The truce talks in Korea look s if they might be 6 oing th e way of those former n gotiattons, which dragged out and ended nowhere. Tod ay, our chief negoti ator , ~ ~ ; r r i s o n , charged the Reds wlth stalling - the &111118 aa they stalled through previous, futile amist1ce talks. He - ~ warned that we wo~'t go on la empty palaver. The Reds using it as - propaganda. $ The deadlock still centers around t~queatton ot - a neutral nation to take charge of prisoners-of-war who retuae to go home. The. Reds rejecting SWitzerland, am then Sweden. Demanding - an As1Atic nation. They suggested one of four - India, Pakistan, Burma, Indonesia. Today our negotiator• replied - all right, Pakistan. But the Reda wouldn't accept that - even though they themselves had named Pakistan as a possibility. ~The_/ Whereupon General Harrison told them - ~time in these discussions is fast running out. Are you prepared to accept Pakistan as a neutral nation? If not, we have nothing TRUCE TALKS - 2 f urther to discuss w ith you. They still kept o n stalling, and asked for a receaa J until tomorrow morning. One supposition is tha t , on the subject or Pakistan, the Red negotiators want enough time to consult headquarter• - h1gher-up r in China, or even Moscow. But there's another guess - that they're using the truce talks as a blind, ' qJeting things down, while theylpush 1n another direction - ~ . like Indo-China. Arousing hope for an armistice in Korea - while striking elsewhere. INDO-CHINA News from Indo-µ,hina has a new threatening sound. The Reds, invading Laos, the kingdom of a million elephants• k.(rW are~eering away from the capital city of Luang Prabang. Defending forces of the French Union have massed t that fortress, and seem to be strong enough to beat off the C0111Unl1 invaders. -~~- So these are making a detour, pushing toward the tOllll )\ or Paksane. The importance is - that Pakaane 1a on the border of Siam, the land of the white elephant. Which may ahape 11p u the next obJect1ve~ the Reda. Reports have been , . , . . la that there ~Y be a C0111Duniat attempt to take over in Stu - aided by a Siamese fifth column. Anyway, the news would indicate that the invadera are pushing through the kingdom or a million elephants, bound for the land of the white elephant. CZECHOSI.DVAKIA The amnesty proclaimed in Red Czechoslovakia doe• - not include political prisoners - and that would seem to exclude the chance that illiam Oatis will be released. The American newspapennan in a Red prison - corwicted ot what is called a "trumped-up~ charge or espionage. The new Malenkov regime in Moscow decreed an &a'le■ty in Russia, liberating prisoners, and Soviet aatelllNI are following suit. But, in Red Czechoslovakia, the amne1tr amounced today specifically excludes political prlaonera. The jaila are filled with pol1t1cals - so the decree would •••• to be a mockery. MAU MAU grif.41 From Kenya, in Est A frica, another/~, r~port of terrorism by the Ma 1 Mau. They besieged a village, where the native Home Guard had estalished e strong point. The garrison of nineteen Home Guards fought to the last Mn, last cartridge of annun1t1on - everyone kill :: e .: d =- · - - - - - - Meanwhile, the authorities at Nairobi say that me~;::1,. mend of the Mau Mau have begun to confess - ' wholesale. Defying - the blood oath they had to take. Untll - recenttYx 8 ~NfBied to talk, in deadly rear of the venpanoe ot the tribal terrorists. Preserving what the authorlttea "- call a - "wall of silence." But now they~ giving evldenoe - ~ renegir:!&~ as many as tive thouaand;1n••,:on the "bJ.ood oath", and telling Mau Mau secrets, naming members, the leaders. Prominent among the informers are tribal girls - who were abducted frcn their villages and forced to live as ..... ~~ fugitives 91# the bush, along with Mau Mau terrorists, pursued " by the police. When the going · gets too hot, the girls are " abandone~by the fleeing Mau Mau now they_k_re talking. 'lhe police pick them up, and A late dispatch fro ■ Argentina, etatea that police ha•• unco•ered a •terroriat organi1ation.