L . • - DELC • MARCH 2 1, 1955 GOOD EVE I G EVERYBODY! The St ate Department h as just announced that it favors a top-level meeting with Soviet Russia, providing there is real evidence - that something can be accomplished. This statement was issued today in answer to Senator George of Georgi a - chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations - Committee, who, in a TV interview yesterday, called for a Big Power meeting as one "hope of avoiding war." The State Department said it was in agreement. But, with the qualification - that there should be some real hope of getting Soviet Russia to sign an Austrian peace tre a ty and a gree to free elections for the unification of Germany. At the White House, tha t same view was echoed. A ll of which is followed by another statem nt from LEAD - 2 Sn t r Gore. Who, tod y s a id conference w i h Soviet Russi a should b e c lled, without w ai ti for oro of of Russian good intentions. Te Senator declarin: "I do not think we can n cessarily wait for further action." So he urged President Eisenhower to take the initiative, and propose a Churchill-Bulganin-Eisenhower conference. With, presumably - the French Premier• included. If Churchill is to take part maybe they'll have to hurry. C o r t· e C urc 11 s 11 1 ru o fro L non - · a t Pr m e i n ister o r ire e rl ex mon t h . Sir ins on t o ve din er ~1 h Q u en Eliaa e they s y , hew 11 inform !er Maje on pr11 Forth, when, of is in e t on to resign. e news - o e made ublic the next a y, pril F fth. ccording to he London rumor , Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden wtll become the new Prime Minister, and will prom tly call - a gene . r a l election. The Conservatives - taking advantage of the split in the Labor Party. The feud - between Labor Party Leader Clement Attlee and the radical re be 1 Aneurm Bevan. But - there 1s a suggestion that the rumor was "planted," to force Churchill's hand. Rumors - put into circulation by Conservatives, who would like to see the aged Sir Winston retire. SUBSTITUI MOSCOW The soviets, today, carried on-with the - threat against the re-armament of Western Germany. -------,.,.--~~·-·- -- -- --- Announcing-that plane have been completed for a n1st military command in Europe. and the satellites-to place armed forces under a single commander. A Red But, aays Moscow, thie completed plan will take effect-only if the West proceeds with 1te prograa of re-armam6ng Western Germany. Which make• 1t-& stroke of propaganda. CHURCHILL Letter In France a document was made public today- a letter from Prime Minister Winston Churchill to former Premier Mendes-France. The purpose of the release-to influence the French Senate. Which, on Wednesday, will begin a debate oh the ratification of the treaty on Weit German r,armament. The Churchill letter dates back to•~••••• when Mendes-France was Premier, and was pr~poelng- top level talte with Soviet Rueata. lt ■•ltaaeoawl'r •ht ta Uta M••• lermad Pear a■ st ,a•••• , ... it1•••1 Churchill rejected that-in blunt language. In his letter to Mendes-France, he said-ratification - - ~ would have to come first . . if rrance refused, the I Western powere would go ahead, anyway.and rrance would be isolated. The place occupied by France in the councils of the West, would be vacanfan •empty chair~ { TANKER It looks as if that oargo of jet fighter fuel out in the Indian ocean-will have to go all the way back to Red Romania ." There was talk-that the Chinese communists m ght send their own tankers to take thousand tons of 011. But that seems Today, the crew of t~e r1nn1eh tanker radioed a new statement-back to Helsinki, their port. Repeating their previous refusal-to 1all to communlat wat~e~r ~ ~ ~ - - - - ; The h me company, 1n Finland, had invited the Chinese Rede to •come and get• the jet fighter fuel. But nowt answer has been received-in the negative. hlng doing. os1t1on 1« th'a.t the Reds don't want their own ships-t y1ng to run the Nationalist blookat• Or, they simply en't got the tankers to send. All ich leaves the Aruba-stranded in the Indian Ooean. Nothing to do, seemingly-but 2-TAJKER take the cargo back to where they got it, the Red Romanian oilfields. IRAN The heir to t h e thron e of Ir a n ha s b een " kidn a pped." Taken a w a y ' from a school in Switzerland - by his m other. Defying - the Shah of Iran. Shah Mohanuned Riz a Pahlevi h a s no children of his own, and the next in the royal succession w a s his brother Ali. Who, however, lost his life in a light airplane , accident - crashed in the mountains between TPbriz and Teheran. ~avlng All's seven-ye a r-old son - heir to the crown. His name is - Ali Patrick. An odd comlination - for a Moslem prince. The original Ali was the husband or Mohamed's daughter, Fatim a , and became CPliph of Islam. Patrick? The patron saint of Ireland. Prince Ali Patrick - enough to make a ny Pat Murphy blink in Irish ama~ement. But then, the name of the mother ts - Christiane. Which certainly doesn't sound Mohanrnedan either - Princess Christiane. The answer ts that the late Prince Ali married a French wanan. Which still doesn't expl a i n - "P a trick." But that's the way it is. IRAN - 2 Shah Mohannned R1za Pahlevi a nd Princess Christiane differed - a