Tuesday, August 3, 1948 Good E•eoiog everybody! rro■ Chicago tonight. ~••• dropped off here oo ay way back fro■ a .. f•• days in a pri ■ eYal forest -- aaong those to•eria& Redwoods of Califoraia, the oldest liYiDI thiaas oa this planet -- trees that were old whaa Leif the Luok7 diaco•ered ■erica. Bohe■ iaa Gro••• oa the ••••iaa Bi•er, i• a real place for a rest -- or at any rate a cban1e -- and t o get a new perapecti•• on life, aad oa the daJ'a •••• too. Before I talk about then••• -- a aalate to •1 all-•i•• friend John lieran -- the ■ an who baa all tile iaforaatioo oo nearly •••r1thia1. I be r be did a araal job in •1 absence. Thank• John -- aad aay you 11•• \o be half aa old aa th• ledwooda of Califonial lo• soaethioa about what bas been 1oia1 oa ia •1 absence -- ia th••• daya of one criaia after aaotber. Tonight brings us an official state ■ ent of what Conareas ia going to do a bout an anti-inflation bill. Representative leaders issue a stateaent that an act will be passed cla■ ping control• on credit -- inatlll ■ ent buyina and bank loana. All the reet of the prograa presented by President Truaan will be ianore4 -- includiD& la•• to restore rationing, price-fixiq ••• wa1• reetrictiona. Presioent Truaan•s conferences on the international crisis were held this afternoon -- after the President had luncheon at the White House. The ator7 of what went before is a tribute alike to the Tru■ aa habit of early rising and to the speed of ■ odera airplaae travel. The presidential ■ ornfng began at Independeace, . Miaaouri, where Barry Truaan, a1 a liaaouri ,oter, caat hia ballot. It was pri ■ ary election day, with tort7 ei&ht D• ■ ocrats running for no ■ ination to 1l1hteea offices -- not countiag th• Republicans. In the President•• own congres1ional diatrict, the Fourth, fi,e De ■ ocrats were in a tree-for-all for the congressional no ■ ination, while four Re ublicaas battled it out on their side. Barry Tru■ an was the fifth ,oter to cast a ballot at Independence, arri,ine at the polls at Six Thirty-Two .M. There a ceremony was enacted, a standard bit of ritual at Independence, the local version of the kind of comedy that usually attends a President casting I!YMAI , F OLL O __ B E RLIN - 2 a vote. Mrs. Eaaa Flowers, a Re , ublicao election official, looked up at leigbbor Barry Truman, and asked: •1 wonder which ballot you want, ~eaocrat or Re p ublican?• The President laughed and said: •1 wonder!• Later on Mrs. flowers explained: •That•• what we alway• ask bi ■ and that's what he always replies.• And then abe did •h•t they always do bandiag the •oter fro ■ the lbite House a Deaocratic ballot, wbicb today was too feet long. I hope the Pre1ideat ■ arked i \ ri~ht -- with all thoae coaplicationa of fort7-•i1bt Deaoorats •••king no■ ination for •i&hteen officea. The Red spy disclosures rose tone sensation today. The star witness appearing before the coamittee un-American activities, was ihittaker ~ha ■ bers, who i now a senior editor of Time and Life,one of the ■ ost iaportant ■ agazine publishing fir ■ s in this countr1. ~ hit~aker ~haaers, a for■er Co■auniat ■e■ber of he Bed underground, told the co ■■ ittee how in lineteea Thirty-line he sought to warn the White liou ■e, the lat President franklin D. Roosevelt, of the way Co ■■ unist conspirators were infiltrating into the aovern■ ent - Reda holding high federal ofticea)Cha■bera, hi■aelt, already having turned against Co■■ unis ■, hia experieaoea with Reda having convinced hi ■ that the Soviets revresented a dark ••nace to huaan freedo■ lie told today how, in hia atte ■ pt to infor■ President Roosevelt, be got word fro ■ ibite House Secretary Marvin McIntyre - word through a third part7. The Presidential secretary, through this intermediary, advised him to tell his story to Adolph Berle, who was then Assistant ' ecretary