L,T,-DELCQ,_ 1£~., JAi, 71 12~7. GOOD EVIIIIG EVERYBODY: Britiah P ri ■e Minister Sir Antho117 £4en - ha• reaigne4. Step p ing out - following the failure ot hi• p ollc7 to 101•• the Sue& Canal criaia b7 force. Last night, Sir Anthon, 4ro•• to Sandringha■ - the Queen•• oountr7 ho ■• in lortold. lhere he lntor■•4 Ber laJe1t7 - of hl• lntentioa. Then, toda7, he oa11•4 a Cabinet •••ting, aad tol4 hl• coll••••••· Toai1ht'• London 4iapatch 1a,1 - £den'• deciaioa ••• unexpecte4. The oal7 indication - th• Queen toda, returning to Lon4oa auddenJ7 froa Sandrin1hna. lndit i ting - that 1oaethln1 was happening. After the Cabinet meeting, the P ri ■ e Miniater drove to Buckinghaa Palace - where Queen Elizabeth was w aiting. And there he p resented his resi g n a tion to her, in the foraal traditional way. When he •••rged froa the palace, an official announceaeat ••• ■ ade. And, at the Pri•• Minlater•a reaidenoe, luaber Ten Downing Street, a aedical bulletin waa i1aue4. The doctors 4eclarin1: •The Pri ■t Mlniater'• health gives cauae for anxittJ. In our opinion, hi• health will no lonaer enable hia to auatain the heay7 burden• •. lnaeparable troa the office ot Prl ■e Miniater.• In the ■ l4dle ot tb• Sues criaia, •• •• kaow, Sir Aatho111 went otr to the ialand of Ja■ aica on a Yacatioa. S uffering - fro ■ o••r-atrain. The ■edical bulletin ••1•, hi• condition iaproved, but, aince then, hi1 health ha1 declined again. Actuall7 bis health haa been a proble■ for 7ear1. 1 laet talked to hi ■ a nuaber oi 7ea r • ago. Then he looted grey, ashen and trail. The London coaaent i1, of course - that the ~ riae Minister was overborne - by the truitlesa Anglo-French invasion of Egypt, bad relation• between Britain and the United St a te,, and th• disunit7 of public opinion in Britain. The word i1 - that to■orrow ■orning, a new Pri ■• Mini1ter will be announce4. The Queen - declaria1 ber ohoice, aooordiag to traditional fora. Sir AnthoDJ Edea to be auocee4e4 b7 another leader of the Conaer•ati•• Party. Probably I.A. Butler, Lord Pri•f Seal - or Harold MaoKillan, Chaacellor ot the Exchequer. Sir AnthoDJ ■ a, go to the tiouae of Lorda, aoceptina a peeraae - but th•r•'• nothing certain about ,bat. He roae to faae a• Britiah foreign Secreta17 la the daya before World War Two. Thea - in the war cabiae of Priae Miniater Winston Churchill. A protege' ot Churchill'• - whoae niece he ■ arried. Sir linaton - g rooming Eden as a succeaaor. Churchill retiring - Eden stepping in; for a highly favorable start - as the head of the British g overnaent. But now ~ ir AnthoDJ Eden - LIAR - 4 victia of the Sues Canal affair. Her•'• one London prediction that •e••• - a aur• thing. The new Pri ■• Kiniater, whoeyer he aay be, will pro ■ptl7 plan a trip to Waehington - for conferencea with Pr11ident Eiaenhower. E>.SINHOIIIR DOCTRINE In Congress, the Democrats ha•e a substitute tor Preatdent B11enhower 1 1 Middle Eut propo1al~aub1tttute-..- f\ uaailed by Secretar, D,lles, today. Who seid - the Deaocratic tol'llllla would involve this country in any N1d-lutern outbreak, ~ . . even it CQIIIUnia■ waa not inTolffd. ~ i ~ n c e ••I• • " pledpd - in any local hoatilttiea between Arab 1tate1. So let•s aee what the substitute, 1n ,._ .._., 11 tllil • ••••"''• would propcae. It aaya: "The United State■ reprda u •ital to her interest - t?:le preaenatlon ot the independence and 1ntear1ty ot the atatea or the Riddle But. And, lt neceaaary - wtll uae her arMd rorce to that end." So that•• the buts tor the charge - that we would guarantee Middle Eastern frontiers. Intervening with &JWd force - 1r any local border war should occur. The Secretary ot State added - that the Democratic proposal would establish an American "protectorate". Which would be 'bitterly resented" by the Arab nations. I DOCTRINE - 2 The aubatttute has received - some cautious Deaocratlc support. Speaker Su Rayburn saying - he thought t t "aade aenae .