L.7. P,& Q. IIDl~SDAY 1 OCTOBER 13 1 1948. GOOD EVEIIIG EVERYBODY: Here's soae illumination on that world l■portaa aystery - ha•• the So•ieta deYeloped the atoaic boab? This insight coaea froa General Lealie R. Uro•••• who was the Army Director of the ato ■ boab project darin1 the war. General Gro••• point• la partic•lar to tbe ••1 the So•ieta han4le the ha ■ an factor in the ia4aatr1, aai teohnolo11 and aclence. lf you ■ ate a aiatate, yoa ■a1 fin4 7oaraelf in a ~iberian ala•e labor ca■p - or fao1D1 an execution aqaa4. Which la no way to ran an ato■ •o•• project. The General tells of an incident durin& th~••• labor in de•elopina the boab. Th• plant at Hanford, laahington waa asaianed to make a Tital coaponent for the ato■ ic boab. Thia, at firat, was a success, and ••er7)04 was jubilant. But then the Sanford thing went wron1. of a sudden, it failed to wort - for aoae unknown reaaoa. the failure was a bad blow, and the beads of the project were stunned. LIAD -2 -- General Groyea reaark1 that, if he had been ia ~oYiet Rusaia, he would haTe to fiaur• out bow to aYoid conaequenoea, who ■ should he accuse, and brin1 ap tor puniahaent? Soaebody would go to alaYe labor or exeoutlo But thi• waa in the rtal• of A■ erican aoleaoe, and ao th• General i11ued a pereaptor7 oT4er, oae of the f•• he 1a•• durla& t,• entire project - bartiaa lite•• Ara7 Gener.al. Be sent word to all the other braaoh•• of the project, torbiddlna th•• to oouanioate with Bufor4. the rea1on · wa1 - that he did ' not want lnquirJ, coaaeat and coaplaut to bit the Sanford 1cienti1t1, an4 diaooara1e th••· Let th•• alone to fia•r• thin&• oat th••••l•••• and find oat what wa1 wrona. WhMl th•J proceeded to do. Tb•J worked out the aolutloa, bit apoa the ri&ht idea. Thin&• aot 1oln1 1uccea1full7 at ianforl aaain - ud th• boab wa• on it• way. Aa a coapanloa piece 1D that, we come to the subject of lapitza. lt ia on• of the aysterle1 of the atoaic real• - what has become of Kapitza? ~roa General GroTea we have a• much of an answer as can be &iYen. Peter Kapitza was the number one atoaic scientist of Russia. Bia eminence date• back before Russian k••olution. In tngland, Caabrid&e, Iapitsa worked with Lord Hutherford, the areat phyalciat who ao ■ach to create atoaic science. After the Bol•h••lt Re•olution, he stayed on in ln&lan4, doing ato ■ ic research at Caabrid&• - antll h• was per1aaded to trip baot to Raaaia. There h• atayed - co•l4a't The So•l•t• needed a aoientiat llt• laplt••• General Oro••• ••1• that when th• A■erioaa atoalo boab bar1t apon the hori1oa ot wa1 a1ai1n•4 b7 Stalin to d•••lop the atoaio boab for the So•iet1. fro■ tl■e to ti■•, A■erioan 1oienti1t1 heard fro• hi■, heard aboat bi■ - th• ~o•i•t bo ■b 0 bailder. But, there wa1 a peculiar twiater in the buain•••· General Gro•e• refer• back to reaark• ■ad• A■erican scienti•t• seYeral years ago, when ao ■e said that Russia would duplicate the atoaic boab in a aatter of aonths. lhich is true so far as theory went, but loose talking in the aatter · of actually producin1 bo■bs would appear, howeYer, that the ~talin dictatorship toot the statement at face Yalu• - an4 it waa up to Iapit1a. lhe last heard of hl■ ••• aboat a 7ear a10. Op to that tia• there bad been fr•q•••t word a~oat bla - and he had oorreaponded with feilow aoieatiata. audden aileaoe. le•••••• to •aaiah. Appareatl7 \be n• ■ber one ~a••l•n ato ■io aolentlat faile4 to pniaee ~oaba in the allotted perioi of ti■• - ••• the Bo•l•I• b••• their o•• ••1 of aealln1 with lap••• lite tu\. lhloh, •• aeaeral Gro••• re■arta, la ao ••1 to ••tl• an atoaic 'boab. The charge that the Coaaanist partiea iD various nationa are fifth C oluane under iron diacipllnt and So•iet doainance, ia illu1trated YiYidly by a bit of history related in a book Juat oat. ~alled •rel IBOLI or tBE!k LiVES,• it 1• a hi1tor7 of \he A■ericaa Ooa■uniat Party. The author la BeaJaain Gltlow, wio raa for Vtoe-Pre114eat three tla•• on the Uoaaaai1t ticket, nod ••r••4 ••~•ral 