Thought I've been busy as a bee I can't think of any rhy ■ e for Ivoree You have me up the poetree LTP.1947.11.26i.pdf LTP.1947.11.26ii.pdf