bout the way Prince Ali Patrick should be reared. The Shah put htn to school in Switzerland. The Princess - wanting to bring him up in France. ./\. •A UTILUS Today bring1 new, of the tirat under-water 1e11ion of a aongre111onal committee. The hear1n1- held below the 1urtao1 ot the ■ea, 1n t~■la ~~ aubmarine lautllua. ~ 0Ter the ••ekend, ■eabera of lhe Joint Con1re1eional Atomic Inergy Committee took a trlp aboard the lautllu1-wh1ch ■ade a 1erle1 of dlTe ■• The Coamlttee ■eaber1 took no~• of how the~ra- aodern crafl operated-and then, laat n11ht, a toraal co-lttee aeetlAI ••• held. ~• the •aut11u1-weat ·I cruialng, under ••••ra~ - ~. At the hearlag, eT.ldeace •a• &lTen bJ Rear Adalral B. G. llckoTer, guldlng aplrlt ln the development of the atomic 1ub■arlne. He g&Te lhe Committee an outline of how . undereea orafl, powere4 by the atoaiwould operate ln war. Rew naval 1+.r1e,le ma~o11lble-a revolutlon . - ln the way■ ot ■ea power, Today, all th11 wa• revealed by Committee / · - ~W~Jt ~ember Congr.,.-.man Van Zandl of Penny,lYanlaj,~••••• ........- 2-IAVJJLVI r,~ . .,- ,,¥1i the lauti ~ u• f ture ■ The ■ pee4 an4 endurance are •uch a• to - reYolutloaallze ■ ubaarlae I warfare.• herythln1-terrlflc. LJIIBAQI There•• trouble in the Liberace family. The / mother of the candelabra p1an1at wa.nte to call heraelf Mrs. Liberace. But ht• father aaye-no. leTeral year• ago, abe 41Torce4 ber bu1baa4 and ■arrted agaln. Acqulrln1-a new na■ e. Bui alaoe tben, her 10n ha1 become a celebrlty. 80 1he waa11 lo uae the na■e of-Liberace. And ~a• gone to courl-for per ■ 1111on. Today, lhe elder bro\her of \he plano playln1 atar had a ·••ting with hll father. Who •• , •• he'll oppoae le\llng hla 41Torce4 wlte call heraelf Mra. Llberaoe. • ■he baa no rlgh\ to u1e ■J na■e,• he 4eclare4. MINSFIELD I am broadcasti fro m one of my f a vorite places toni t , t e Lode t S mugg lers' otch, a t the foot of Mt. Mansfield, in Vermont. Here for the Internation al skl races, in which there were many stars runn ng the famous ose Dive - • about one hundred and thirty r ac ers trom five or six countries. Top honors aga in went to American Olympic star Andrea Mead Lawr nee - ~wenty-two years old now and mother of two sons. A newcaner over here, a blonde flash from Austria, Andreas Molterer, and a nineteen-year-old ball of fire from Steamboat Springs, Colorado, Bud Werner, one of the stars on this year's championship University of Denver team. The Stoww International s1k races came to a rather sensational finale. Excellent snow, glorious sunshine, with several of the men breaking the course record set by Brnie McCullou gh of Mt. Tremblant two years ago. Accidents? A few. Dorothy Modenese of Se a ttle, rocketed off tnto the trees, breaking her pelvis and a few MANSFIELD - 2 ribs - a nd hol 1ng up the r ce for a half hour. This was early in th r a c e. You can ima ine the feelings of the others, waiting at the top of the mount a in - w a iting - waiting. Andrea Me a d who already h a d made th e run, called the top of the moun ai n on the ph one, a nd encour ag ed the crowd or chilled• and no doubt apprehensive racere. She said to them: "The course is okay! Don't worry about itJ Come on down and have fun!" Everybody expected Martin stroltz, Austrian star, to triumph - maybe easily. But Bud Werner or Colorado, cut corners and somehow managed to win by the wide margin of almost five seconds. In a two mile downhill ski race, five seconds is regarded as a spectacular victory. Nowadays these lads who take part in down-mountain racing run wide open most of the time. To see them taking a precipitous one like Mansfield, highest in the Green Mountains - to see them take it straight - is a rather MANSFIELD - 3 breath-t akin experienc . Color a do, the University of Denver, a nd his coaches Gordon Wren and Willy Schaeffler, can be proud of young nineteen year old Bud Werner from steamboat Springs. And he did it on borrowed skis! h yes, knd the lympic team was announced after the race: Tom Corcoran, U.S. NavyJ Brooks Dodge, U.S. &rmy; Dick Mitchell, U.S. Air Poree; Les Streeter, Middlebury College; Bud Verner, University of Denver; Relph Miller, U.S. Army; Marvin Moriarity, Mt. Mansfield. Altemates: William Beck, Mt. Mansfield, Vennont, and Ken Lloyd, Reno, Nevada. Women's Squad: Andrea Mead Lawrence, Colorado; Katy Rodolph, Nevada; Dorothy Modenese, Seattle; Betsy Snite, New Hampshire, and Skeeter Werner, Colorado. Alternates: Jeannette Burr Bray, Seattle and Penny Pitou, New Hampshire. They will race for us at the Winter Olympics, next year, at Cortina, Italy. "Spring, pntle spring!" - sings the poet. At four thirty-six A.M. today, eastern standard time, spring arrived, officially. But you'd never know it - from the weather up here, where right now we are in the middle of a bli:zzard. The ~hairman of the United s tates 8 teel Corporation predicts• one of th e greatest periods ot prosperity this country has ever seen". Testifying at the tienate investigation of the stock aarket booa, BeaJiain Fairless declared the steel industry percievea no weak spots in the National econoay. So he for••••• a rise of basin••• and a decline ot uneaployaent fortbe re1t of the year. l hope, B•1~, that•• 01 with 7ou! And all our liatnersl