u. r. . -~-- Well, the United N at ions deb te on t h disc losure of ailitary forces finally got ar~und to bras s tacks today - ato m ic tacks. The statesmen, a f ter talkin g for several days,about makin g reports on the sizes of th e ir armies, came around to w h a t they were thinking about a ll the time - the atomic bomb. Who mentioned the bomb? You guessed it - Molotov. I'\& should be---...-... ~ - mentione4 Jet propelled ••1pona, for example, and also included that telltale w ord - atomic. In other words, · llolotov finally got around to the question - bow many ato ■ lc boab1 ha1 Uncle Saa, and how fast tA,ll he produce them? thought this information should be g iven at once - no delay The t■•i• Americans and British immediately objected_ nothin g d oin g . A British delegate ex p lained - the Western powers are quite willing to g ive to the United Nations full information about the quantity of atomic bombs they have, and how fast they can produce the bombs. But - not until some real kind of diaaraent proposal has been adopted. In other words, we don't intend to reveal our big military aecret at thia atage of the gaae, when there's n o thing more subatantial than talk - and lots of it. IJISIEEI Bere:s a•••• dispatch that'ts hard to believe. Yet we have it on the autboritJ of the magazine IEWSWEEI. !t tells of a speech ■ ade by Elliott RooseTelt in Moscow - an address described as pro-Soviet. If the quotations as given by NEWSIIII be accur a te, then the Elliott Roosevelt harangue must also be described as -- anti- . American. 1f' ~ is described as talkiag at a reception given by a me ■ber of the staff of the A ■ericaD Eabassy at Moscow, a reception in honor of the Soviet Chief of Cultural Propaganda. IEISI E EI states that~• its and ~ta infor■ ant was present at the reception, that he quotes Elliott Roosevelt as followa: ~ is said to have ,, ,., declared that the Onited St a tes had no business meddling in the Danube area -- or, in the matter of Gibraltar. ~ the Soviets must have control of those hiatoSio straits. •They would, • quotes REWSWEEI, •be foolish to agree to internationalize unless the United States agrees to na ti anal ize the Pana■a Can al" •-•-!J ~~ The REWSIEEI story goes on: •Elliott also thought the Soviet Onion had never broken its wurd while the United States and Britain repeatedly violated their ple41ea. • f And we re told thtt Eliott Roosevelt en4e4 hi ■ discour s e with the following challenge to the •dience: •Can anyone he r e,• he deaam ed, •na ■e one in■ tance where the Onited States acted to further the . cause of peace?• •After a 11o ■entary bush,• goes on IEWSIEEI,•an Aaerican corr e spondent suggested -- had not the United States done everything to strengthen the power and presti1~ ot the United Hationa?• •But,• the account goes on, •Elliott was ready - - ~ for that an•! 'You know as well as I do,' he told the JDBJEZl - l questioner, 'that the United States is supporting the 0.1. for purely selfish and imperialistic reaaona.•• It seeas incredible, but ouch are chapter an4 Terse in the IEWSWEEI account of the Moscow apeech ••4• by th• saa of the late President Roosevelt. to the The State Department bas . ~ ~ Com m unist ~t. dlovernment /4- ~ s e n ~ ~ ~ not " 6t Rumania -- a note cbsrging that the recent elections hele in that country that we will refuse to r ecognize the newly chosen Ru~anian Govern ent. But we do say that we will refuse to recognize the s of the rec nt elections. Which• ~ ' • n f ci " ~ ,a W:ON 1w that negotiations have broken down A. between Italy and Jugo ■ levia. Thia - because of a demand aad1 bJ the government of Marshal Tito, a demand that tie Jugo1lava be give~ an important town called Monfalcone. Tito wants thia in r turn for an agreement to allow Trieste to be internationalized. Palestine had another bi t ter fight today_ aboard a ship. A nd a ain the trouble bro k e out when British troops boardei a refucee ship crowded with illegal immi · rants. So fierce was thE; resistance of Zionists ea g er to g et into Palestine, the soldiers baa to charge the deck four times - with club• and tears•• bomb1. One British soldier is rep~rted to have been drowned, one Jewish illegal immigrant killed. When, after a sava g e band-to-hand struggle, ibe troops got control of the refugee ship, they, found a sign painted on a wall. The sign read: •tarningl For e a ch Jew murdered or wounded aboard thie ahip, you will pay with lritish blood.w Signed, •commander-in-Chia J.ewiah Resistance.