EISENHOWER Lf Toni gh t President uisenhower is back i n Gettysbur g . The President drove from Washington, in spite of icy rains and slippery roads. Part of the trip was over a winding, mountainous back road - but even so, he m a d e ~ ,, ~ i n just under two h.-s, about his usual time. There at the farm to greet him - Mrs. Eisenhower and her mother. The First Ledy has been there for the past two days. ~ ' t 6 r ~ During his stay at ~ f a r m , ~ will work on his Foreign A id message - which goes to Congress next week. The President also brought to the farm an Irish silver bowl, almost two hundred • years old, full of sh8Jlll'ocks from County Waterford. The bo~l and the shamrock, presented to Irish Prime Minister~ Costello, who will preside over New York's St.Patrick's D a y Parade. ~ The President)? an honorary member of the Friendly Sons of St.Patrick - ~ b e a m e d ~ received the bowl rrom the Irish Premier. EISENHOWER - 2 Gettysburg. DULLES Secretary of State Dulles flew 1 to Formosa from Manila today. At the T ipei airport, he issued a prepared statement - pled ing American support for Chiang Kai-shek. ~ s c r i b i n g Chiang's regime as "the only lawful ~ government in China," ~ added that time has proven ~ the wisdom of our mutual defense treaty with Chiang Kai-shek. --~-~- From the airport, Ill(. 1"lles drove to the American A Embassy - for a briefing by Ambassador Karl Rankin and Under-Secretary or state for Par &ast Affairs, Walter Robertson : WEST GERMANY The Upper Houseaf the West German t' arliament - approves a new army of half a million men - to joln the Western defense alliance. '!be bill had already 898G passed• the Lower House - so now the government has authority to go ahead. Plans call for almost a humred thousand men to be under arms by the end of this year - the core of what eventually will amount to twelve divisions. A significant thing about today's vote:- the Chamber was sitting in West Berlin. In other words, the West German ..-- ....... ~- legislators were more than a hundred miles inside the Iron Curtain - when they took thetr·dramatic decision to raise an army for the defense . of the West. CYPRUS Today the British authorities evicted the nU residents of ten homes, in what is called, "terror town" - the section of Nicosia where twenty-one murders or attempted-murders have been committed in the past few months. The eviction order came soon after new curfew rules were imposed on Nicosia :t:f:two o t ~ e e . )8q__ that ~A~ curfew, the inhabitants of th"cities are under virtual house arrest. only one woman from each family allowed to leave each day - to shop. The evictions in "terror town" are intended to force information about the terrorist underground. The houses will be closed up and sealed - as soon as the residents have moved out their belongings. The eviction, to last for three months. At the same time, British troops forced their way into shops in "terror town", where they found shotgun armnuni t ion, home -made bombs, and newly printed propaganda leaflets - urging the &t Cypriotes to intensify their fight against the British. ALGERIA Tonight's story about North Africa tells of more reinforcements for Algeria. ·1, the French government acting ~ m e r g e n c y / , ~ powers voted by the Senate - the widest authoPity given iJl any Paris government since iorld W Two. We hear that five thousand recruits may get their trainiOH in Algeria . ...._,he government is considering recalling half a million reservists - for action in that vaat North Arr1can territory. And France is withdrawing another of ~~ her divisions from Neto - for use 1n Algeria.~a veteran mechanized division. These figures show how seriously Premier Mollet is taking the Algerian situation. Tomorrow the Minister for Algeria, where he Robert LaCoste, will fly to tt111u■ w Algiers - y ~ will declare publicl~a~ the whole weight of the ~ French army will be thro n into crushing the nationalist r e b e l l i o n ~ ~ ISRAEL There as more shootin a long the G 2a Strip today - - ~ Israell a nd &gyptian troops, exchanging firej ~ each -.. side blam~the other. According to an Israeli spokesman, ,... the Egyptians erea1'w ~ncWe-nt&- ~heT'l'-theJ opened up with rifle and automatic ~ fire a t ~ places along the frontier. Egypt retorts that an Israeli patrol fired on an Egyptian position for two hours. Both Mr~ are asking the U.N. Armistice Commission to investigate. In Jerusalem, the Israeli chief-of-staff repeats that his country must have more weapons - to maintain the balance of power. ~ lhat without them - Israel ~◊--··:J~ cannot prevent the bombing of her ctt<e~: ~<"' -B~•A that u his troops are ready for action, and,.Aisrael cannot be defeated by the armies,.._ CANADA The Canadi n government approves thr e Israeli applications for arms. So announc d ~ ttawa. ~ The Premier by rime Minister ~t.Lauren / sa id th at the decision was t ken in view of the t e n s i o n ~ in the Middle East,- ..:B'"J-°~ AC nada f e e l s ~ the s . tuation is not quite as critical as it as during the ~days after the dismissal of Glubb P sh a ~ - - ~ of the t rab Legion. "- ~ h e Israeli request was accepted.