OIIEVA /._[-~ T ~ , ~ t'f-S'r/, In Geneva - the toughest talk . of thla conference. Three hours or blunt declarations- by the foreign mln1stera. ~ Oro111ko - starting it. ~peatlng h1a demand - / I independent status tor East Germany. Retorting tor the Veat - q France 1 1 Couve de Nurvllle. Who warned Gromyko~ Soviet pollcJ might drJ.ve the German people to despair. And that WO\lld leave Europe racing - another dlaaater. Couve de Nurv1lle, repeatlni that there 11 only one solution to thil crlaia - created bJ the Soviet Union. The aolution - tree elections tor all or Oerrarr,/ " SelAyn Lloyd and Chrlatian Herter - strongly aupportlng the Prench poa1t1on. Herter, letting Ol'OIQko ""'-~ he 11 Jeopardizing the aUllllllt conterence that Khr111hche• want■ 10 badly. Herter, declaring tlatly - that Prealdent llaenhowr will not go to any meeting with Khruahchev, u long aa the Soviet ultimatum on Berlin atlll atanda. AT<IIIC ?r~(-..~.,.;/{ ~ r 1 v a t e conference between Herter and ~ " ' { ~ ~ " Gromyko A. lnconcluaive. Subject - a poaa1ble ban on atolllc explosions. Gromyko, retuaing to d1acuas President Elaenhowr' • , ft ~ proposal for - a tool proof inspection syat•. The Soviet Foreign Minlater did expreaa aoae lntereat 1n "high altitude teats" ._)!ut weatern obaervera believe - Groayko 11 only > aearchlng for 1ntormat1on - about our "Argus" experi•nt. ~ A'fi'oae nuclear devlcea we touched otf last fall - 11101'9 than thirty mllea up. lf a suaait conference does take p lace this summer - it won't be inside the United States. That becaae clear ~day - following D eYaulle'a announceaent. The P resident of France, inaisting he won't attend a suaait conference outside Europe. ln this DeGaull• 11 supported bf West Germany. Also iritain - goiag along. Although the~ritieh doa' t see ■ to care where the heads ot goTernaent g•t together. At any rate it now ap p ear• that I hrua heh•• • i 11 not b • pa, i ag us t hi vi at. - he' • been taltiag ao much about. The Senate Commerce Committee h as finally okayed Lewis Strauss. ln a squeaker. By one vote. dine to eight. · rhree De11ocrats joined the six Republicans in sup orting ~trausa £or Secretary or Coaaerce. The three Democrats approving President Eisenhower's nomination:- P astore of ihode ~eland, Thurman of ~outh ~arolina, aa4 Lausche of Ohio. The eight •nos• cast by the rest of the Deaocrats on the committee. Now, this hassle goes to the floor of the Senate, where op , onents, brillant and able op p onents of Strause p redict he' 11 be rejected by the full Senate. Dut those for hi ■ say - not so. That Strauss is sure to be our next Secretary of Commerce. Today we also hear that Defense ~ecretary cElroy will stay on - not resign. Ne il c E lroy so announcing afta- a conference with P resident Eisenhower at the White Aouse. The tall, g enial, exceedingly able former head of roctor and Gaable had hoped to return to p rivate life this fall. But the resident wants h i• to stay on, now that Quarles, is dead. tle of course has been succeeded by another im p ressive cabinet officer, To■ Gates. The medical re p ort on John foster D ulles? - Still most pessimistic. The State De p artment, saying - "Yr. Dulles continues to grow weaker.• Our foraer Secretary of State - now in a coma. His family - has gathered in Washington. hospital. rs. Dulles - spending all her tiae at the There is late word from Central Asia - from beyond K yber Pa ss th~ Russian technici a ns are busy building air fields a nd military rOliis in Afghanistan. Jet b a es - alon the Afghan - oviet border - in the ~iver Oxus rea. Afghan ilots to fly the jets ar• already returning home from Soviet training centers - returning to Kabul. The point is, of course - th t froa Afghan bases, jet bombers will be able to fly guickly to lndia, Pakistan, - and !ran. Good news regarding the Truman family. Mrs. Truman's operation, a success. She is ex J eoted to have a full recovery. Jeanwbile her lovely dau hter, Uargaret, ~rs. Clifton Daniel - has resented Bess and Harry S. Truman wi~ a second grandson - just as the for■ er resident had predicted! There ia late word from Central Asia - from beyond Kh yber ?a ss th& Russian technicians are busy building air fields and military rolls in Afghanistan. Jet ba s es - alon g the Afghan - S oviet border - in the Biver Oxus a rea. Afghan p ilots to fly the jets ate alread7 returning home from Soviet training centers - returning to Kabul. The p oint is, of course - th a t fro ■ Afghan bases, jet bombers will be ~ble to fly guickly to lndia, P akistan, - and !ran. CUBA <4-wt:.:d..:,.... ~ ~fswJ- Fidel Castro's new agrarian law~ affects every sugar mill in Cuba. The law, forbidding Cubans connected with - - - the sugar mills to farm sugar cane at the - same time. The idea or the law - to prevent mill owners from exploiting farm labor. ~'"' -.J!>n•Cubana - C0118 under the law"~ered to sell - their sugar cane land.~11 within a year - or · race .) expropriation by the Havana govem•nt. One quick result of Caatro 1 a agrarian policy - le11 capital flowing into the island. Foreigners, not 10 anxioua to invest their money - 1n Cuban supr. SEAWAY Today the first tourist ship - made the run through - the St. Lawrence Seaway. The "Stella Marla" - with sixty four paaaengera aboard. She left ID Montreal on Saturday - aalllng ap atw■■ through the new channel - arriving at Toronto today. The "Stella Marla" - first of what soon will be a fleet~ ~ ~ ~~ cbing 1ight1eer1 thro~ - the J t . La11N11111 Seaway. A dispatch from Geneva states - there is one cate where all the Russians go - for a drink at least once. The Landolt Cafe. ~hat mak9 s it so s~e cial - for Soviet vieitors? Just this. The andolt ~afe is where henln sent a lot of time during his exile. You may recall tha. the original Bolshevik made hie home in Geneva b~fore the revolution. Often surrounded by fellow conspirators, talking over p lans tor overthro•i• the Tsar. Often thf met at the ~andolt ~afe. A Swiss pub tbll, is now a sort of Soviet shrine. The19 used to be a table there with Lenin's initials on it. So t · heyay. Une day, he d idn't abow up - a nd the waiters never saw him again. The world's firat Bolshevik - had sto p p ed p lanning revolution. Be was heading for ~ussia. Some old-timers in Geneva say they can remember when Lenin was a steady customer at the Landolt ~afe. Don, can't you just see ~enin, sittin g there at that table, brooding a nd · lotting? The ot h er ni g ht we b ad a ~ory a b o ut - h a d hun t era in the P hili p ines. Toni ht - it s c a nnibal s in N ew G uinea. rimitive savages - who live deep i in the almost im p enetrable jungles of that vast isl a nd oft northern Australia, across Torres Strait. Where •e1 still dine on their neighbors - now and then. A little over a year. ago on a United iotors - Delco TV ex p edition we visited Cannibal country in riew Guinea where one tribe had eaten some thirty of their neighbors. The Australians have tried to stamp out cannibalis ■. Hut - that's not so easy. At any rate an item has juat come in from••• Guinea tellin g about raiders ca turing and feasting on a ne i ghboring chief! T h is, we found, was g ener a lly a ceremonial t h ing. ot a ar t of the regul ar menu! But l c a n still see t h ose New U uinea cannib a ls lookin g me over.