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4 April 1949

bungling and waste of U.S. officials in Greece--these disclosures have not set well with certain high authorities in the State Department and the Pentagon Building. There has been a lot of muttering. Tonight, this program can report a complete official confirmation of these shock- ing disclosures. This official confirmation is contained in the report in the hands of the Joint Congressional Committee on the Marshall Plan ...For some unexplained reason, this report has been suppressed. Person- ally, I suspect that this suppression is due to the State Department and the Military; there is a very good reason why they would not want this report made public. It is very embarrassing to them, but I have a copy of this report, and here are a few of its many shocking charges and condemnations:...Further, that there are too many American offi- cials in Greece, and that a large percentage of them are being paid $10,000 a year in salary, plus an additional $7,000 for rents and food allowances; also, that many of these Americans are incompetent and are doing a poor job; also, that there is too much American ostentatious- ness in Greece, that many American officials are driving around in big shiny new cars and are living in a high-handed and showy manner...The report also charges that the Greek tax system is archaic, that the wealthy pay practically no taxes at all. Similarly, the report says that it is impossible for the ordinary man to get justice in the Greek courts. It is such conditions, the report declares, that are making Communists in Greece, not Russia, not the guerrillas...Here is the con- clusion of this suppressed report: "...It is impossible to win in Greece by purely military operations; nor will money, alone, buy the Greek people. Social reforms and better and more honest administration are fundamental to Greek recovery..."That is what this report that has been suppressed said. It is a despairing report because it shows that despite all that has happened the high brass in the White House, the State Department and the Pentagon have learned nothing; that despite the billions we have already spent, and the billions we are committing ourselves to spend under the North Atlantic pact, we are not winning the cold war against Russia...

SPAIN

WALTER WINCHELL(ABC): The White House: The U.S. will withdraw its 1946 resolution condemning Franco at the U.N. and will resume diplomatic re- lations with Spain unless public opinion--that means you--stops it.

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IRAN

WILLIS CONOVER(WWDC):...If the Russians ever decided to invoke that treaty (with Iran) they could overrun the country almost without firing a shot. Loss of Iran, with its oil, would be a major blow to the Western powers.

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"FLYING SAUCERS"

WALTER WINCHELL(ABC): Washington--This will not be confirmed by anyone in authority in Washington at this time; but, if anybody denies it, the denier will be a liar. The "flying saucers," never explained by anyone in authority, are now definitely known to have been guided missiles shelling all the way from Russia.

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U.S. AIR FORCE

WALTER WINCHELL(ABC): Curtiss Wright will announce tomorrow the newest airplane engine. It will give our biggest strategic bombers 2,000 miles more striking range. It is the turbo-cyclone. It can carry our long range atomic bombers around the world, without refueling--nonstop to Russia and back.

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WINSTON CHURCHILL

DREW PEARSON(ABC): Aboard the Queen Mary, exclusive--...I can reveal that Churchill's optimism is based on his belief that Stalin will soon die. Churchill believes the fiercest battle (among the 13 surviving members of the Politburo) will be over control of the army and the secret po- lice. The fight over the army, he predicts, will be so violent that no Russian leader will let the Red Army go beyond Russia's borders for fear it might mingle with the outside world and be turned against Moscow.

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WALTER WINCHELL(ABC):...Mr. Churchill did mention...that fights are sometimes avoided because somebody dropped dead, but that is not what any fighter who wants to win can ever count on. Mathematically, of course, peace still has a chance, about the same chance that a pigeon has against the slowest jet bomber.

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ATLANTIC ALLIANCE

WILLIAM HILLMAN(NBS): The President (in his speech tomorrow at the signing of the Atlantic Alliance) has an opportunity to stress the self-sufficiency and mutual aid that is the foundation of this treaty...

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