Peace and haraony ruled today's meeting at the Security Council of the United Rations, for the ti ■• beiDg at least. Gro ■yko, the Soviet delegate, waa oot there, but · the proceeding• auat have been to bia 1ati1factioa. On the aotioD of Secretary Byrne• of the U.S.A., the Council deferred con•ideration of the caae of Iran, deferred it until lay Sixth. That'• the date that tbe Soviet Governaeat ha• aaaigned for the final departure of ita laat troop• out of Peraiaa territo•J• lowever, there ie a atring to the resolution. It leaves tke Council free to reconaider the diapute bet•••• the luaaians and the Iranian• if the Soviet Governaent doean't keep its word. 5'JC. Byrne••• resolution use• specifically the word . •deferred.• And it further call• upon the Soviet Government and the l~anian Governmen~ to report on lay Sixth whether ■z the withdrawal of Soviet troop• L.1· - 2 fro• the whole of Iran has been coapleted. There ~ i■ "t~ a pro•i■o that if, in the aeantiae, eit~er the Soviet Governaent or the Iranian Governaent, ) • any other ae■ber of the Council, report• anything that , 1e••• to retard or threaten the proapt withdrawal Soviet troop1, 1uch report• will becoae the fir1t it•• oa the agenda before the Council. ■ aid categoricallJ that he wa• offeripl 5Jc,lyrne1 ~ ~ , J resolutioa aacle by the thi• a• a result ~t ihe~eplies Soviet and Iranian GoTernment1 1 a,,n=TNd\ the acknowledgment• that Soviet troops were being withdrawa. The resolution was adopted with only o~• objection. lkil Qco fro• Colonel W.R. Bodg■oa, th• ,. ~ Au■tralian delegate)~ ■tood up on a point of legalitJ ,-Gt and the wording of the United Ration• Charter ~ protested that the Council bad no~ 7et ascertained the complete facts for ~ocumentary proof. He aaid further that Australia atanda for the principle t~at the Council shall not. take &DJ d ec is ion •i tbout careful, orderly and methodical examioat ion of all th• fact• relatio& to tbe . diepute. lowbere in the ••lden o e, oo•ld Colonel lod1100 find anJ aeaurance on the queatloa of A1erbaijaa • .. ~ tl&,-1:,,.9 ... _ .... With the exception ofA .... gA" tbe'other me■bera of the Council not only voted for the resolution, but were enthuaiastic about it. One after another rose in hil place and coaP,liaented the Secretar7i. Byrne• aade the re■ ark that, after all, the unconditional withdrawal of troop• i• th• only•••• ■ethod of diepoaing of any question of interference i■ the govern■ent of Iran. The rest ~f the Council, with th• exceptio'!--:r~i!:'on, agreed that this bad beeD /\ accoapliahed. laving adopted the resolution, the Council adjourned until next Tuesday, and thea went off to lunch together, where, fro ■ all account•, they bed an exceedin1l1 congenial tiae. Colonel Hodgson stuck to hi• guns, said be didn't think tbe Council b d met th situation ~ roperly, but he cheered up at lunch, and was 7G ~ o9-t£e ~_A~~~~;,~. quite chatty with newspapermen.~r~myko, 1nc1dentally, joined the■ at lunch. The proceedings today were short, and evidently the public expected as much, for there were vacant seats at the meeting. Evidently, too, the word aot around that Delegate Groay~o would not be there. IBAI ----- troops have occupied Iarau, a city twenty-five miles ntrthweet of Teberan. · The Iranian soldiers are aoving cautiously, Soviet forces, taking no chances of friction. ~ bat aakes two Iranian cities Rift the Soviets have evacuated since Moscow announced the witbdraw71, eleven days ago. ~~, ~~~is inforaation co■es from B*itieb sourc••• A Iranian Prime •inister Gbavaa and th• R•••ian l ■~a11ador are busy negotiating, on four point• of ~ 4iapute. One, of cour••• Azerbaijan. la4 tb• aecoa4,,:J. ~ , oil cono•••iona. They are also discussing fishing ri1hta in the aoutbern part of the Ca1pian Seat and the matter of a Russian railroad which is being operated in norther• Iran. • PEPPER ------------ There a v e hement criticism tod y of th conduct of the United State nd Great Brit ain toward Russia. In fact, the two p e o ~ wer e charged with gan ing up a~ -fi.ut£,, on the Soviets.)ThisAcharge was not aade in Moscow, but in Washington, on the floor of the Senate of the United States. The lpeaker, Senator Claude Pepper of Florida, once an infallible