c. c. : _L.T. ~-G~~ T BDR§DAYt DECEKBE R ¾~L~l92.!t ~arles Co lngwood sub.) GOOD EVEiiiG, EVERYBODY! The ratification of rear ■ a ■ ent for Weit Ceraany is safely through the French Cbaaber of De,:aties • . . It wa s n I t every thin& that Preaier ltn4tl- rrance had wanted, n~ reeoundlna •lctory. Tb• aaJorit7i wa1 only 27 vote•: 287 to 268 - bat et least the Deputiee did put their okay on · the proposal to briDI •••t Geraan7 into tb• n•• leatern Europeaa union, which••• a critical point. Tb• Deputi•• oalle4 tor an iaaediate Tote wbea they •••••bled today. litbia two hours the Yott waa taken and counted. lhen th• speaker announced the results, approval of le1t Geraan rearaaaent, the aeabera of the Coaauniat party stood up ln a body. They began to about inaulta at - 2 - Ot her Deputies. One woman sh ~ h fi oo. er at and screamed words like "assassina•, 'bandits•, •N a zis•. f inally the ushers had to cordon off the Coaaunist section while the other Deputies walked out. Around the buildin& th6 Reds had arranged another deaonstration, outside, a crowd controlled b7 Communist leaders. lhen the verdici ••• announced, the7 all beaan to sin& the irench lationa Anthea, the laraei~laiae. The police finall7 aanage4 to keep the deaonetratlon lo hand. Eventaall7 the ie4• aot tired and walked •••1· Paris obaervers declare tbat toda7•1 •ote and it• afteraath ls the 1reateat Couuolat defeat since 1945. Thi ■ •••n• that Chancellor Adenauer'• Govern- aent in leat Geraan7 will have the right to rai•• an ara, of llelt a aillion 11eo to wort with th• other alliea; , There will also bean•• Geraan •ir tore• and a new Geraan navy_ but both verJ aaall. Of course, th• aoat iaportant result of today'• vote in the Paris Cbaaber ot - 3- Deputies is that France reaains a aajor ally of Britain and Americ a . Admirers of the French were fearful that th• vote mig ht be negative; in which case both London and Washington were prepared to bypass France as un- reliable. Now that danger is over. The Deputies gave the prestige of their country a big boost when they Toted as they did. IJ#Ullflll Shortly after the French vote••• ■ad• public, Pre1ident Eisenhower i1aued a atateaent at his vacation hoae in Au1uata, Georgia. Mr. Eisenhower had been rea47 to fl7 back to lasbin1ton it franc• turned down leat Ger.aan rearaaaent, but the taYorable Yote ■ ade hi■ deo14• to 1tay on at the Au1a1ta Golf Club. In his atate■ ent Ir. Eisenhower said he••• very &ratified. Be polntod out that a lot re■ ains to be done, but that the def•••• ot the free world is now strengthened by the inclusion ot •••t Ger■any with the aar••••nt of the French. Secretary Dulles and the leaders of leatern Europe alao •xpresaed satisfaction. - 4 - But there's a very differant ~ reaction, as you aight expect, behind the Iron Curtain. The Coamuniat lin• is summed up in a broadcast tonite by the Prague Radio, •hicb says that the •ote in the Cba■ber of Dtputies •as due to what it calls •the ruthleie terror, threats and machinations of Mendes-France and his Aaerican and British partners.• ---0--- In another big diploaatic atory, the Seoretar7 ' G•ntral of th• United lation1 ia on hia ••1 to London. D11 BaaaarakJold ba1 l•ft ••• York'• Internatioaal Airport in a Super-Conatellation of our lllitary Air Tran1port SerYice. Be's oft to Loadon on tb• firat 1•1 of a Jo•rney that will end at Peiping, in Rtd China • • Tbtrt ht will confer with Chou ln-lai about thoat tlt•tn Aatrican airaen sentenced to prieon laat aonth. · le~ll 1110 raise the question of alaoat three thouaand United - 5 - lations troo p s still held by the »ao T se-tun g re&ime. our Aab as sador to the O.N., Henry Cabot Lod&e, was at the airport to see the Secretary General off. Baaaarskjold delivered a brief•••••&• about hi• aiaaion. St aade it clear that he has no intention of b111in& Chou En-lai to release the prisoners and be won't n•- aotiate about the question of a seat in the 0.1. for led China either, or about &DJ other l••u• except the priaoners. Ad ■ itting that be doesn't know what tbe r•- 1alt •111 be, the Secretar7 General added: •1 caa onl7 1a7 that I aball do •1 beat.• Baaaarakjold will arri•• in London tomorrow aornin&. 81 1 11 confer there •ltb Britlah Forei&n S1cr1tar7 Antbon7 Iden before tl7in& oa to lew Delhi. In the Indian oapltal he'll ■eet Preaier ■ •hru, in a 1econd oonfereace. Tb•• he'll be ' off tor Cbiaa and hia oonfereace with Cboa la-lai. --0-- Attorney General Herbert Brownell today indica- ttd that he wants to put twent7-aeven new organi zat ions - 6 - on the list o f subversive 6 roups. B rownell is giving them ten days to defend themselves. Otherwise, they're to go down on his list under the teraa of the McCarran Coaaunist Control Act. The Attorney General'• liat la used by both the Governaent and pri•ate bualD••• in de- teraining the status of e■plo7es. At tbe saae ti ■• tbe Chairman of the Subversive Activities Control Board de- clares that the Jefferson School of Social ~olence in le• York City should also be co ■ pelled to reaiater, Cbairaan Thomas Herbert aaying that tbe Jefferson School la Coa■ uniat-controlled. Ser•'• a report io• fro■ E17pt, which ancient land baa been going tbru a dangerous criaia. Lowell Tho■as, on bis ••7 to southern Aaia, baa aad• a atop at Cairo and gi••• ua a recorded account of the 1tate of affairs there. - 7 - L. T. : -- From