WEBVTT 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:07.707 Mhm. 00:00:07.740 --> 00:00:11.826 Good evening friends. This is Howard Pyle reporting for the Valley 00:00:11.859 --> 00:00:15.427 National Bank to the people of Arizona, directly from the United Nations 00:00:15.460 --> 00:00:19.877 conference in san Francisco By now, most all of you know what brought me 00:00:19.910 --> 00:00:23.037 to the city by the Golden Gate for this all important gathering of 00:00:23.070 --> 00:00:28.317 representatives from the 46 United Nations of the World recognizing the 00:00:28.350 --> 00:00:32.357 urgency of this historic meeting. The Valley National Bank. 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One of the most charming 00:01:50.859 --> 00:01:57.497 and able announcers in the business. Right. Shall it be ban or Mr Grauer? 00:01:57.530 --> 00:02:00.826 Who me? How 00:02:00.859 --> 00:02:04.967 so much diplomatic going on about here. Oh you mean that old devil 00:02:05.000 --> 00:02:08.517 protocol? That's right. You know the State Department has 63 officers. 00:02:08.550 --> 00:02:11.226 They've got a protocol officer and then there's an officer who sets up 00:02:11.259 --> 00:02:15.397 the protocol for the protocol of and go on adam. Well my name's growl. 00:02:15.430 --> 00:02:20.286 Which you mr brower howard. I'm very happy to see you again as I have at 00:02:20.319 --> 00:02:26.307 the NBC box in the opera house and as long as you had a ringside seat, 00:02:26.340 --> 00:02:29.517 give me your impression of the conference from the bald head straight on 00:02:29.550 --> 00:02:34.356 back to the minute you say bald head, one thinks inevitably of uh Pedro 00:02:34.389 --> 00:02:37.036 video. So the Foreign Minister of brazil who made his speech at the 00:02:37.069 --> 00:02:40.497 plenary session yesterday, you have to see him. I saw him there is without 00:02:40.530 --> 00:02:43.376 question, one of the most interesting looking gentleman and one of the 00:02:43.409 --> 00:02:47.006 boldest heads I ever saw science is like a dollar. You know those, those 00:02:47.039 --> 00:02:50.057 news real lights because they have to have so much illumination there to 00:02:50.090 --> 00:02:54.696 pick up the people on the platform from way back at the boxes are 00:02:54.729 --> 00:02:59.427 brilliant enough but when they reflected off the skilled rated cranium of 00:02:59.460 --> 00:03:03.307 Mr video. So it's a dazzling picture? Well, I felt really that I had 00:03:03.340 --> 00:03:06.106 something in common with some of the delegates as I look down on their 00:03:06.139 --> 00:03:09.027 heads. Well, you and I have still a little way to go. How? Well, I hope 00:03:09.060 --> 00:03:14.327 you're better off. I hope. Well, let's see uh, what do they talk about? 00:03:14.360 --> 00:03:18.117 Well, I, I'd like to have you give the audience your personal impression. 00:03:18.150 --> 00:03:21.136 Are you optimistic or are you like the rest of us wondering what's going 00:03:21.169 --> 00:03:25.606 to happen next about the conference? Yes, I think I'm optimistic. I think 00:03:25.639 --> 00:03:29.436 the hesitancy and jockeying of the past two days after all the conferences 00:03:29.469 --> 00:03:33.867 , physically only two days old, This is the 3rd full day of deliberations 00:03:33.900 --> 00:03:37.997 . I think they're not significant in the long run. I think it's a little 00:03:38.030 --> 00:03:41.846 feeling out for power and position among the three or four major powers 00:03:41.879 --> 00:03:45.656 that are here just kind of an establishment of personality. After all, 00:03:45.689 --> 00:03:51.017 Molotov is meeting Eden and eating is meeting song and song is meeting the 00:03:51.050 --> 00:03:56.636 others relatively for the first time in full steam because you alter and 00:03:56.669 --> 00:04:00.057 Tehran and Moscow were relatively smaller meetings and so they're just 00:04:00.090 --> 00:04:03.077 kind of feeling each other out and finding which way they're going. It's 00:04:03.110 --> 00:04:05.797 I'd say it's something like if you're taking a camping trip with a guy the 00:04:05.830 --> 00:04:08.666 first day or two, you kind of get to know him, You want to see how he 00:04:08.699 --> 00:04:11.846 shoots the rapids and how he handles the boat and then your pounds. But 00:04:11.879 --> 00:04:14.936 isn't it true that these fellas have all met before? Yes, they have met 00:04:14.969 --> 00:04:18.877 before, but they've met before in smaller groups. This is with the full 00:04:18.910 --> 00:04:21.577 import of these national delegations of each of the nations. They 00:04:21.610 --> 00:04:24.697 represent a lot of pressure on. There's a lot of pressure on everybody. I 00:04:24.730 --> 00:04:27.726 think the man is standing up beautifully under the pressure of undoubtedly 00:04:27.759 --> 00:04:32.176 focuses on him as uh Secretary Edward Stettinius. I saw him yesterday 00:04:32.209 --> 00:04:35.837 talked with him For about five minutes very informally after he finished 00:04:35.870 --> 00:04:40.496 his formal conference, the press and I noticed with his unseen face and 00:04:40.529 --> 00:04:42.897 brilliant manner that he's standing the pressure better than anyone, 00:04:42.930 --> 00:04:47.577 typically better than the press thinks that better than the radio. I'm 00:04:47.610 --> 00:04:51.106 bending myself a little bit and I don't know about you, but I suspect that 00:04:51.139 --> 00:04:55.786 you're beginning to have. Yeah, sure. Well, let's