• Coaauniat? lot at all. They aay it waa operate4 , , eleaenta of the Araentina Con1ervati•• Parti•• - oppoae to Stron& Ian Peron. Thi• follow• a aeri•• of boabin&• iD Bueaoa Air••• Today two ••n ••r• arreated, cbara•d witb placin& a boab in tbe autoaobile of Peron•• roreiaa lini1ter. That••• followed by police raid•~ ... _ · . i~ araenal of a•••__,, aaid to have been ••lied. &11 • oonDected with that Conaer•ati•• •terroriat or1a■ l1.U. DEFENSE Word from Washington is that President Eisenhower will cut military spending, the next fiscal year, to the tune of two billion, one hundred million dollars. Previously, we heard that the Administration \! ould slash the Truman military budget by five billion. There's no contradiction in this. Prea1d nt E1senh0"er will ask Congress for five billion dollars less, and will use money left over from J9 previoua fll D £ i. I I I • •All■ t lit ) Jd TR Ill l 1 F••lcl I .1 The Washington word ts tha . t there '11 be a cut in the number o m n the armed services - a cut of nearly ,••v11MHN,O:,C . . . . . 11AlRIUf QNIZli,lt,JIIQl7aillPIIIIIJr , a re (._ Already, the draft callsAfor a lower figure. For June, thirty-two thousand to be H inducted - as compared with fifty-three thousand for the previous months of this year. SHIPS A Senate Conanittee, today, was told - of one hundred and ninety-three ships 1rad1ng with Red China. Ships under the flags of Western allies - making as many as six hundred YOJ8&91 to Chinese •inland ports last year. So stated by a Se~te investigator, who added that eighty-two of the vessels were owned by firms that carried cargoes for the united States goverrnent. Co•1ttee Chainnan Senator MoCarthy ot Wtaoo~tn denounced this, and governaent officials agreed with ht.Ii. They eatd ..... ~wet. ahauld etop do1116 bu1lne1e with " shipping flnas that trade wt th Iron Curtain oountrlea, 111• ADD SHIPS Du, later, two Administration officials stated - it ts not the policy or the goverment to cut off all Allied trade with R , d China. Kenneth Hansen of Mutual Security, and John Leddy of the State Department, said that 80118 trade with China might be Justified, if we get saaething more Y&.111&.ble 1n - - - - return. Whereupon Senator McCarthy said - he wanted to lmalf if this represented the policy of the State Department. He broke up the hearing - peming an inquLry with the Seoretary of ~tate, John Foster Dulles. YllQI§ In la1bington, an aar••••nt between the A.r.ot and the c.1.0. - which 11 · aarded a1 a 1tep towar4 a unification of the twe areat labor or1ani1a~lon. Tb• aar••••nt, aade between A.f.of L. P~••14ent Geor1• lean7 and C.I.O. President lalter Reuther - propo••• a pact whereb7 tbe two labor aroup• would atop rai4iq each otber. That i1, on• tr7in1 to a•t coatrol of Che r otber factory uaioa1 froat. . . . . ••• Tbi1 practice of I •rai41na• ba■ beea the bi& boa• of coatentioa la the paat, aa4, if it were ■ toppei, there would be a nob better chance of th• A.r.of L. and th• c.1.0. Jolai111 in one 1iantanic oraaaisatioalith tw•l•e aillloa ••1•• aeaber1. C, COMIIJRIST HEARING A New York hearing, held by the Cormn1ttee on Un-American Activities, had a highly theatrical atmosphere today - Band Leader Artie Shaw appearing as a witness. With tears in his eyes, he said he had been duped by the Connun1st, them use h1s name. He said he never joined the Party: "auapicion ot me is quite justified." had let ~ but added: " In his testlllony, the Baro Leader mentioned hi• •n, aarrlllae■ - the wiYes including Actresses Lana Turner and Ava Gardner, and No•eliat Kathleen W1naor. Prevloualy, Kathleen Winsor had stated that Artie Shaw tried to 111&ke a CCJ anl■t ot her. He stated that the Reda tried to recruit hill aa an under-cover worker for C01111Unis11 - at the time when he waa a member of the Hollywood Independent C0111Dittee for the Arts, Seiencea and Professions. me to go to meetings," he "I signed something that would enable ~ related. They told him to wr.1te down a false name, an alias, and he did. He insists it was not a that he signed, Communist Party card/\ but he doesn't remember exactly what 1t-wa1 COMMUNIST HEARING - 2 "The whole thing,' he says, "was done in a cloak-and--dagger ma atmosphere." He attended three meetings 1n all, and Jo1?Ed a large number of Camnun1at Front organizations. But in all So this he was duped. Aaaid Artie Shaw, with t • ~ in h_:_o eye■ •