• Wll The seriousness of the crisis in India is indicate· by word from London that the Viceroy, Field Marshal Viscount Wave l l, h a s been invited to fly to London with five top Indian lea d ers - over the weekend. These leader• include Hindu s and Mohammedans, and it ia believed that one ot thea will be Jawaharlal Nehru, the Indian nstionaliet chieftain who i• at the bead of the pre■ ent interim government. Also - Uohammed·lli Jinnah, Preaidaa of the Moslem League. The trouble, of co~rae, ia the aavage cla■ h•• bet w een Hindus and Mohammedans, •ioting and bloodahe4, which baa been g o ing on for weeks. The disturbances have been so m urderous, that the British fear the interia governmen t may col la pse - the regime eet up as a careta k ~ affai to run things until a formal governme~t A ~ India can be esta~lis ~ ed.(A eeNH~n•t oi an independent ( •H1iN l J w, -el>amhbi ~•aot.-at--ln Betht N ileee■Ms. Congress h a s sub p oened Secretary of the Interior Irut to an•wer questi o ns aJ about the 'lig Inch-little _rncb oil pipel inea. $ This follow_. the appearance of an official /l of the Interior Department, who said the government baa bee considering an emergency operation of the pipelines, to bring oil and na t ural g as to th& ea s tern statea, as a way to ease the co a l shortage.~~...lre-=9"'i-. The Congressional Committee wanted to know •bl the government had failed to plan such emergency operation a few weeka •I ago - when the first thre a t of a coal mine strike appeared. TheJ wanted to ask Secretary lru& about that, and invited him to appear. He f a iled to show up - so this afternoon a subpoena wa s issued. Meanthi l e, in la hington there were ne• repetiti o ns of the g overn m ent'• intent i on to fight it out to a finish w ith John L . L e is - n d press the court case a g ains t the m i n e u n ion chi e f , w ho L to go on tr i a 1 IJlll~J · 2 t,oaorro, : . A t the s a m time, s--igns increa s ed that the Truman administr a tion m a y welcom e a way out - hoping that Lewis might get tog e ther w ith the mine owners and reach an a g reement with them - union and ope a tore settling thing• between thems . 1 es a nd leaving the gove r nment out. More an aore the question is a k ed - even if you send Lewi• to jail will tha t mine coal? Maybe Lewie could provide a wa7 out of the dile m ma by making a deal with the mine owners - and let the g overnment turn the coal pits looee. in st ADD §!RIKE -- In Bir m ingha m , Alabama, Irving s. Olds, Chairman of United Stat e s Steel, m a de a spe~ch toni ht at a dinner celebrating the dia m ond jubilee of the founding of Bir m ingha m , •the S teel City of the South.• Of course, he is prejudiced, as we all are to a leaser or g reater degree. Among other things be said: - 'It may sound trite to say that the public interest la par.amount. Still this nation, if it is to survive, must continue to be a nation oflaw and order, where neither one aan nor one group can be allowed to put selfish interests above the national welfare.• •Then be went on to refer directly to the coal strike, how it has •disrupted the national econo m y and may inflict irreparable injury on all of us.• And he concluded: - •The issues raised aust soon be disposed of in a sound, fair, and permanent way.