spokesman for the late , ~ President Roosevelt and.A uncompromising ch a mpion of the le• Deal. It all came~ about because Senator Toa Connally of Texas, as Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee and a delegate to the U.I., spoke in praise of the Soviet action in withdrawing troops from Iran. Be described it as a triuaph of the principal's of the n- U.B. Charter an d ,Athe strength of the Security Council. w as the cue for:~pper. He jumped to his feet and let loose on John Bu l . B hou d : wif the British w nt Russ ia n tr op s out of Iran, 1 t the et t h e i r ~ tr ops out of Iraq and Palestine and Transjord a n.w Bis violent remarks produced equally violent repercussions. Other senators tried to interrupt and contradict and shout hi■ down. But none of the interruptions ceae froa Republican s e n tors. Pepper'• antagonists in debate were all Democrats. Re continued to shout: •It's easy to gang up on the Ruasiana.• And then he said that we used to gang up o,b•• wben they we.re fightil).g their own er.are, an,bat we have been ganging up on the■ ever since. ~ c q - a ~ a t c h of 9ew Mexico,Lo iae:. e§re& ~ 1 1 , r . ~ a ~ the implication that Uncle Sam is ganging up with deplored anybody •i•• against Russia, and he ~••l•x•iA the fact \ that a United States senator should make such a~~ statement. PEPPE - 3 ------ ~ , Peppe r 1,w a nted to kn o w what has the American U.N. dele ation done about Indonesia; what bas it done about other areas where other people's troops are? policy which says to everybody, get out of everybody else's country. '- Be was ■oat bitter against tbe B r i ~ t b e J QT• I\ •anctiaonious when they pretend . . to be for freedoa -n:J- all over the world.~4..11 they really want is freedoa for loyal Englishmen. •what I decry,• added Pepper, •is thi• international sham and hypocricy.• Pepper also aaid that if anybody in this country, or in its Congress, raises his voice in favor of Russia, be iB accused of being 4:omaunist. PEAC CO F . E NCE ----------- -- ---- , Tb Pe c e Conf rence will n ot b held on Ila)' First. The Sovi e t Government objects. Yo •cow b a s notified the French Govern ent th the Soviets do not think the Conference should be in until the aajor powers have first reached a full a r e ement on the drafts of the treaties to be negotiated with countries ~ satellites of the Axis. litb Russia objecting, that ■ost probably wiJR ■ean& po■tponeaent;/- SPY --- ~ An• spy story from the F.B.I Early in Ninet en Forty-two, the Nazis dispatched an a ent to th United States, to find out as aucb as he could of our atomic bo■b aecretw. Be p osed as a Dutch jeweler - und r th• ~ame of Van Loop, and tried to get in by way of Madrid and Portugal. At Madrid be went to the American Consulate for a visa. Soae intelligent official there •a• through th• 41aguiae of Jeweler Van Loop, and the Consulate tipped Washington off. There the r.B.l. took over. Qnd J. ■ ericaa Edgar Hoover tall■ ho• it was dona in th• current~• ■ai■ la~azi:J They let Van Loop into the countrJ, put bi■ up at a hotel in le• York, and questioned bi■. Be broke down, ad■itted ha was a ■PY· /ii• b:'.:oke don to such an extent ~3 Hoover' ■ agents were able to pe auade hi■ to turh counter-spy. They found out that he bad done SPY - --- espiona e work for the Germ ns in the first World War. . . • up a sere So in Van Loop's nam the FBI s t c radio station on Long Island, and made contact with the lazi etation at Hamburg. They didn't trust Van Loop any too far, but ■ade full use of hi■. For three years that radio station on Long Island kept up communication with Baaburg without a b r e a ~ l e d the ■azia coapletely. Shortly before the lormandy inva•ion, the German• told Van Loop to forget all about atomic bombs and send the■ what be could find out about Aaerican invasion plan1. The r.B.l. a ents complied, sent along inforaation, all of it false. They gave the lazie to understand that the in•ading troops would take off fro• Iceland to attack lorway. To aake that all the more plausible, phoney buildings were aet up all over Iceland, aade to look like barracks, and the German observation planes spotted them. SPY - 3 -- The r es ult was that Hit l er and bis oys took utaoat pr e c a utions to protect Norway wa from inv a s i o n , ~ ~ to be ,ep l ace6 until A the last aomen~ rooD ------ dlLt as F . 