FORMOSA L.T.-DELCO. THURSDAY, OCT. 23, 1958 (Given by Walter Cronkite,L.T.in So.Pacific) The United States and the Chinese Nationalists-~ exchan g ed pled g es. aa ~•peFtea fPe■ FePmeea, ieda,, A AU,, communique issued - ~ Secretary of State John Fater Dulles and Generalissimo Chian g Kai-shek ended their talks. The exchaa-. - • ,,,ul of pledges~ re g arded as a sort of compromise to• save the prestige of both partieslchiang Kai-shek - renounces the use of force against the Communist mainland. His policy will now be - peace along the China coast. But this is hedged with a condition. The Nationalists - reserving the privilege of intervening on the mainland, in caee of a revolt against the Communist regime. Something like a Chinese version of the Hungarian rebellion, which broke out Just two years ago today. The United States pledges to regard the defense of the off-shore islands - as connected with the protection of Formosa itself. But there's a condition - attached to that. We agree to defend Quemoy and Matsu - "under present conditions. 11 Presumably leaving the United States in a position to decide - when, and if, "present conditions" change. FORMOOA - 2 Today, as the Dulles-Chiang Kai-shek agreemenet was made public - the Communist bombardment of the Quemoy Islands , came to a sudden halt. The shelling etopped at noon, Formosa time - and the Reds haven 1 t fired a shot since. \,J;S~ ftewa liiorreapondent t'eter lalischer, in Taipeh, sais there was a secret agreeaent between ~ullea and ~hiang as well. The agreement proviuing that ~hian1 will reuuce the size of his large garrisons on ~uemo7 and. llatau. Moscow announces - that ~oviet ~ussia will lend the United Arab ~epublic a hunQred million dollar• - tor the construction of the Aswan high dam. That project for irrigation in £gypt - long puaheQ bJ ~aaser, the Egyptian ~trong Man. The United ~tatea waa interested in aiding the construction of an Aswan daa - but the proposal was withdrawn a couple of Jtara ago. And -•sser's reaction to the Am ~ rican rebuff was credited with bringlna about the ~uez ~anal criala. ~o now ,hrushohev aaya - the Soviets will step in where America refused to tred - to the tune of 100 ■ illion dollars. - NOBEL PRIZE Today I s award of the Nobel . Pr i ze for Lit rature p rom is e s i nternational reverberations - i n the cold war between East and · l est. The Comm i ttee in Sto~kholm - g ranting the honor . writer to Boris Pasternak, A Russian/w.lW:a•1, author of a novel that 1 s an i nternational best seller. But - is banned in Soviet Russia. Durin g the terror of the Stalin purges in the 1 Thirties, Pasternal< refused to sign a document approving of Stalin's executions of the Russian generals. Then, after Stalin's death, he came out with hie novel - "Doctor Zhivago". Telling the story - of a cultured physician, ruined by · the Red bureaucracy. At first the novel was okayed in Russia. Then - banned. However, an Italian Communist had access to the manuscript - and published "Doctor Zhiva g o" in Italian. It was then published in ei g hteen countries. In today's award of the Nobel Prize, the Secretary General o the Swedish Academy compared "Doctor Zhivago" to Tolstoy's "War and Peace." But, immediately, a Swedish ) l NOBEL PRIZE - 2 Communist leader called the award - an 11 insult" to Soviet Rl.ti sia The I Nobel Committee today sent the usual invitation to Boris Pasternak - inviting him to Stockholm to receive the prize. But it isn't known if the Soviet government will permit him to go. They don 1 t even know if Pasternak will be able to accept - the Nobel Prize. By way of coincidence, this Nobel Prize award was made on the second anniversary of the beginning of the Hungarian Revolt of Nineteen Fifty-six. The patriotic rebellion - crushed i savagely by Soviet Russian tanks. 37 CUBA - T h e Cuban rebels, today, released the t wo Amer i can o il company employees t h e y ki dnapped on Monda y . Charles Bennett a n d Kenneth Drews, of the Texas Company - turned loose unharmed_,: Together with seven Cuban employees of the oil company, who were ki dnapped at the same time. Thie followed a communication from the State Department in Washington - demanding that the rebels release the prisoners at once. The department - accusing them of "callous disregard" of American rights. This, apparently, did the trick. Meanwhile, the word in Cuba is that the rebels are planning an all-out push against the Havana government. To disrupt the general elections - called for November Third. il\.KOV tH -·· ----- P resident ~isenhower, toaay, p roaoted - Rear Admir a l Hyman ~ickover. That n a val c«icer - so p rominent in the develo aent of t he atomic submarine, an d so often at o a ~s with the N vy high command. ~ecause, amon g other things, of Aickover's unceasing chaa p ionship of atomic subs. ln •ashington, there had been considerable doubt - that he would ever get a proaotion. ~ut the pressure froa congress was heavy and President •isenhower, today, raised Rear Admiral Rickover - to the rank 0£ Vice-Admiral. · CIVIL RIGHT S T h e Civil Rights Commiss i on will hoid a hearing at Mont g omery, Alabama, December Eighth - to lool c into char g es that Negroes are being denied the ri gh t to vote. On Monday, the Comm issi on asked for the voting records of Macon County,Alabama, but the local authorities refused the request. Today the Commmilsion stated - the voting records may be subpoenaed, when the hearing 1s held at the capital of the state. l The Commission also says - there'll be an investigatio in New York. Looking - into possible racial discrimination in public housing projects. They say, there's no feeling that the City has been at all negligent. They simply want to gather p g eneral information about public housing and racial rights. Meanwhile, the FBI has moved into the fight - against bombing outrages. The hate campaign - which threatens churches, synagogues, and integrated schools. Director J.Edgar Hoover ~ announces - that the FBI will hold special conferences 4 .,-state and local police. Which indicates increasing concern by the federal government - over the hate-bombings in several parts 01' the country. SATELLITE The Army will never kn ow - why th e balloon eatellite failed to et i nto an orbit. They say: "It's like aax reconstructing an acc i dent, when you h ave no witnesses." In the launchin tt at Cape Canaveral last ni ght , something went wron g imm ediatel y after the Jupiter rocket was ill'. fired. Missile expert/Jack Froel i ch explains: "The radio transmitter started giving abnormal signals, after about one h undred and ten seconds. D t 111 t■ma,ltcl•••••t A But we don• t k now, 11 he adds, "whether this was caused by difficulties in the transmitter, or in the rocket." Less than ten minutee after the launching, all contact with the rocket and i ts radio was lost. And - they'll never know why. ROBES In London, there•s a shortage - of a most aristocratic Eort. Not enough scarle+nd ermine robes - to g o around for the peers of the realm. The splendor of scar et and ermine is worn - at the formal opening of Parliament. Most oi' the peers don•t own their own - and hire them from a company. , . . Ordinarily, a lot of earls and barons don 1 t bother to attend the opening of Parliament. But, this time, there'll be many more than usual. Because the formal opening of Parliament, next week, will be televised. Many a peer of the realm - wanting to be s . een on TV. Hence the shortaga - of the scarlet and ermine. Today the situation was emphasized - by an advertisement in the classified section of the Times of London. The Ad readin g : "Will any baron, not requiring his robes for the open i n g of Parliament next Tuesday, please write Box Oh Six Two S ix ." ROBES - 2 One baron - hoping another baron, who has his own robe, won't attend the ceremony on television. And will be willing to rent the regalia.