• Even as he spoke, the steel mills in Birainghaa •ere shutting do w n, their coal stocks almost gone. And the wo r d ls that al l of Bir m ingha m 's mills will shut down in a few days. ADD STJj I~~ - 2 - In the est, at Denver, all seventy-six public schools have shut down for lack of coal. At Boulder, the Oniversity of Colorado announces that it will close its fall quarter on Saturday, two weeks earlier than usual. And the Colorado State College of Education--~ meaning Greeley I presume -- all classes suspended until further not ice. And the same news from a number of other cities in the West. All over Otah, the report is that county schools are shutting down. With the Governor or Nevada . urging the people to conserve coal -- for cold weather is CO'lling. In all this hubbub, the central figure ia, of courae ' that burly gentleman with the big eyebrows, deep rumblini ,oice, and an air of the ponderous and inscrutable. lhat sort of man is John L. Lewis? We know hi ■, of course, imperturbable as a dramatic figure, the bold an~aixcur~u~•Aplayer of tb ga■• at top atakea ~his m ine un , ion chief, who began in the coal . its, haa alao a formidable reputation for literary acbolarship. Of all public figures at thi■ aoment, John L. Lewis, in his grave and sentenMou■ utterances, uaea juat about the moat classical brand at literary English, second to Winston Churchill. TheJ say he gets his style fro• the Bible and Shakespeare, but I rather think he has modelled himself on classical Engliah of the Eighteenth Century - with more than a side glance at Gibbon.~! remember at the time of the previous coal •ine Erisia, last Sprin g , he let out a tirade at a group of manufacturers, a haran g ue that, to my ear, could • 1,111§_- 2 have been put be f ore a ccllege class in Engliah aa a aodel of th t rhetorical method called_ ••*•**•••*■JX antithesis, the bal a ncing of opposites in rolling eentencea.faf cour s e, Lewis k nows a lot more than ■erely literature - coal mining, for example. All sorta of ainlng in fact. A few weeks ago in Washington, I hap p ened to encounter hia at dinner with a mutual friend, and •e sat down for a chat. Talking to the big mine union chief, I couldn't help thinking back to the day• ~~~ when I myself was e-:W:vtdf a miner~}! stlli telili I * ~ jldr in a Colorado gold mine. So I ■ poke with Leti• about labor figures of those turbulent daya in the gold mines. Be knew them all, and had interesting things to say about minin camp characters who were a legend when I l,l!lL-J Evening Post w h i c h ~ ied my impression of John L, Lewis no little - ~ an anecdote 1n a labor column b7 I Victor RTesel. The abor coluanist aata ~ question •Bow does Lewia operate in a typical coal crisis?• And Victor Riesel answers: •tell, he doesn't apend all his time posin in lonely hotel lobbies or reading Greek classics, as he would have the world beli•••• That'• a gag he has been pulling on the public tor yeara.• To which Riesel adds an anecdote to illuatr~te. •Beck in the 'Twentiea, when he was bucking Calvin Coolidge during a similar uproar,• writes the labor columniat, •Lewis rushed to Washington b7 train one day. Reporters finally found him alone in his seat. And, instea of discovering him pouring over legal paper■ an d statistics, he was calmly reading I. S1akespeare'• •Richard the Third.• 1b•Qxlwww•utzx~~hutaxtx Ib a the reporter• J,1111 ::. ~ ... ~ I didn't k now,fl i ■ st c o nc l udes, •wa s that Lewi ■ had alre ad y made a deal with the govern m ent.• Ro, he doesn't spend all his time readin1 Shakespeare! In Hollan d , a professor of psychology has gone to an old Dutch town on the Zuider Zee, to investigate one of the strangest atori sever told - a story concernin& music, the Composer Beethoven. It is related that a cou p le of days ago, the I conductor of• town orchestra called his fifty musician• A for a rehearsal of a Beethoven composition. Thia was an oroheatration, aade by the town con~uctor, of the Beethoven anthem, e - a ~ •The Honor of God is Reflected in Rature.• 71rhe musicians played, the conductor beatin1 the time fervently. of the music, be raised hia baton for· a crashing chord - and then stood as if tranafixea, staring at ti:f?u~1c. Bis orchestra players were amazed. A They crowded around the c o nductor, •*••i who stood like a statue lookin g down at the score. And on the pa e the auaici ns s aw dar k s p ot hich was s p reading out - U!TIQJEI - 2 in the s hap e s of a . icture of Bee t h o ven's face. Th at was the en d of the rehe ar s a l. The musici a n• went home - the conductor hasn't emerged ever since. The story spr e d , as p eople we re aatounded, impressed. A United Pre s s