of State. So - t YION GE -~ ---- ---- Chambers had a t lk · ith Berle, and gave him the data ~bout Reds high in the government -- including the St te Department. ( lh .. t hap eneCI? Ii o thin ) Cha■bers tod h7 stated that he did re1ard Adol h Berle as an anti-Communist and a very intelligent man -- but that the di closures aade to Berle produced no results. The Reds who ■ he naaed ■ erely stayed on. Such was the negative effect of the disclosure 0 arranged by that Third ~arty. But who was the third party? That is the interesting question. Be was Issaac Don Levine, veteran journalist and now editor of the magazine •Plain Talk.• Today, when the story broke, Isaac Don Levine telephoned ■ e and reminded me of soae interesting things. He recalled the fact that in the days shortly before the war, we bad haa on this program a General Irivitsky, o ne-tiae chief of Soviet intelligence in waste turope, who had turned against Communism, and who bad written an expose in a sensational book. He •~slater i• found shot to aeath under myst ~ rious circumstances, Isaac Don Levine had collabor a ted in the writin g of the Irivitsky's book, and i t ~ as he who brought the Soviet ea-spy chief to me for appearance on this program. All this is now to be the next line of congression in q uiry -- why as it that nothing happened, after Chaabers disclosed to the Assistant ~ecretary of State the fact of Retta in high govern ■ ent office? Tbe coaaittee Adolph Berle t o t stify. Chaabers today na ■ ed a new series of is going to call (Wbi ttalter ; ~~.- naa • of coa■unists who were high in the goYern■ent/- ti Alger Biss, • high rbnking official of the State Depart■ ent, who helped in the founding of the United lations, h o accoapanied President Fr a nklin D. Roosevelt to the Yalta Conference, and who is now head of the Carnegie £ndowaent for International Peace)lao Donald Hiss, a brother of Alger -- he too held an iaportant post in the State Departaent and Nathan Witt, executive Se cretary of the National Labor Relati o ns Board during the New Deal, whom Chambers culled the first big tiae l e ader in the Coamunist Underground Operations in the feder a l government. Chambers like•ise confirmed charges made by tlizabeth Bentley, who has told bow she, as an agent of Red es ionage, procured secret information fro ■ overnment departments. Elizabeth Bentley bas naaed former Assistant Secretary of the Tre~sur7 Harry D. bite and today Chambers declared that lhite was one of the group of government Com ■ unists. All these persons naaed offer vigorous denial• and are likely to testify before the coa ■ itt••• To■ orro• the first witness will be lathan Gregory Silvermaster, formerly of the Department of Co ■■ erce. Russian born, he ie described by lliubeth Bentley AS having been a ■ eaber of the oviet secret police. lext will co ■ e Victor Perlo, for ■ erly of the Treasury Vepart■ ent, and Air Forces -- also accused of Soviet espionage. ----------0----~----~ A new possible dispute between Congress and the White House aa7 develop out of the case of William I. Remington, the Commerce ~epartment official naaed by !§~lQI.A~- -5 ~lizabetb ~entley. today the committee demanded the employ• nt recorder of Remington, but WhS told that permission would have to be gotten fro ■ the White House. Hitherto, Presi ent Truaan has refused to gi•• Congresa loyalt1 files, and now that question co ■•• o ■o• &iain. Aeaington was given a confidential post, after be had already been accused of Coa■ uniat espionage. in ~onQon today the u.