• Hilt he hu not endorsed it. ,.,. Pp.or has mentioned tol'ller Secretary ot State Dean Ache■ on, u the author ot the 1ub1tltute. Also - tOl'INr PN1ldent 'l'rullan. But thl■ 1■ denied by Speaker Rayburn, who MN 1, •• , . • he • • 1t••n thl propo■al by what he call■, a "very praa1nent ■an, tol'lllrly hi&h in 1o•ernaent.• So now speculation tocuae1 on the tol'INr Secretary ot the J1r Poree, 'l'hoau 1tnletter, who ••• ,oretp Polley Advlaer to Adlai steyenaon - in the prea1dent1al c•pallfl. IOf Pl'IAN JEWS The United States has expressed ott1c1al concern - about the t~atllent ot Bgyptian Jews. Deported - or otherwi■e a11treated. 'l'he State Departllent eap that U.S. Aabueador RaJIIOnd Hare has taken up the ■atter with IOPtlan Pre11dent Ruaer. Be hu talked to Muser 1everal ttlliil1, urat.111 hlllllall8 treatalnt tor Jewe tn Boi>t. IQBA§TEIX Th• Monastery of St. Catherine, a t the foot of Mount Sinai - unda■ aged. lta p riceleEs treasure• of ancient ■ anuacript1 - intact. So say• a ■ ia1ion eent b7 the United Ration• - to ln•••tiaat• an £g7ptian repca-t that the laraeli• had looted the Tenerabl• bulldlnga. The aona•t•l'J' of St. Catherine - fouaded b7 th• E■peror Ju1tinian, in the Si x th Centur, A.D. Oooupl•4 b7 Greek Orthodox ■onk• - e•er aiaoe. £1••en - at preaeat. Cuatodian• - of so•• of the aoet anciea\ writing• on earth, ■uoh of which••• put on ■lcrofil■ tor our LlbrarJ of Congr••• •••eral 7ear1 ago b7 •• Aatrioan expedition organized b7 that super-energetic ex p lorer, 7oung endell Phillipa of Calitornla, and uscat and O ■ an. The world of scholarship will be ha p 7 to know - no daa ag e done to the aonastery near the aountain. Said to be the p lace - where the L ord g ave M oses the Ten Commandments. Here•e an 1nteroretat1on or recent events - an 1ntere1tt111 slant. Given bJ Rua11an d1pl011at1 in London - c0111Ntntt111 on the recent Anglo-'1 · ench debacle at the S119! Canal. · They say the Br1tlah-Preneh 1011 ot race rat1e1 the status ot Vest Oenuny - by ccr.ipart1on.· 1101111 Veit Genaany - the II08t tllportant B11ropean ■eaber ot the lorth Atlantic 'rNatJ orpnt1atton. So ,a, the Rua■ tan d1~1Clllltl. Addtfll - that thll rlN of Ve■t Gel'II• ■aa ■ lt all the 110re oertaln that SoYtet R•■ta wlll neftr allow the reuntttcatton ot divided Geruny. Inatead, ther/te tnoreutng ttielr ■llttary torcea ln Ca.aant■t Bait Gel'llan,. POLAID A radical change - ann0ttnced in Red Poland. A revolutionary c h a n g e ~ tor a Ca11111nist country. A new agricultural progr• - with sweeping conce11ton1 to the Pollah tal'lllrl. Private ownership ot land - now to be enc~qed. Vlth rlghta - ot aell1ng, renting and inheriting raru. Ccapulaory deliYertea ot agricultural produce to the aovernaent red11oed by one-third. The price paid by the '°'e--nt to tuwn tor ll'a~n~to ~ a -~~"~1 :::::.. v~at~e~en~e~rprtae, #flt J,/,,,1, ~ .. ls J tt•~ - down on the Pollah t81'11. One curioatty, a change ot ■iniatera ot Aar1oultare. The poet now taken by Edward Ochab - toraer head ot the Poliah COllllllniat Party. Whoae place was talatn - by Ocaulka, the ._ ■ t I antt-1talini1t. ••IK> IUJeM tu., N llbeNltt hi the ecwww11t1t , .. ,,..en4'. oc hab - regarded as a St al inia t. Bt1 t, now, he takes charge or a orogram of free ••••s agriculture. Which aee ~ ~ / ( denial of C011111un1sm. Today's dtsoatch from War~aw passes along an opinion - POLAND - 2 hat then w c nc ssi o ns t farm rs ar co nn ct e d closely with for hco m n le t o ns. Polan - oro m is d free elections on January TWenti t h. he farm vote - all lm ort