7eara in priaoa for bia le4 aoti•itl••· Be broke with Co ■•••l•• the ti■• wbea tb• Aaerloan Uo ■aanl1t Party••• beina broaaht ooapletelr, under the control of the ~talin dictatorahip. The P•&•• of the book that appl7 to tbe new■ toda7 tell a story about wbiob ■any of ua ha•• been oarioa• for yeara. Bow did the Aaerioan ~oaaunlat Part, take the ne•• of the . Bitler-Stalin pact which 1•4 to tbt Seoon4 lorld lar? le know that our doaestic ~•4• were utterly aurpriaed, and n•••r guessed what was co■ in&. so what was their i■aediate reaction? the aoat draaatio angle is this -- h•• did the Jewish ~o ■■ani1t1 take the tie-up with Sitler? !U~LO CRlSIS -2 The first cne to rta4 the•••• oft the tioker was Paal NoYik, editor of the JEllSB DAlLr } ' ktlBEIT, \ie J1wi1b Coaaaniat newapaper. Bt cra■ple4 up the . tioter 1heet in an1er and aaid it was a Tile bour1oiae triot. ~•ad1 of perapiration gathered on his forehead. Bat the editor aoon touad oat it wa1 trae u4 raahe4 to the editorial ottioe• of tbe DAIL? IOllU li tbe aaae baildlq. There a paaic wa• oa. aea or4•r• aa1la1: ••• will be ■ ob••• b7 tbe worker,.• It waa ••••ral da7a before tbe7 bea tna Moaoow. Qitlo• tell• ho• a Co■■aaiat leader la tbe aaraeat oenter oaae raablng in, edai ■ln11 •the workeN are aakia1 a reYolution a1ainat ua. What haa Stall.a 4one to us?• Tb• Coaaaaiat Part7 then ha4 aboat one b•• dred thousand ae ■bera, and fifteen thoa1and qait. At the OAlLY 108111, six •••b•r• of th• ataft reai1•••• The top leaderahip stood fir■• Then the official part7 line caae fro• Moscow, commanding adberanoe to the Bitler-Stalin pact. A •••tin& was called. •111 the Jewish leaders of the Party,• relates Gitlow, •were roLLQI CRlSlS -3 called for a aecret special aeeting. Willia•~. ¥oater, Chairaan of the Coaaunilt Part7, presented the new llae. Th• tension,• Gitlow 10•• on, •had the Jewiah lea4era 11ue4 to their aeat1. 11an7 showed the • •train of area\ ••ntal and apiritaal aaitatloa. The7 were tora ,etw••• two lo7altlea -- lo7alt7 to their people, who were innocent vlctlaa of la11 anti-Seaitio bestiallt7, aa4 lo7alt7 to Coaauni•••• •roster 1••• the ■ no ti•• to tblat,• ea1• Gltlow, •he poun4e4 at th•• with blo•• that •t•••••• A reaolutlon endo••ia& the So•i•t-laai paot waa pr•••nted for adoption. Foater inaiate4 upon an i•••41ate Tote.• Gltlow adda that aoae Jewiah 1ea4era .... contia••d to expr••• their 4oubta about the tie-up wit~ the jasia. But it••• no 1004. •roster,• sa7a Gltlow, •suamed up with tbe full wei1ht of Stalin, the SoYiet Onion, the Coaintern, and th• Party -- and bludgeoned Jewa into coaplet• aub■ iaaion.• So they voted in faYor of the endoreaeaent of roLLOI CRISIS_, a Bitler-Stalin paot -- the mo ■ t draaa\lo po ■ aibl• ezaapl• of the diacipline of the Aaerioan Uouaaia\ Party under the doaination of SoTiet Ruaaia. At Paaadena, C alifornia, a wealth1 aan diel toda7 - aa the rich, as well as the poor, haYe a •al of doing. T he story lies in the fact that ~aauel ij. Bln4• ended with a fortune. Be waa born with one, th• •on of the PreaYeal of the United State• Pla7in1 Uar4 Coapan7, and•• inoreaaea hi• poa1eaalone in the career of a 1aoo•••f• lawyer.Be played a lara• part la aoolety an4 la P••lto benefaction• - he••• a foan4er of the Paaa4ena Coaaanlt7 Pla7hoa••• de41oate4 to the a4Yano•••t of tile art of draaa. A 4iatinaulahe4 citiaen in4ee4, bat utter d i1aater caae in the Stock · Market crash in tlintteen T went.7-Mine. Bin4• loat eYer7thin1, left penall••• at fift7-foar. The only thing he 001114 thi* of Wal t.11• Pasadena Coaaanit7 Pia7ho11••• Be went to that institution of th• draaa, which he had helped to foua4, and got a job - aa an actor. jCTOB -2 Be appeared in pla71, and the next thin& 70a know he was in the aoYiea -- a character actor. lronioally, hie first job in the til ■ 1 ••• in the called - •It I Bad a Killion.