corre s pond nt r porta that he baa the gone to the t o wn on~Zuider Zee, and has seen the strange phPnomenon. Hes ys that on the page of the orchestra score th e r e is a sort of bloteh that is easily recognized as a po trait of B~ethoven - and now a profeasor of ~~ psycholo g y has g on e to make his own study ot ~~• , . . . . , story in the w orld of ■ai ■ uaic. From • ra s bin g ton toni g ht we he a r more about that expedition t t e Antarctic, how the Navy plans to fly twin-engine tr a nspo r t plane s off the deck of an aircraft carrier -- plane s the size o ~ co mercial air liners -- which sounds like C-47's. This to be the first time in aviation history for l~nd-based air tran s port planes to take off from a carrier. Although that great Army flier, Jimmy Doolittle, did it easily with big twin-engine bombers when ne P.nd hi• men left the deck of !h~ Hor!!!! to bomb Tokio. t ell, w e hear that six transport planes will be taken to a point a hun rgd iles or so from Little America. There fro m the d eck of the twenty-seven thousand ton a i r c raft c arr i e r , p h .i!.i.IUU!!!! S !.! , w it h the as s i a tan c e of 'jato-jet" pow e r bottles fastened to their wings, they'll take off -- fo r t h e Antarctic ice shell where they'll land at Li t.t le A nerica. An o t he urprise for t h e penguins who oughtn't be surpri sed a t a n ythin g by now. ~ ~ - ~ ~ 4 ~ ~ ~ ' c } - t ' M - ? lil,EI T e E . Ch • n m e r of e p utie s hi aft no o n g a VO e of con e C 0 e ie r Ism i l i y sh a, wh ·c h a 0 0 r on to vi a e nt io in in iro o y • Th ~ o e of ,., n f i en c e s on th ubject of a tre ty b tw en Egy _ t nd Great Britain, a pact for the ithdr awal f Briti s h tro op s from Egypt. V i • a under t o d that the tr at y h as t o m ain clause - one ·1 hich p rovide for a British withdrawal from Egypt in t w nty-s e ven m onths . The o iher clause concerns rnte be wheth · - the Su t dan, the treaty proposal being that a a l . n a mo n th p o p 1 e of the S u p d en , to de c id e r n o t th t ~ Afri c a ~ " ' be "- /' J given to igy pt. n ul r a -na ional f~ct·on in h and of the pyrami s op o oses the tre , deman r ing tha t the British m ke complete evac ation at once, th t he S ufd an b e turned ove it ou any plebiscite. An d it wa. these ve ultra-n a ionalis s toda who ·ere d o ing th rioting. Th di turb a nce too h e form of mobs i h torches, the riotous crowd set ing fire to thins. They set buil d i s aflame, and burned buses and street cars. Cairo tod a y ltft9 h av ing a fear ome sort of thing - arson riots. At S a so a ' F lo i a , t h e l a u h i s o n th e fu nn y m a n. Be rid to e t a tre as ur e insur e d, e n he com pa ny s a i d - " Vie 'll in u re h a t for a maximum of one d olla .• I re a l ~ y is a tr a ur e , a c cor d ing to Emmett elly, h clo n - co m ic hobo star o f the Ringling Brothers-Ba r num an Bailey Circus. It's his wardrobe, which features a ta teed, ra g ged tuxedo, battered derby, and a clothespin for a tie - clasp. It doesn't sound so expensiv e ly stylish - but Emmett Kelly remembers the time when a top tailiring establishment in Rew York was unable to duplic te the exquisite ra -bag e feet o f ~ tux do, --:-!£ the master clown h a to buy a brand new tux, and have o ld Modoc, the ele hant, trample on it in a p ile of d irt. As for the d rby, i t 's a kelly h icb on l y t 1 a he cl o bespin tie-clasp i~ . e y . a n p ro u e - n 1 real y a em. T h e h o bo of th c ircus h a s si ned u for an enga eme nt in ond n , and h e wanted to inure the treasured drobe a g ain st fire whi l e n ou te. Today's news te _ l h 0w th in uranc e represent ti ve took a look dl-- tk ~ ~ ~ an d s i · i th a snort: "That's nothing but a p ile of old ra s , and I wouldn't in s ure it for mor e than a dolle.r.• What makes the clown really scream ith an g uish is the mater of premium. •Here's the pay-off ,• he yell ■• •one d o l lar is 1 1 th e insurance they'll g iv e me, and the ■ azi ■ a■ xJZ ■■ minimum p remium for a fire insurance policy is t w o dollars." ell, w s e rious people h a ve the joke so often on us, th a i t's a p leasure whe n the l augh is on the funny ma n.