Mhm. Now let's come back to san Francisco where the United Nations
conference is really doing things to a man whom you should know frank.
Mccall Director of news and special events for the new york office of NBC
frank if you don't mind. I'd I'd like to tell you that you don't look too
well this morning. Well, I don't feel too well howard well, how's it going
anyway, frank. Are you happy with the whole thing or you, would you rather
be back in new york? I'd very much rather be in new york right now or
almost anywhere else. And my only comment on the conferences such as no
comment isn't that pretty generally the case. That's the case over there.
We're in an operation in radio wise. It's almost unbelievable in relation
to what normal broadcasting is. I think you appreciate how it having been
over there and see what we're trying to do. And the problem is that
there's never been a conference exactly like this before, certainly not in
the history of radio and we're trying to broadcast this and a lot of
problems. That's what I'm worried about. Uh did you set this up in new
york before you came out here or has it been done since you came here? No
, I was, I came to san Francisco about four months ago from Pearl Harbor.
I was out with the sink back. That is the head of the Navy operation.
Getting some broadcasting arrangements out there and it came back to san
Francisco to try to translate those into reception and we're just about to
leave town to get ready to and we got word from the altar, there's going
to be a big conference here being international conference. So I was told
to stay around and see what I could do about it. How much time are you
trying to release from the Veterans building and the Opera House? Well, as
of this hour we have a big pacific war going on. We have the end of the
european war in progress, we have a conference on and the problem and the
problem is to try to get all three of them broadcast as fairly as possible.
I think you're doing very well frank in spite of you rather rumpled
appear. Well this isn't like any other radio show I was ever on. I mean
I've covered wars and I've covered democratic national conventions and
I've covered most everything there is in radio. But this is entirely
different because one thing is the language element 2ndly the element of
of this other big news we've got. And third the fact that the State
Department is doing an almost impossible job and finally getting it done
of organizing this business as you know, When they met at Yalta two or
three months ago all of a sudden they announced they were going to have a
conference in San Francisco. This town next perhaps next to Norfolk
Virginia is the most crowded city in the United States. The thousands of
servicemen are an everyday on leave, all our personnel, military and
commentators, correspondents, army men are on their way. The pacific
through here. It takes about four days and 15 letters to get a hotel room
in normal times and all of a sudden we are told that On a certain date
there will be a big conference involving 44 nations, 1200 newspaper men
and radio people to 3000 delegates, AIDS assistance cooks for the Chilean
delegation and so forth. If you were lucky you were here, I was here first.
So the problem has been to get all these people housed, get them up to
the veterans Opera House. The security angle is terrific there. Imagine
you can appreciate the important people involved Secret Service, the army
and so forth. Can fusion dying down a little bit a little bit today. I
talked to the hall a while ago and they made very important decisions as
you know on organization. I had breakfast with commander Stassen today,
the american delegate and he's rather optimistic about things. So I think
sincerely so because we were just sitting around the breakfast room over
the Clift hotel and sort of shooting the breeze and he seemed reasonably
happy if I was going to work. All right, they are very terrific problems.
But they think they have a formula at least to discuss the mortally and
get something going. Been a very colorful meeting. It is a very colorful
meeting. I mean the idea of the number of nations involved and the setting
of san Francisco san Francisco is a fabulous city. Is somebody coming the
other day. It never was a small town. It was always a big city from the
time they started, somebody told me this morning, I think it was that this
is much more of a city than Los Angeles. I mean in a metropolitan Los
Angeles people listening to me on this program, I don't know how far your
wavelength goes. They're entirely different cities. There's all the
difference between the world between new york and Miami and Los Angeles
and san Francisco. 1's a city that's San Francisco. The other is a, what
might be described as a great big community frank. I hope you survive it.
Well, I'm gonna do my best Howard and I hope you learn something up at
the conference is there to mind if you do please let me know. Thanks.
Thanks. Thanks a lot Howard,
I want you to know ladies and gentlemen that frank. Mccall has been an
invaluable aid to us in working out the details of the United Nations
conference broadcast that are being released by the Valley National Bank
in Arizona recording facilities, accreditation helps contact by the dozens
, all our specialties with frank and he hasn't spared a single courtesy
and obliging our needs. We appreciate his generous cooperation. Even as we
do the generous cooperation of K f. I. Earl See Anthony well known to all
of you in the Los Angeles area as the packet distributor. That should make
shot boy you're very very happy because I could say the same for him in
phoenix. Mr mason is our technician tonight and we're personally grateful
to him in introducing our next guest. There are dozens of things I might
say, but nothing about him impresses me quite so much as the fact that he
is the husband of one of the most attractive women I have ever met. She's
a lovely blonde, lovely in the most beautiful sense of the word. Ladies
and gentlemen, carver as well. Thank you Howard. Hello everybody. This is
carve it. Well speaking
well the good ship an SEO is on its way and has already weathered its
first storm. As I look back I should say that the most interesting day was
the first plenary session when molotov Anthony Eden and dr soon spoke dr
soon like so many chinese not only spoke english beautifully with a rich
vocabulary, but he spoke at a good deal better than many englishmen. That
china was to enjoy great popularity at the conference was shown by the
burst of applause that greeted Dr Sue in an extremely scholarly address.
The leader of the chinese delegation while he made no mention of Pearl
Harbor reminded his audience that World War two started when Japan invaded
Manchuria, which is an indication that china will probably expect to
return to her of that great region which has been such a bone of
contention between Russia and Japan as the subject of the disposition of
Manchuria is likely to be a difficult problem, almost as difficult as the
polish question. It was very interesting to note that the chinese
statesman stated with great deliberation, that we must not hesitate to
surrender a part of our sovereignty in the interests of collective
security and that as for individuals, for nations great and small, there
must be liberty under the law.