• lell, he had hal a aillion, and knew bow to pla7 the part. The ex- aillloaaire •a• perfect in the role of a ■an of area\ ••al\h. ~. ••at on to becoae one of tbe lealla1 charaoter aotor• of Boll7woo4, pla7ta1 the bia baaln•••■aa, tbe a4■iral, the 1•••ral, the jali•• Iii earnla1• ••at up to twel•• haalre4 an4 flft1 loll•••• •••k. After bein1 rioh and th•• poor, h• aote4 weal\ and then had a tort•n• all o••r a1aln. t!tll!!! Preeident Tru ■ an ia in Minne1ota - where he ia ■ akin& an especial target of ~enator Ball. T he ~,na\or i• a ■e ■ber of the Labor Com ■ lttee whioh drafte4 the Taft-Bartle7 Labor Law - and the Preal4ent-oan414ate concentratln1 on that. The Tra ■an ca ■pai1a trala will followed in linne1ota b7 the D•••1 apeoial Go•eraor 1apportin1 ~,aator Ball, althoaah the tieaa\o• d•••rtei lh• »•••1 tlotet in ineteen rort7-fo•r aa4 1apporte4 th• foarth ter■ of Preai4eat fraakliD D. &oo••••lt. Governor uewey had lunch with his in-lawa today. ~ampaigning through Oklahoma, he atopped off at 8apulpa, the home town of Mrs. ¥ranees Dewey. There the local folks were out to aeet them, and they went to the hoae of Mr. and Mrs. u. 1. Butt, Mrs. Dewe7'1·parente, a pleasant cottage, with a big iron wash boiler in the • backyard, and a garage with a Kiueteen Twenty-nine Cadillac. The father-iD-law of the Republican candidate is a retired railroad brakeman, living in the coatort of a small town -- after long yea.a of hard work. Governor ilewey told the home folks of the Missus that he knew a lot about ~apulpa, because, said he, •1•ve been married to ~apulpa for twenty and a halt years.• Be called Oklahoma -- •bis state-in-law.• Well, a lot of us have in-laws and, if the Missue comes from a state other than our own, I suppose•• would have "a state-in-law." CRISIS - In Paris, the effort of the small nations baa failed. Under the leadership of the President of the General Assembly, Bramuglia of Argentina, they tried to work out a compromise between the estern pow e r• and ~oviet tt uaaia. Their suggestion was that Uo1cow call the hun g er blockade of Berlin, in return b7 the lestern powers. t he conoeaaion - a four power aeeting of the Foreign Ministers to negotiate on Ger■u aa a they whole, eTerr phase) The lestern power, •n&&••t•4 would do this, and the s ■ aller powers propoaed i\ a coapro ■ iae, whioh the7 hoped Moaoow would aooep\. Today they got their answer -- 10. Asae ■bl7 President Braauglia bad a long conYersation with ~o•ie\ Uelegate Vishinsk7. They talked for an hour, and the ~oviet rejection took this for■. Vishinsk7 reaponded with a count~r-propoaal - that · oacow will negotiate oa the Berlin blockade, if the Western powers drop their appeal to the 0nitad Nations. W hich, in other worda, wou l d mean going back to the situation as it existed before the lest brought the blockade before the Onited ationa. T his was immediately rejected by the estern p owers, which are going ahead with their deaand for a showdown. T hia showdown bad been delayed, while the smaller nations were aaking their effort. bo now the proc e edings in t he Security Council •ill go on toward a Tote - a decision on the Western charge that the Ber.lb blockade ia a threat to the peace of the world. All of which was accoapanied today b7 excoriation of Red aggression. ibe speaker waa Sir Hartley shaworoaa, who cited Yariou1 angle• of the aenaoe of Red tyrann7, and emphasized the followina: •The army of fift~ coluan Communist Partie6 all oYer the under the effectiYe and close control of Koecow,• said h e, •are attempting to sabotage econoaic recoYery and to create political instability and chaos." ALLACE The Supreme Court of the Dnited State• i i going to pass on the question of whether the Benr7 Wallace ProgreaaiYe Party shall be giYen a place oD the election ballot in Illinois. This follows a refu1al bJ the Illinois state Electoral Board to put the lallaoe ticket on the ballot, a deciaion whiob tb• allaoe people denounced as unconstitutional - and the7 appealed to the high tribunal in Wasbin1ton, and no• the Court annouDoea there will be a hearing held on londa7.