- FORMOSA Presid nt Eis nhowe r sa . s - he'd li k e to see t he u •• do som thi a b out the "vest po ck e t 1 • war off t h e C h ina coast. A ood idea - i f th e n te r natio nal o r gan i z ation c o u l d arr a ng e a ce a se - fi r e . T h e Pres iden t agr e s ~ with cret a r~pf State J o hn F os t er D ull e s - that t he is land of Yi -ki ang -shan, c a p ured by he Chine se Co!lD uni t s , i s not i mport a nt. htch - goe8 for the whole T a chen c hain of islands, off the coast of the mainland. These ar two hundred and fift y miles north o f Formosa, and a re not vital for the defense of that bastion - declared the P resident. So we won't intervene in their defense. Our Seventh Fle twill not get into the "vest pocket" war, so far as the T a chen Islands are concerned. Toda . , the R e ds hit the main island of Tachen with a . ~ bombing a tt a ck - by two hundred planes. A nd they are, we hear, mas tng na val forces along the coast - a pparently for a n i nv a sion of T a chen. The Chiang K a i-shek air force hit back - bombing the mainland. {, The N a tion a lists on Formosa ar e gloomy - on e Chiang FORMOSA - 2 Kai -shek l eader sa. in g toda . "The Communists are oing to take our i lands, on e by on, a nd th e United St ates Seventh Flee t is no t going to do a thing about it. 11 The view in ashington is - that we don't fant to get involved in a war, because of minor islands a few miles • off the China mainla1 . • T hat sort of thing might be a "powder keg", as President Eisenhower, toda., remarke. In Ital , , the Communist P art y revolt - has been crushed. Togliatti, the R e d boss, corned out on top - in a feud that might have disrupted the ranks of the Italian Communists. Last week, the news told how a secret manifesto had been circula ~ ed among the Reds in Italr. Attacking Togliatti - in bitter terms. Charg1 him with the worst of sins, according to the Marxian gospel - "opportunism, conformism." ) rlso - personal ambition. This emanated from extremists - demanding tougher action. Accusing Togliatti - of too much moderation. The leader of the rebels was - the number two Red, Secchia (Say--kya} - whom the, call "the man who never laughs." His face - grim, unsmiling. So now the word is - that Secchia has been ousted from his post as a Vice-Secretary of the Italian Communist Part,. Likewise - from his all-important job as head of the Central Organizing committee, which controls the Party machinery. ITAL Y - 2 i r e c t orat e . Th i s - d eireed b y a vote of th e P art y r~alllJll!moz,;W.which sent " the man who never smi lea " into virtual exile. 01 ven a minor · post - of a Regional Secretar . in Lombardy. ,,,.-- .,.,,.,.,, / Longo 1'.) rominent for years op re be 1 _, .w a s - / / /1 Commun1JHD. Nothing at all - re v olt was prudent ,...- ,r e Togl1att1 Sti ~ ~er \ recante At the Party showdown, Togliatti was reeleJted Secretar, General of the Italian Communists - which sealed Lis triumph. All this has wide international implications. Togl1att1 was able to crush the revGlt only because he had the backing of the Kremlin. The Malenkov regime - supporting hie tactics of mo de r a tion. Seeking a Red victory - by parliamentary means, and slow Red infiltration. Moscow - frowning on the p olic y of violent strikes an d revolution advocated by 'the man who ne v er lau g h s . " SOVIET RESTRICTIONS Our government has made another move in the game ot - tit-for-tat. The game - with soviet Russia. Toda . , Soviet citizens in this country were forbidden to snap photographs of a whole variety of things - military installations, seaports, power plants, and so on. Also, they ma~ not purchase pictures of such things, or large maps. Several weeks ago, we slapped travel restrictions on Soviet citizens in this country - to match the way the Moscow government keeps our people from~ traveling around in Russia. So now - the photographic angle. The Reds - being alwa1a jittery about the clicking of cameras. So it 1 s tit-for-tat again -- which may not sound like the loftiest brand of statesmanship. But mankind wouldn't be mankind - unless it were pett~. I ENH ( JWER - ECURITY President Eisenhower has made a special arrangement for handling securit . cases - in which there's a division of opinion between different ugencies of the government. As in the L dejinsky case - in which the Russian born ta.rm expert was dismissed a a securit . risk by the Department of Agriculture. Then - hired by the Foreign Aid Administration, under Harold tassen. The two I agencies - at odds on thP se'Urity 0 ~atus of Ladejinsky. Today, the President announced that, hereafter, a special unit of the Department of Justice w1i1 handle such cases. inion in t,... ___ _ t of Jus case CH OF DIMES Vic -Pr sid nt Nixon did a skillful Job, toda. - except for one thi Performed like an expert - except for a slight omission. Th Vice-President worked - as a gasoline station attendant. illing th tanks, checking the oil, wiping windshields. 11 - part of the March of Dimes. In Washington, two Amoco stations turned over the profits of the day, to the Polio Fund - and asked the Vice-President to help out. He was more than willing - because he's an old hand at a filling station. H told how, his father's grocery store had a g~solin pump out in front - and young 1ck Nixon ran it. So, today, he sure was an expert - as the first automobile drove up. In it - three ~oung women. "Fill •er up" ~hey told him. Nixon did, and then checked the oil and wiped the windshield, while news photographers took a lot of pictures Ther ,.,as onl.r one thing he forgot - to collect the mone .