L. T. - smoco. IinjRL'^Y NOVRIBER IQ, 1 good evening everybody ? IiGt s bsgln tonight' s hnoculc&st with a string of six foreign stories, a round half dozen from abroad. That sounds like a whole lot, if not too much. Here are six date lines; - London, Paris, Moscow, Rome, Berlin, and Madrid. That array of European capitals — all focused on one topic. Bo it must be an important dangerous topic — something of world peril. And it is. ^oday, the biggest job for the news men was to survey the international reverberations that follow Italy1 s recognition and Germany^ recog­ nition of General Francofs Rebel government in Spain. Tonight, in three of the six capital cities, we get a vivid impression of nhushl hush!” donTt play it up! Don!t say much about it. It doesn’t mean so much as it seems. Nothing is so greatly changed. Hush hush! " First - London. The watchword there today was - caution England LEAD - 2 on the fence between the cohorts of Fascism and Communism. Officials disinclined^to discuss the*Italian-German action. Yet, in the House of ComraonS today, parliamentary procedure forced Foreign Minister Anthony Eden to speak up. An M.P. insisted on asking questions, and His MajestyTs Minister JiagL^to reply - even though the M.P*. was a Communist, the sort that loves to ask awkward •’questions. Eden declared that His MajestyTs government believed it was possible for A the two Fascist powers to stick to the agreement for non­ intervention in Spain, thio—An opito of the Pac t iAhat thnpg-' In71 ii him — i111 rfT Hi miHtini Sfilmn Fynn-i ■—n* "thr'ml tar ■ The Foreign Minister added that His Majesty’s government is prepared to ask Italy and Germany for renewed promises not to ship floods of war materials to Franco. The suave and dapper statesman applied the soft pedal still further by making a sharp retort to the Communist M.P. He stated acidly that up to now Italy and Germany had supported non-intervention rather* better than some other nations he could mention. The slap at other nations referred LEAD - 5 for the most part to Soviet Russia, which seems to have been shipping battle planes^ HW.il tfwirt*. So Foreign Minister Eden's statements in Parliament 7 today show Great Britain keeping cool, not excited about the latest exploit of the Fascist partners. -4—- On the other hand, London today spoke words * yv, ^ to General Franco, saying - nMo blockade:, we won't recognize any •n Tnis follows the proclamation of a blockade by the Spanish hirFb( National command - a blockade of the >ors of Barcelona and Alicante. If Franco1s blockaders monkey around with any British ships, hehave to answer to London. The British stand on this is clear enough. England OW%\ is always keen to defend her rights at sea. Moreover, in A international lavf, rebels have right to declare a blockade against a legal government. If London accepted Francofs JDOiiUUii 4. a-“j.*'-'..' w _ PwrviSL& •***^@**^£^E&f nt. i«Mi33fe recognize Franco * manifesto without a protest - that aBsnaafc recognize A A as the proper ruler of Spain. In this blockade affair we hear that Madrid is mobilizing its warships for action. The Spanish fleet is I! LEAD - 4 divided between the Left Wingers and the Rebels. In the early part oi the civil ws-r. Madrid certainly had the more powerful part of^fcg^ but right now it»s hard to tell how far the Left Wing ships have been smacked about and knocked about - by sky bombs for example. General Franco is known to have a couple of good cruisers and various other craft in the Mediterranean. The blockade stories, more.over, make mention of submarines and bombing planes - and project the idea of enforcing a blockade from under the sea and from the sky. ** Paris. Silence mostly, silence and rumors. Itrs known that Paris will follow the lead of London in responding to the Italian-German recognition of franco. There are French rumors that Germany will send military units to Spain. These reports are so specific as to decla*re that right now German anti-aircraft batteries have been ordered to the Iberian Peninsula, eight hundred men with a full equipment of guns. Nothing is said officially* All we have are a few words from a semi-official source, and soothing words they are. The Soviets donft consider that the Italian- LEAD - 5 German recognition changes the situation particularly, so the unofficial spokesman declares. It won’t cause Red Dictator Stalin to change his course of action, won’t mean any increased Soviet help Madrid. Today’s word from Moscow completes the