a nt. P . liticians - ang ling for the favor of the farmers. Sounds 11 ke - the good old l . S . A . · All of whim has a 'liberal" sound - if only it lasts. But I recall a similar thing in 3oviet Russia - back in the •~enties. I was there, at the time. Wh n Lenin's "new economic policy" - restored free enterprise, in some degree. Only to be followed, in a few years - by the savage agricultural ~ policy of Stalin. Collectiviring the fanners by force - millions of peasants perishing. GARY h t t a a ske t ons, to y - o tall sh a c mmi t e to inv s i a the H un garian revolution. And th bru al way the R s stans cru sh d the r v o lt. The suggestton ts for a five-nation ou to make observations in H ngary - taking testimony and collecting evidence. The resolution - s onsored by twenty-four countri e s in the U.N. Meanwhile, the puppet regime in B udapest ts cracking down on Hungarian intellectuals. With an indictment - of eleven persons today. Including - a cou p le of Hungary's top ranking writers. The intellectuals are charged with publishing illegal ~ newspapers - during the time of the revolt llf tle Russian suppression. Specifically, they're accused of inciting the demonstration on Decemb r }ourth - Hungarian women against " Russian tanks. YEM . h _ • m · w a l n , y'v '= - a a rt 1 e r s a -Fre c ~n as! .... ~ , t e M n1s r _ Y ~ e . • a s g ve e ,, , r a , wi f_g n ries . - , . . j .. _ ► • _ .. _ _ ,. __ - · c la r , . t Jr eere" . ,. . .. . . - ng - 008, YEME - 2 Tribal warriors of Sherif ussein, ruler o f eihan, the wer in battle against,.. invaders. 'he Br tish venom jE>ts - - using their cannon to dislodge soldiers of the Yemen from positions in the mountains. C n t o r a lan d of is issi o . 1 r t a n s o st - as Cha rm~n o f the Senate Judiciary Committ e e . Ea stl an d - unde r itter atta ck in th e rac ial ri g h ts issu . he only o ne v ot ing agains him to da y, was Sen ato r P ~ ul Douglas o f I llinois. A lthough we hear that sev ra l other liberal D mocrats - share the Douglas o inion. The question came u o , when the two Parties presented their lists of members on Senate Committees. The lists - aoproved. Meanwhile, Democratic Leader, senator Lyndon Johnson o f Texas, has joined Re ublican Leader ~owland of California - in sponsoring a compromise on filibusters. The Johnson-Knowland ro osal would make it easier for the axa Senate to break filibusters. W i thout amending the rules as drastically as D emocratic liberals had been proposin g . tle ans r a i al s gre g ation took a n e f o rm in t1e S o th to ay. When, at tlanta, Georgia - twelve egro Ministers boarde a segregated bus, and took seats res rved for whites. They carried Bibles - and sang hymns. o trouble - but the white passengers got off. Leaving the egro Pastors - to ride alone. Which they did for six blocks - and ended the demonstration. They say they'll continue to take bus rides in the same way - as Bible carrying, hymn singing preachers. FFAIJJ laska g · s i s o n - w n ld Jo . For h fi ft h im 1 oe c r a o k-ou . 's a uf al - man and ornery. Who, u t er in the A laskan wildern ss, has d eveloped a gru e against civili atio. Old Joe 's mort 1 nemy the au t o mobile. t t ; / t , L / ~ . - 4 , 1 . ~ r f ~ C L U ~ whenev er he sees one o n A ~ highway - h am! - , , A ime and ag ain, that buffalo has charged automobiles - reducing them to wreckage. His latest victory - over an Alaskan p olice car. Which was rolling along- when Old Joe came lumbering to the attack. Occupants of the ca leaped t,o safety - as the buffalo butted that automobile right off the road and into a ditch. ~ ) ~ 1 ld Joe - still the undefeated chS111oion of Alaskan high ways. LTP.1957.01.09i.pdf LTP.1957.01.09ii.pdf