~• ~ J r m . s to be ohipped at once - ammunition, spare parts for Sherman tanks, nd electronics equipment. JORDAN trainload of British travelers ar rived in London n~~ today - from Jordan. nd they say th at ~ country flt" young / ,I. '-- ' ~""' King Hussein - ~ danger of civil war. The reason, rival factions in the Arab Legion - strug g li ng for powe , following the dismissal of Glubb Pasha, now Sir J o hn Glubb. The British declare that the rank and ~ file of the Arab Legion - still regards Glubb as IF-hero. The y are said to be angry with / \ forced the ouster of Sir John. A We also hear that King Hussein's popularity is waning. His people may have approved of his appointing a Jo~danian to control the Arab Legion - but they don 1 t like his determination to stay clear of the II Cairo Axis" - that allignment of Egy t, Syria and Saudi rabia. Ag:tat Agitators are already fomenting trouble for King Hussein. ~ : : : r - ~ - ~ 4 ~ W a n , TIMES T day's ew York imes carries a sensational story - a bout the new anti- t a ltn line in ussia. The story - written y H rrtson alisbury, ~ho used to be the Moscow Correspondent of the Times. P lisbury stats that word has reached the West - of a secret talk delivered by Khrushchev before last month's meeting of the Communist PPrty Congress. Khrushchev, explaining to the comrade - why the new collective leadership in th Kremlin has discarded the old myth about Stalin . ...L The new Red boss told t ~ closed session, that the trut about the old Dictator's regime - became known only after his death. Khrushchev didn't say this - but the truth as he gave tt, adds up to pretty much what we thought at the time. -- Khru hchev describes Stalin as a suspicious tyrant - always watching for plots gainst him. And sending to the firing squad anyone who roused his suspicions. The terror grew so great - that no one around Stalin knew whether he might be next on the list. TIMES - 2 Khrushchev said th t even m e mbers of the olitburo were kept in gnorance about what w nt on in the Kremlin. For example, one mem e of the State Plannin C mmtssion ~ ~ ' disappeared in Nineteen Forty- ine. tro one tn the Politburo knew what h d become of him - until documents were found after Stalin's death - showing that them n had been executed secretly. Then there were the lieutenants of another Politburo member who died in Nineteen Forty-Eight. 'Pt,oae~tlk-- ~disappeared all of a sudden - and • .nru hchev says 1t 1 s now known that ~talin had them executed too. Khrushchev also went back to the earlier period of Stalin's rule - the period of the notorious purge trials. One of Stalin's most famous victims at that time - was Marshal Tukhachevsky. I army•- yet Stalin had him suddenly arrested and s h o t . ~ 1/ Q typical talin performance - ~ his victim executed ~ a f t e r a trumped-up trial. '!'IMES - 3 The off1cial Commu nist line w as that the Marshal was a traitor - fou~d guilty o conspiring w th Germany a nd J pan to overthrow t 1 n's government. Now Khrushchev says that there was no basis for the charge. He's quoted as calling the Tukhachevsky execution "a terrible mistake" - partly responsible for the G rman victories in in teen Forty-One -- which the dead Marshal might have handled better than those whom Stalin placed in command. '(rom /4.. The picture -eM-t we ge~ ~A the Khrushchev talk - is of a tyrant surrounding himself with yes-men - making the K r e m l i n ~ ~ terror, by killing ol!f anyone he disliked. v-r;'~ sounds l!ltt!l-..~ like what the West was saying F"f-.:,,n~~- ago - in the days when Khrushchev was one 7, -/:,,( of the loudest in praisf.ig 4 the tyrant. Now even )OH aehohot /'-- admits that the man who terrorized Russia for so many years, should be remembered in history as another Ivan the Terrible. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ r , e - - - ' M ' ! ' ' & f t ' O f l ' j - ' T ~ ~ ~ "Stalin t11a Terrible. 11 M A LE NKOV -------- An Engli s h g ir de s cribe s a f ormer Soviet P remier a s "a most a tr a ctive man". Sonia Bamburg, born in Engl a nd, of R u ss ian p arents, p ea s Russian fluently. She wa s in charge of an electrical exhibition w hen M a lenkov arrived f or a tour. After a long talk with him - in Russian - she s aid that while Ualenkov is not at all good looking, he is charming. That' s her verdict on one Bolshevik leader who lost his job, without losing hi s head. To the British he a pp ears as a jovial, amiable visitor, genially sh e king hands with everybody. We hear he w ent on an unscheduled sightseeing tour. Drivin g to a meeting with Foreign Sec~etary Sel w yn Lloyd, suddenly his c a r p ulled out of the line - and raced into Trafalgar Square. There it drove , round and 'round, w hile U a lenkov too k a good look at the Nelson Monume n t - the victor of Tr a falgar atop that famou s column in Traf a lgar Sq uare. FIRE - A New Y rk family is alive today, all because the baby r ~re t h ~ e ~ in his vocabulary. Two year old David /\ A - ~ tA~w,yJ~ Ilchuk likes to play with fire engines - ~ ~ o w s l l l a : .. ..- ~ word "fire 11 • Early this morning he began to shout, 11 fire!" - until he woke up his parents. They found the apartment full of smoke, the building on fire. They ■x all managed to climb out of a window - just in time. A two year old, giving the alann by shouting the one word he knows - 11 f ire. 11 S T. A TRIC K 'S DAY ----------------- New York tonight may be having its r o ughest blizzard of the season, but down in sunny Tam p a, Florida, they ar e p re pa ring to celebr a te Ireland's patron Saint in a big way. Tampa has a lot of citizens named Gomez, Fernandez and Martini. The story is, that they are g oing to give their names an Irish touch: - O'Gomez and O'Fernandez and 0 1 Yartini, l i ke Bernard O'Higgins hero of South America. The idea started with a real Irishman - Phil O'Hara. Be got the idea that the Latins of Tampa ought to celebrate St. Patrick's Day - hel p him. So they started it, without any thought of making it an annual event. Today s aid O'Hara: "l just told my Latin friend that the first kings of Ir e land were from Gaul, which included S p ain." And he added that hi s Latin friends p ractically all have Irish blood in their veins, since they drink :rish whiskey. Anyhow, Henry, tomorrow in Tam p a will be " Sa n P atri k io Day."