A* impression of - hush, hush, don’t say anything much. / Home. and the word is - more guns, more warships, more battle planes. The Fascist Grand Council met today, Mussolini presiding, and ordered an instant speeding up of Italy’s armament building program. It put emphatic stress on sea power and air power. The decree reads like this: ’’The military preparation of Italy in this special moment," it says. "must be accelerated, - above all, in the aerial and naval fields." The significant phrase is - "in this special moment", meaning this special crisis brought on by the Italian-German action. Berlin. Hitler’s government made some swift M a . decisions, ordering its diplomatic representatives Spanish Left Wing territory to pack their bags. Today, the first one who said "good-bye" was Hitler’s consul at Baicelona. MAD - 6 boarded a German warship, and steamed away. We aren't told where he is going, but it is supposed, to assume his duties as consul in some port held by Franco and his Fascists. Berlin is using all its influence to persuade Austria to join in recognizing the Spanish nationalists. They say Austria is likely to do so, and Hungary as well. Informed German circles ar ^ ^ this latest joint move by Hitler and Mussolini is an attempt to line up a whole series of nations in a combination against Communism - a direct stroke against Soviet Russia. There1s a protest to the League of Nations by the Madrid government — but that government.is not in the devastated capital. It is now in Valencia, to which it fled some time ago. The Left Wingers appeal to the League against the Itai^aa-German recognition of the Rebels. What the Geneva statesmen are likely to do is something to imagine, although it is hard to imagine nothing. -- . igx-uuin Ll. tly-—imto ■»* greatfewnrar^-^. Madrid: In a way this is an inaccurate date line MADRID But Madrid is the ajsxx accurate date line for this - two air raids. Scenes of dreadful havoc and spectacular sky fighting. Firsj a blast of borohing cane this morning. This one was accompanied by no sky fighting, only by the most frightful havoc. Bombs hit the Madrid post office building, wrecking it. One giant missile from the sky the tall building of the Royal Typewriter Company, and carried down five floors with its terrific impact. Five floors crashing down, one after another. as the bomb ©ssv through! i)ne of Madridfs beautiful palaces hitj and ruined. A bomb fiERXiKHXXixxi blew two street cars crowded with workers off the track. Another exploded in the subway, and refugees who had fled there for safety, were asphyxiated. A Madrid report states it was not a gas bomb. it merely spread the fumes of bursting high explosive. After that fearful devastation of the morning attack. Left^Wing planes took to the sky for an all-day patrol. Apparently, when they wait on the ground of the flying i..ld. ready for an instant take-off, they can't get into the swy MADRID - £ fast enough to meet the swift bombers. So now Madrid's fighting hornets, up-to-date speed planes, stayed in the sky, eireling hour after hour, on patrol, '^^^olose to the attaok '^ny Rebel bombing squadron that might come over. Did that daunt FrancoTs war flyers? Wot at all. This afternoon, out of the west they came, bombers escorted by pursuit ships. And the battle was on. The Left Wing sky patrol darted into action. More Madrid planes xose from the ground, and a furious dog fight was on. Iw Lliu'"nliiffa streams of machine gun bullets streaked from plane to plane. They dived and 1 1 zoomed, in wild gyrations, and from the ground three of the wing*ed battlers were seen to drop out and fall to earth. \ It 4s not known whether the victims were Rebel or Left Wing planes. tP The fighting on the ground continues - house to house. Franco^ men keep their grip on the northeast section of the city. Their advance is creeping along the street against bitter resistance. Perhaps the most vicious and deadly kind of battle house to house. SPE l l , 1 7 (*n>c BORNEO A few nights ago I told about a man knocking out a giant orang-utang — a crack aviator who did the flying for Martin Johnson. They are just back from Borneo, Martin, his co-explorer, Osa, who is also the missus — and Aviator Jim Laneri, from Hartford, Connecticut - well known test pilot. Jim has been telling me a tale of wings over the Borneo jungle an epic of what might have happened, but didn’t -- luckily. He and the Martin Johnsons made the first flight across Borneo which arfrug is almost the size of a