The applause that greeted these remarks was spontaneous and hottie, but
before anyone had time to discuss the matter and there was a sudden
stirred among the great audience and people stood up while others shouted
of them, sit down as Mr Stettinius announced the next speaker, Mr molotov
, The mysterious Russian who seems to appear and disappear at will, to the
consternation of newspaper men and the disappointment of the crowds ran up
the steps just like a schoolboy, hurrying to get out of the school Behind
him, beside inside his interpreter. And for the next 20 minutes Molotov
spoke rapidly and emphatically in Russian, and really it was a tribute to
his personality and also to the great interest of the world in him as the
mouthpiece of Stalin, that everyone was absolutely quiet and attentive and
very molotov conscious, in spite of the fact that only a handful of people
could understand a word he said.
Unfortunately, it was almost as hard to understand the interpreter, and
when the speech was repeated in french, a steady stream of people
discovered that they had a date, Mr Stettinius looked very embarrassed and
was evidently much relieved when the french interpreter finished and he
was able to announce the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of the
United Kingdom. Mr. Anthony Eden. Oh, it was the most fortunate circuses
that Anthony Eden was chosen to conclude the first plenary session of the
conference. But he saved the day and instead of the meeting fizzling out,
he brought the audience to its feet for innovation. And the meeting ended
in a blaze of enthusiasm. But today one of the topics of conversation in
hotel lobbies is a very unusual one. The Tower of Babel, by the way. If
you have not read the story, may I suggest that you do read the second
chapter of the Book of Genesis, in which there is an account of the
building of a great tower whose top was going to reach even out of heaven.
In those ancient days, there was only one language on earth, and because
people vainly devoted all their energies to trying to accomplish an
impossible task. The Lord not only caused the people to speak many
different languages, but he also scattered them over the face of the earth.
Never before have people been brought so vividly face to face with the
results of their forefathers sins as they are at this conference, as it
dawns upon them at the speeches of the 46 nations will in all probability
be given in just as many languages And that if the speeches are going to
be understood by everyone of the delegates, then each speech and they have
to be interpreted 46 times and there'll be no end of this conference. Of
course this problem still remains to be solved satisfactorily.
You know, I heard today that 20 different cities were offered the honor of
having the conference of the United Nations 19 accepted and the only one
to refuse with San Francisco. But the conference came here just the same.
Okay, thank you very much garbage. Wells friends. One of these mornings
I'm going to tell you an extra special story about car with Wells that has
nothing to do with his charming wife. We'll talk about that when I get
home
so much for our transcribed guests for this evening. I promised earlier
that I would tell you why this has been one of those Sundays I shall never
forget since early morning. I have been the guest of Captain and mrs
Joseph Madison Greer down in the Mare Island, Navy Yard and Hospital. I
have these two widely known Arizona's here in the studio with me tonight
and I want to have them say just a word or two to you, Captain Greer. It's
been a real pleasure to be with you and Mrs Greer today. Well, howard,
it's been a real pleasure to have had you with us. And while I'm on the
air, I'd like to extend greetings to my friends in the Valley National
Bank. My friends in rotary and my friends and all of Arizona,
we know that the United Nations conference is the all important things and
that's why our Howard Pyle is up in san Francisco at this time. However,
we also know that there are many reasons quiet as United Nations
conference is important and we think today that we were able to present
some of these reasons to Howard Pyle. And we hope that sometime during the
weeks to come, when he returns to Arizona that he will tell you something
about some of these reasons that makes this conference so all important.
I'll do that and you can depend on it. Dr Greer. If you don't mind my
reverting to our phoenix status just for the second Mrs Greer, would you
lean over here and say hello to your many friends in the state? Yes, I'm
very happy to say hello to all my friends everywhere in Arizona. four
years is a long time to be away from home that day that we went out humor
on into California. Seems a long time ago and it'll be a good thing to be.
Well, we love to have you home to. I'd like to recognize also that we
have in the party tonight. Captain kessler of the Mare Island Navy Yard
also or the hospital rather Lieutenant phillips and Lieutenant room strom
both ways in the Navy. They've all been in the party today and I want you
to know that I have enjoyed it thoroughly. It's been a privilege to have
you for here with me tonight. And I want to thank you for bringing me back
saturday afternoon I was introduced to the chief of NBC sound effects
division here in san Francisco and you'll never guess what his name is.
Believe it or not, It's Lloyd Creek more Lloyd Creek more. That's what I
call a perfect name for a sound effects man. Of course many say that names
don't mean anything, but I don't agree. You can't tell me that just any
bank by any name would be a satisfactory to at least 140,000 arizonans as
the one we appreciated. The Valley National Bank. True. There are many
fine financial institutions in Arizona. But there is only one valley bank
with 20 friendly convenient offices in Arizona. For those who do their
banking with this institution, there are special reasons for continuing
the practice just as there are special reasons for the constant stream of
new patrons that are continuously moving to the Valley National or their
accounts get acquainted with Arizona's largest financial institution. Ask
about its many superior services. And you'll conclude that there is
something in a name when that name is the Valley National Bank as I
promised you the other morning lucio Delgado. formerly manager radio
station K. Y. C. A. Prescott and now holding an important position with
the Department of inter american Affairs, will join me for tomorrow
morning 7 45 broadcast. I understand to the polish question is beginning
to be news again, so we'll talk about that too. Until then. This is Howard
Pyle reporting to the Valley National Bank to the people of Arizona,
directly from the United Nations Conference in SAn Francisco. This is the
network of the Arizona broadcasting Company. Mhm. Yeah.