11 ~ ~ o t - ~ . J 1ore o LaGuard1a todays n a mes a e to ,1,.._ , ur e• / all fundamental ~ stamp out bla ck mar k ts."Countries •ho are helping others,• s ai d he, are not giving genero u&l y of th eir food and other goods, in order to benefit privat e profit era abroad.• lext, he urged liberated countries to put more aen to work, producing food. •Place more men behind the plough and fewer under aras,•is the way he put it. He added that he intended to increase his pppeals to the ~ countries for even more generous assistance. -di: But,.he added,~the peoples who need tat• help aust do their part. 0 ' Pope Piua l ■• twcltt• today issued an eloquent appeal to the conscience of the world. Be begged all peop~s to forget their enmities, to impose a silence . on the ranc~r begotten by the war, and, as he put it, rooD - 2 ---~~ II " - leave th ei r minds n d he a rts o p n to the holy voice of human brotherhood.• The human race, declared the Pontiff, is threatened by famine. An, be added, •famine of itself, is the cause of incalcu l able unrest,.-in the midst of f which the future peace..,.-runs the risk of bein g suffocated before being b rn.• The United S t a t e s , ~ the P o p e , • • • ~ generously taken the lead, and Ila . . placed at the ser•ic1 of this holy caus& ~ gigantic power of production. ~ The Pontiff's plea was directed particulat\' to the Apeople of Argentina and Brazil. lie sug g ested rstionin1 in those countries. Last week LaGuardia declared that rationing in the United states would be impracticable because the crisis would be over before ration control m asures could be set in•••• motion. But the Pope, from his point of vantage in Rome, with information coming from bis Bishops all over the world, FOOD - 3 ------- ~ contempla es an even longer period of nee • ~ointl.i -- - -' ~ out that by the beginnin of the next harvest, practically no th in wlll remain in res rve. Th¢-tl..-c difficult food situation in cons quence aay persist unt.il the follo ing harvest. ly!bePI .. tt:i n Giaost . sixteen months during which millions of people will have caused to be anxious about their daily bread IET!llAIS _______ .. __ , la veter a ns at Connellsvillet Pennsylvania, did omething tod a y which is characteristic of the new spi~it among returning soldiers. The people of Connellsville wanted to give the ■ a aass celebration. The veterans theaaelvee objected. Three hundred of the ■ ~ ~ signed a petition which said: •we feel that this A. " celebration is not the proper type ol thing to hold when so aany of our buddies failed to return.• And they added the auggestion that the people of Connellsville ahoul4 take the ten thouaand dollars Alf 411d eubecribe~ & ~ p a r t y , and uee it to build a Town Ball as a ■ eaorial to those who tell in the war. Fiction thrillers have been written about aurders in movie atudioa. L ast night there was a real one, and the Hollywood police describe it•• •aurder in #ell.• It happened after a party on a set tdl•* ' ~ re pre sen I rt' A). - Pa~l Kuni threw the part7 to celebrate the finish of a picture called •Angel OD ay Shoulder,• baaed oD a atorJ about a crook who goea to /lell. The fiction of the fila t•raed to gria reality whea •• electrician was fo-und unconaci~u• ,_. dying in studio'- a t r e e t , ~ - f t e r the part7 wa■ the over. It wa• pointed out that a jinx appeared to attend the filaing of that picture. First the A■1i1tant Director bad a heart attack. Then Paul Kuni himself wa■ ill; Claude Raina and Ann Baxter were ill, fi■e after ti■e 1booting was held up. low the crime, which police declare to be a aurder. · Rear bis body they found ~1• wrist watch. I.ff sw•\IAitt.:a,RIA Lil Ilia pocket~ a lead penn7. Elll21 Marcel Petiot, the ■ quat llt't:$e French Bluebeard, · Hguilty. A f t e ~ ove~ly three hours, the jurors convicted hia of having aurdered no fewer ~ than twenty-seven people. ~ received a proapt 1entence of death by guillotine . . end,-one of the weirdest ca1e1 ,... - -- : . - ~- -- . in the annal• of e•en French criainology. aldrb 4 ae¼d• t•• tilifll If ■■iif I w■tlw■atscs wwl•d crtse 0