Cairo this time th J - e aile flowing by right outside m r windo · feluccas drifting along with their lateen sails just as they have drifted since the days of the lha raohs and Cleopatra. One ot my first iapreeaions of Cairo . this time is that it's a n armed camp. Almost every ti■• you look up, military trucks are going by. There••••• to be a note of uncertainty in the air - and maybe it originates right up at the top of the Govern■ent; for there is a report that Colonel Nasser, the Str•g Kan of the revolution, is sleeping ln a different bed every nite - one wa7 to avoid aaaaaaination. At any rate, the re1ular Cairo winter ••••o• ••••• to be on full blast - hotels Jaaaed, nt• ont• going up all around; the new Coara4 ' liltoa-on-the-1111 and, of course, a new Shtphearde. At the Se■ ira■ i• tbefr patting the overflow on board the Queen Mother's yacht, which is anchored just outside our window. - 8 - And hat h 'p p ened to President Naguib, the p opular idol of the r e volu t io n that ousted Farouk. Gamal Faris ( ), Cairo adio newsman, has just been te lling me that Nagui is merely confined to q uarters, appar- ently in no danger of losing hi life. But ri g ht from the start, h e w as only the front man for the military • group that took ver; but then he became much, ~uch too popular to suit them, too enthusiastic about W estern idea s , too. So the rest of the military group just shoved him in the background. ls for the condition of the people? Better than bef~re , s ays Gamal Faris. Taxes out a lot. But the n e · regime h as put a heavy toll on imports; for example, a sixty per cent tax on American cars. That's one ay that they're making it up. Nasser is reported ill, ~ut if b e recovers overnite, before I f ly on up the ile to the Sud~n, •ell, I ia y have a story for you from him tomorro. C. C. : -- Okay, Lowell! e'l be wai ing for a other report an d hope that P re 1er lasser gets well. lllQI Spe kin of trips, the hite Bo.a announced tonight that Vice President Nixon and his wife will make a good-will tour of the C ribbean area in February. The Vice Presi ent's assignment will be similar to that which took him on a 45,000-mile tour of nineteen countries a year ago. he Eisenhower Administration believe that Nixon made a lot of friends for the Dnited States on that trip. James Hagerty, the White Bouse news secretary, said that the Caribbean trip was being made at the request of President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles. ~o Vice President Mixon is going to do some travelling! ---0--- IIPQll§.l! Five Prime Ministers addressed a great mass meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia, today as they concluded their conference. he Prime ~inisters represente - 1 0 - In onesia, In i a , Ceyl on, B ur a an Pak i ta n. All five spoke on simil i e m es, conce r nin 6 t he ece sity of building u econo ic strength a nd po litic 1 solidarit 1 in Asia. The key thought was put by the Prime Minister of Ceylon, ir John Kotelawala, who pointed out that the East is about a hundred years behind the est economical]J ' "The world reg a rd s Asia as bein in second place,• he said. hen he added: "Some of our people are content with second place . This must stop and the whole of Asia must work together." The other speakers agreed w ith him, in particular lndia's Prime inister Nehru, who declared that raising the standard of living is even more important than independence. Following the Jakarta mass meeting, the leaders went home. Observers in Indonesia say that the dominant role at the conference was played by Nehru, who was largely responsible for l 1ing Red China invited to the great meeting of Africans a nd Asians t hat ill be held in Indonesia next April. --11-- anada 's Dav id Dun lo p Observatory may have to move - so revealed by the D irector, Dr. J. r. Herd. He says that the ob ervatory is just too close to loronto ' so th a t photogra hs of the stars are being fogged by neon lights. he Director adds that business men have been asked to reduce the lighting of their signs, but so far are not cooperating and the observatory and its scientists may have to move somewhere else. A dispatch from the Indian Province of Deradun~ reveals that the Nehru Government is planning to kill tigers that roam the jungle tbere. And the reason is one that you don't often hear about in connection with tigers. The Government is tryin to save the lions of Deradun. 0ntil the beginning of the 19th Century, lions roamed freely through the jungles of Indi a , but under the British East India Company it became so fash- ionable to shoot the king of beasts that th ey began to die off. So, by 1900 it was estimated that less than • - 12 - 150 lion s rem a in ed . It was the g reat Lord Curzon who decided L o do o m ethin g abo ut it. /J he n he , a s overnor Gener 1 of Indi a he h a d a sanctuary f or lions established, after hich the nu ber increased - and the concentration of all its lion s in one pot. So it was decided to take some of them to the Province of Deradun. But there was one great obstacle: tigers. The big, striped cat is more than a match for his cousin, whom we call the king of beasts. o, they'll have to kill off the tigers if the lions are to survive in the Province of Deradun. And, Bugh, that's why tiger hunters are being encouraged to operate in the jungles of Deradun!