~. scored live notable vio t oriea in the Ulympic games. uur athlete• winning five of the aeven gold medals awarded on tbis, tbe iourth day of the games. abich brings our total of - •iol a• to fourteen. ~ne Aaerican fou - ■ an •a• set up a new world record tor the eight-hundred ■ eter relay awia - •iib\ ■ inutea and forty-six secontts. Anotw Olyapic record went to lilbur ihompson of the Univer1ity of ~outbern California, ilbur putting \be shot fifty four feet, two inohea, ~printer Mel ~atton claiaed the two bwadrea aeter dash, as we expected. tben, ~icki ~rawea of ~an Francisco won the •o ■ en•a spring board diving championship. Tbe fifth gold aettal of the day •a• clai••• by Arthur£. ~ook of lasbington, u. C. -- for saall bore rifle shooting. The U.o. basketball teaa had a narrow squeat in their preliminary match with Argentina. Alter being ■ ell behind, however, they aanagett to win by fifty-nine to fifty-seven. The ■ atch as a minor tragedy for Hob OLYMl'IC~ -2 ------- lurland, the team's crack scorer. liob is seven feet tall. Coach Omar sensed that his tremendous height was aakin& our taaa unpopular with the otber competitors. ~o be kept Bob on the sideline, a gesture of aportsaansbip -- or shall we call it tact. CRISIS -- From Joscow the word is that a new development is expected within the next twenty-four to thirty-six hours. The ~oscow di8patch attributes this to be ell infor ed oviet sources -- after last night's conference that the estern ambassadors had with Stalin. It is believed this next step will be another round table talk, with the envoys of the Onited State,, Great Brit~in and France negotiating again with Stalin, or perhap1 Molotov -- or both. This word fro ■ Mosco• is all wt have; beoau1e in Washington, London and Paris, there's a complete blank - secrecy. le hear that our governaent, seeking to keep everything concealed, made some pointed remarks to the British government -- reminding the British how secrets have a wa of leaking out in London. But they were not leaking out today, secrecy preserved in London aa -- elsewhere. So we don't know what transpired last night between the western envoys and Stalin. There is no indication of what was said, what proposals ere made, , • ' .. - ~ .! . . - . , - - - - . - ~ - . ... - - .... - .,. -- - • =--~ .. ,,. .. - -i . .. • i • . . - . ♦ - •• i • -r :. .. i . .. ar •• • ~ •i - . : i . . - a i I> \ . is f eac • 1 i i • a . is i i i Q e •• • ia i • • ac i•i i • e i in• • las lngto I 0 on, Paris • d lose •• •1 i eel wt\ big-ti■e C fere cea at top .. eve 8 Preaid• t Truau an is a Yisera, for exa e, engage in t e 8 ud of 0 ficial f what . between the •• \ern repor s passe a bassa ors and Stalin last night. 'l ' l ~, a e 1 no , 1 n ra ot c nant,e. Ein tein revol tionizing ■ be ■ atics, to ic tbeoriea, trans or ■ ing the ccience of bysics, ano alteration• even ta in pl ce in •hat tbe poets used to ca 1 - the fora di•ine. ~•• not ■ ucb an expert on that tiad of aivinity. It takes a frencbaan to be inspired on th• aubject of those curvea and contours. ~o let•• 10 . over to Peria, and eee what the ne•• there baa to ••1• lta about -- hip• -- •hicb ladle• are &DOWD to haYe. The dispatch froa Paria notea, tbat of reoen\ ti•••• the atylea ba•e been aucb tnat bip• •••••d abou\ to disappear. Mut no• all tbat baa cbanaed. 1ae ae• look Drought hip• bact into fashion, and tbe ultra new look ia aating tbea bigger and better. That i• the leaaon to be learned froa the ae• faanioa• no• beia1 placed on exhibition in Paris. Fro ■ the way the dispatch reads, you might say -- bip, as in hippopotaaus. However, as I reaarked, the proper one to expatiate on these delicate aatters is a ~TY~~~--2 Frenchman. ~o let us to appeal to one of the principal P~riaian dress designera, Marcel Hochas. late laaaee, Chicago's number one authority on things Priaian tell• me that•• pronounced Ro Iab. Say Marcel -- •woaen uaed to be ashaaed of hips, but al! I drape anG giorifl their natural shape.• And that ladaae, ah, toat ia aoaething -- glorifying the hips. To which I can only say -- Hip Hip Hurray. And no• •eleon, pray, what do you aa7?