continent. The authorities out there said — "donH do it I” didn't they, Jim? J.L.Yes, they said it was too dangerous. They told us that if we had a forced landing we might never get out. L.T.: I know, the jungle out that way is pretty thick. I’ve seen it in Malaya, dense, impenetrable. Just as bad in Borneo I suppose. BORNEO - 2 It sure is. Once while we were making motion pictures of wild animals along the Kinanbanglan River we had twenty-.five native laborers cut a short path through the jungle. It took them two weeks to clear the way fori a thousand feet. Yes* I know, Ifve seen tropical thicket like that* If you had a forced landing in it, youfd be in to stay, YouTd never cut your way through that almost solid wall of jungle. J.L,: The authorities told us tha't if we landed within even a few miles of a river, wefd never be able to push through to it. But we never had a forced landing. The motor never missed. --- L.T,; Quite an adventurous motion picture flight that you and Martin and Osa made across that vast island of Borneo. And you were telling me about the rivers you had to land on in your big amphibian, narrow, twisting streams. BOBJNBO - 3 J--—And the floating logs! They were the worst danger. The Borneo rivers are always muddy from the terrific rainfall. Th© logs are the same color as the muddy water and you can*t see them. And the rivers are full of them. We were always afraid of ramming one, landing or taking off. L.T.; Thanks, Jim — give my regards to Martin and Osa when you see them. And let me finish by telling about your biggest moment. How you were taking off when you suddenly i saw a huge mud-colored log right in front of the plane. And you had ^ust enough speed to jump over it. Not flying speed, just jumping speed - a great sky ship playing leap-frog with a log on a river in Borneo. WILD BOARS I Vl^vv) a v J There's no word of casualties among hunters in eastern Tennessee - although thirty-three of them'l^^out today alter a dangerous sort of game. There1s also no report of casualties among - the wild boars. The natives of those parts are shaking their heads skeptically, saying that the hunters will need good luck to get a shot at one of those savage pigs^and if they maybe it will belCard luck. Wild boars in the Cherokee National Forest date back some twenty-five years when some jkkKKdtk enthusiastic sports men of the east had a bright idea. They wanted some formidable sort of game to shoot at, so they imported a number of Russian wild boars and turned them loose. Formidable is right. From times antique, the wild boar has been celebrated as a perilous beast for the hunter, and the Russian variety is the most -gjr powerful and savage of his kind. I donft know how much fun the eastern sportsmen had those years ago, but the pack of fighting importated have multiplied in the Cherokee forest. ^ that they have now become a They are so numerousiat^^o^essa^v** ^ __ v\-£ -taMu? menaceK So the government has opened a hunting season on them mm WILD BOARS - 2 for fifteen days. They have no idea of exteminating the animals, so the hunters are allowed to shoot one head of game each - and they are not adtowsfr to use horses or dogs, A. \ That1® what makes the natives down there so skeptical. They say the wild boar is so wary and ctmning that the hunters will never get near one without dogs to track him down. And if they h do happen to get a shot at a boar - look out! Five hundred pounds of with sharp, slashing tusks - when he f3 wounded he charges with a wild fury. Only a most perfectly placed rifle bullet will stop him. However, as I remarked, no casualties are reported either among the hunter telephone Right nov/ the greatest telephone hook-up in history is in operation. Twenty-five thousand miles of lines.^are linked in 3- gigantic loop. Entertainment is going across those wires, speeches, music, skits, carried by telephone and loud speakers to gatherings in a hundred and sixty cities in every part of the Onited States and Canada. Why all this telephone activity? It's a celebration of the telephone pioneers of America, twenty-five thousand of them, men and women who have worked for the American Telephone Company for more than twenty-five years, and some of them for fifty years. This is their Twenty-Fifth Anniversary. So, telephone j&KmH on the giant -&Me! hoop-up of wire, the proper wirelegs greeting is hello^ The ancient Romans used to say - ,THail and Farewell!" A modern ! version might be XHxtizxxMt "Hellofand SO LONG UNTIL TOMORROW." A