• H e rang up the ount on the cash re ister all right - but never thought about the cash. MARCH OF DIMES - 2 Lat r, he did better . When other oars came through, he made sure to collect for the benefit of the March ot Dimes. TRUMAN If . ou should ever happen to meet Har . Truman, you shoul d call him - Mr. President. He's an ex- resident, of course - but he deserves the courtes . • Today- he said: "I don't care what people call me. I've been call d ever . th . " That's the reply he gave to Etiquette Writer . Amy V a nderbilt - who asked about the proper method of address. In aw a news interview, today, Harry Truman told of his custom - with former President Hoover ~ "I instructed the Forty-Su Gridiron Dinner." S o ~ Wbte!h- ~~~ Harry Trwnan 1 that same title - Mr. President. PRISON A grim 1e ge 1 going on at the Massachusetts State Prison. Wher, toda - a thtrt ton tank was brought in to guard against a pos tble attempt b . convict mutineers to shoot ~ their w~ out. thee are four of them - and theyAre holding eleven hostages. Five guards - and six convicts, who refused to join the revolt. The presentplan is, to unaxi.111 starve the mutin ere into surrender. Their leader is Teddy Green, a bank robber - who has been rejecting appeal fron: his own daughter, a girl of sixteen. There's communication by telephone - and, last night, Tobey Green spoke to her father on the phone, and a ked him to give tn. He refused. Today, she talked with him in person. Approaching the building - while the mutineer chief appeared at a window. But, once more, he rejected his daughter's appeal. SCOTLAND The British Ro . al A i r Force as in action - over cotland, toda . . Dropping supplies to scores of Highland villages. Snowb und villages - isolated hv an immense blizzard An aircraft caITier of the Royal Nav . s navigating off the coast - ,cting as a base for helicopters on mission of mercy. Northern &lrope is having violent weather - the Highlands of Scotland getting the brunt of it, Caithness and --~ Sutherland. Huge snowdrifts piling up - a,"'th3 Scottish Highlands~ snowbound. Further eourth - 1t 1 s a story o~ 8 deluge. In France and Germa~v - dangerous floods. ARABIA Toda . I'v been thinking - about some sur ri ing p ople I ncount red 1n Arabi a . Here's an example. th co rt of King d, mon rch of d ert sand nd oil ells - I was shown aroun b. a young sheik, Ali Abdulla Bul Ker. But, one da. , th sh 1k ad to be 1th t Klng. So I was put in ch rg of another e c urt. Th t morning I was having breakfast alone in a great b 1quet hall of the alace - enJo. 1ng a repast Gf goat's cheese, olives and pomegranates, straight from the King's ~den. That was when Al Foster came in - a :voung American,?- ~ ' ~ ~-.....OAi• f ~tJ•< ~ ~~ who M ~~,-el.et. w waazi 1l- ;ttfn° charge of the King's personal " I'-- /14 . ~ { ; ; ( . , { ~ finances 1 andf...the ro. al personal property.,: has to keep a check on the rugs, the furniture, and so on, in tho man: royal palac a. A unique job, if there ever was one - like something ut of stor . book. Al dropped in on me - unannounced. I hadn't heard a wor about h being in Hiy-adh. iie tol me he was born and ral ed in ortland, regon, and had been there, in Ri, adh, fort n ear. ➔ spok 1 ~ 1 c e ~ ~ 2tfr;m11d m nn r - ~ I lat r disco e r £ lv concealed a toughness I . n erneath. h ch p obabl . pl in h ~ e ha beenfhere so long, nd h. the King has such com let confidence in him. And al o - w~, hen he'd pass along a etr et, Arabs would point him OU and sar nThat 1 . , F'OSTAAR.' Al took m~ a few miles outside the city, to the largest oasi I visited. There, o went through the most a .tractive of the palaces that I saw in Central Arabia. hen he was still Crown Prince, S & ud built Bedhia Palace for himself. ~~~ / ~ a.it one da . Athe age'¼!bln Saud, said to his son} ,"Take me out and show me what :vou have been doing at Bedh1 . " nd when the Kin~ saw it, he liked 1 t so much, that he said, 'Fine, I' 11 move 1n." And he did. Wher upon the crown Prince, in a hurr . , sent h s men to dhia nd ha them take out all of l,.i..s spic a n span furniture, and replace it with orne of ARA -- hi father' ore beaten u thin from othe.r palaces. B did thi because he knew that the desert bedouinl, ho were al aye around their idol, Ib'fn aud, would d mol1sh · is o nate ne furniture. ·'hl} added ~plication for t • g ro Oregon • / inti ate / yo his at that ights At Bedhia Palace, Al pointed out a number of sloping ra■ s, obviously built where~er there had b en more than one or two steps, from one big room to anoth . r. -f..zt;n 4 5 ' ~ ~ - Ibfn Saud, suffered fro ■ arthritis during hie //'- later years. Re •as a giant, and fina_ly h's legs wo~ldn't hold him. President Roosevelt, when they ■ et Or to play skee ball, an A erican modified bo ling ame that the King likes and at which he seems to be a whiz. Yo1ng Foster also said that his stay here at Riyadh might have lengthened because he plays jazz on the piano, and does it in a way that seems to meet favor in the eyes of the monarch who rules over the desert land of camels, date palms and that vast ocean of oil beneath 4 sands. t-9e people. --Ae'1 he-doesn-' t nnt --t-o-huPry baok to -4h_:, bea~\if~l ~i~1 ef Roeee on the banks e-f thee. lillaarltlt R1we1 in the 'rilf!1rw0i ~ Young A l ~ the excitement and the romance that goes A with life at the strangest c;;Lurt n e a r t h ~ A . f 2 , f ~ ~ . ~ J ~ ~ ~~-