Louis Lyons and the News; 9/16/1957

Now WGBH TV and FM for example is on the news. Mr. Lyons is curator of the naman fellowships at Harvard. Mr. Lyons Oh here's the nose. In West Germany Chancellor Adenauer conservative Christian Democrats swept yesterday's election for the first time they command a clear majority of the popular vote and will have a substantial majority of seats in the fundament Adenauer governed by a coalition. Last time in 1953 is 41 only forty five percent of the popular vote. They now have a fairly well over 50 percent and they got apparently returns now nearly completed. Pretty nearly 17 million votes as against for after nearly Cann million for the Social Democrats. That was a good gain of more than 3 percent for the socialist to the fortune of socialists in Germany seems to be fairly constant of the classified as a free democratic vote. Two and a third maybe even the so-called German party another million. The neo nazi right party got only one percent

off a little from their 53 strength in seats agonized body would have 270 out of the 497 total in the Bundestag according to The Associated Press. The socialists will have one hundred sixty nine. The Free Democrats for he won that German party 17 and not others at all. So I now find it has a good margin of 40 votes to get it over with a combined total of the other 88 percent of the qualified German voters turned out for this election. Weather strengthens the leadership of the 81 year old chancellor and it gives German conservatism a more dynamic look than it had before the West to a West Germany's allies NATO of course are chaired by the results. Now a campaign for the straight western line just about a straight line strength NATO rearm Germany take a stiff line with Moscow. The winners had the advantage of prosperity which makes Germany indeed the shining mine in Europe and of course the Soviets by that course in Hungary and elsewhere

had pushed the electorate into ad now as can observers now that over 81 percent of the total vote went for the two major party suggesting a trend away from the splinter parties that have reflected instability and weakness in other parliamentary governments in Europe that suggest an increase in strength and confidence in Germany following the news tonight our background will be on Germany after the election. The situation in Little Rock remains uncertain and apparently I'm settled. What if anything was decided in Newport on Saturday is no better known now than it was then despite the welter of newsprint published about it. Governor Bush remained secluded inside and today his national guard remained in token force around the school some 30 of them. Whether he's going to remove them before the federal court hearing Friday he is not sad. What he has said since Saturday a news conference and a television interview has been interpreted so many ways as to be meaningless threats he intends it that way the president has not cleared the issue from his and either the most definite action today was by Congressman Brooks highways who would arrange the new

conference he cancelled speaking engagements in Texas today to return to Little Rock twice former Governor Bush decided before he decided to return home. It looked as though Mr. Hayes found he still had an unfinished job on his hands. At two news conferences today Mr. Haggerty The president's press secretary for a few is comment on the fact that the National Guard continued on duty in Iraq and he referred other questions to the president's statement of Saturday which said that Governor Faubus stated his intention to respect the decisions of the United States District Court. He did say that he does not expect the Justice Department to petition for any delay in the federal court hearing now set by a judge today these five Rite Aid. At one point he was asked by reporters whether the president was a shorter day as it was Saturday that published what obey federal court orders I think so I could have applied over senator the Democratic Advisory Council which included both former President Truman and Adelaide Stevenson issued a

sharp criticism of both the president and Governor Faubus over the Little Rock issue. They said the president had failed in his duty to make the principle clear at all that the first duty of a governor is to uphold the federal Constitution. And they said that Governor Faubus should be using his powers to upload the orders of the court instead of to what the 17 of the 25 member Council endorsed a Democratic statement free from the Deep South. You sanded the president left it to Haggerty to talk to the Democrats. He said he thought it would be funny if it were not so pathetic to see the Democratic advisory council trying to play politics with the situation down at Iraq the president he said is concerned with solutions and not with political speeches and the other times this morning has a profile of the man in the news. Yes Ashmore editor of the Arkansas Gazette who talked to us by telephone from Little Rock last Tuesday night on our program that calls in the voice of the new South Ashmore represents opposition on the Iraq issue and is a force for integration. His influence and that of his

paper have loomed larger the past week. At the United Nations the foreign ministers are reading powers are shaping their courses for the General Assembly session that opens tomorrow. It was a special session last week that acted on the one gallery in question and acted as expected Saturday to vote a condemnation of the Soviets and the radical government. This by substantially more than the needed two thirds vote today Mr. Dallas and the French foreign minister Selwyn Lloyd lunch together. They reported to have talked about the usefulness of raising the disarmament issue again in this session. And about the Russian actions on the Middle East they certainly discussed also the election of a new president. The General Assembly New Zealand ambassador to Washington said Leslie Munro always a candidate and he only secured American support and he rarely had of course the support of his British Commonwealth colleagues. Since then as the Middle East is growing hotter adopted child mounted a much respected Lebanese diplomat has been persuaded to stick the UP United States and Britain are both committed to my own role but if he chose to stand aside for this term they would certainly be

happy at the time to recognize the Arab world. So the election of Dr mouth. Laya will be admitted as the eighty second member. The delicate issues of Cyprus are now Geria around the program. Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko will be on hand for the opening and Mr Delage is scheduled to make the first major speech it may not come tomorrow to make gold in New York today called on Secretary General how much shall we do to be elected for another five year term at this session. The Security Council had scheduled a meeting on this about two weeks ago to recommend his reappointment. But the Russians asked the meeting be delayed until Let me call Iran and India's defense minister and diplomatic troubleshooter Krishna min is coming in tomorrow to head his country. Our State Department has appealed he added with a red face a parting shot up private and A.