see the picture from the 00:04:55.819 --> 00:04:59.837 NBC booth in the golden horseshoe of the san Francisco Opera House. It 00:04:59.870 --> 00:05:03.106 puts us right in the center of the plenary sessions and gives you a real 00:05:03.139 --> 00:05:07.616 feeling of the, of the conference uh, just below us. We're on the first 00:05:07.649 --> 00:05:12.217 balcony or the row of boxes just about 10 or 15 ft below us is the floor 00:05:12.250 --> 00:05:16.596 of the convention conference auditorium itself. The Opera House were right 00:05:16.629 --> 00:05:19.846 in close with all the delegates. We can see Molotov bending over and 00:05:19.879 --> 00:05:23.217 talking to his interpreter if the speeches are in english right alongside 00:05:23.250 --> 00:05:27.647 the other aisle is Eden and just behind Eden, the american delegation 00:05:27.680 --> 00:05:31.166 Stassen and Dean Gildersleeve and so on. And you get a chance to get a 00:05:31.199 --> 00:05:35.327 feeling of informality with these men watching them as they watched the 00:05:35.360 --> 00:05:38.327 delegation watch the conference itself. You learned, I think from your 00:05:38.360 --> 00:05:41.897 point advantage, just how really human they are. They fidget sure that I 00:05:41.930 --> 00:05:46.467 saw it leaving you on yesterday. So that's one of them. Well, no, it was 00:05:46.500 --> 00:05:50.127 just, it was just a pause between one of the peroration of one of the 00:05:50.160 --> 00:05:54.036 speakers and some of it has to be sort of formal talk and so on until each 00:05:54.069 --> 00:05:56.926 of these delegations has made its formal presentation to the conference 00:05:56.959 --> 00:06:00.567 itself. Would you say that this is about the most tremendous thing you've 00:06:00.600 --> 00:06:04.176 ever covered? It's the biggest thing for me in many ways, naturally. I've 00:06:04.209 --> 00:06:07.536 never seen a conference like this. I think most of the members of the 00:06:07.569 --> 00:06:10.486 press and radio here haven't, there hasn't been anything like this since 00:06:10.519 --> 00:06:14.187 their side. And so most of them would be excluded the next score. It's the 00:06:14.220 --> 00:06:17.707 biggest thing I've ever seen. And also it's my first visit, not only to 00:06:17.740 --> 00:06:20.906 san Francisco but to the west. Incidentally you're missing atlantic 00:06:20.939 --> 00:06:23.746 spotlight, aren't you? Or your I heard the last three minutes of just a 00:06:23.779 --> 00:06:26.996 few minutes ago, one of the leap through the receiver and get in there and 00:06:27.029 --> 00:06:30.757 say hello Leslie Mitchell in London and to find gesture. Well I like the 00:06:30.790 --> 00:06:34.976 show very much. And, and uh I enjoy doing it. But as I say, this is the 00:06:35.009 --> 00:06:38.606 first time I've ever been in the west or in san Francisco. And this is a 00:06:38.639 --> 00:06:41.767 delightful place beautiful. The weather's been marvelous. Nice place to 00:06:41.800 --> 00:06:44.656 come when there's no conference. So we'll try that sometime. Well, thanks 00:06:44.689 --> 00:06:48.306 a lot man. Thank you. Howard Pyle 00:06:48.339 --> 00:06:54.147 friends. It's men like Ben Grauer, one of NBC's top staff announcers who 00:06:54.180 --> 00:06:59.127 make radios such a genuine pleasure in these modern and very eventful 00:06:59.160 --> 00:07:03.976 times. I hope you heard Ben Grauer is coverage of the opening plenary 00:07:04.009 --> 00:07:07.486 session of the United Nations conference directly from the War Memorial 00:07:07.519 --> 00:07:12.796 Opera House here in san Francisco. It was a masterpiece, a real tribute to 00:07:12.829 --> 00:07:18.007 the superb talent of this very personable young man 00:07:18.040 --> 00:07:22.777 during these past few days. I have spent many delightful hours with 00:07:22.810 --> 00:07:29.317 another personality. Well known to all of you john wall, the popular rich 00:07:29.350 --> 00:07:34.937 field reporter john it's very nice to see you here in san Francisco Howard. 00:07:34.970 --> 00:07:39.887 It's very pleasant seeing you again and renewing a lot of uh friendships 00:07:39.920 --> 00:07:44.296 and talking over the old days in Arizona the last time we saw each other I 00:07:44.329 --> 00:07:49.496 think was over in your sunshine state some several years ago, isn't it? I 00:07:49.529 --> 00:07:53.106 might say john that the folks in Arizona have never forgotten your visit 00:07:53.139 --> 00:07:57.697 And that of Wayne miller and I believe Don Forbes along too. That's right. 00:07:57.730 --> 00:08:00.947 You made a trip to Prescott. Did you not write? Made a trip to Prescott? 00:08:00.980 --> 00:08:07.926 We oh, I have pleasant memories of Prescott. We ah had a very fine 00:08:07.959 --> 00:08:14.387 luncheon in honor and were given a one of these copper. Well, it can be 00:08:14.420 --> 00:08:19.767 used as an ashtray as I am. Still have that around the house remind me of 00:08:19.800 --> 00:08:24.277 many pleasant days in Arizona. Well, it'll interest you to know that the 00:08:24.310 --> 00:08:27.827 Richfield reporter is just about the most popular newscast we have in 00:08:27.860 --> 00:08:32.766 Arizona. Well, that's very nicely. We Try, we put a lot of work in on it 00:08:32.799 --> 00:08:36.937 along with programming it on well last week, you know, we started our 15th 00:08:36.970 --> 00:08:41.967 year and you've been associated with it at all. I've been on for, well, I 00:08:42.000 --> 00:08:48.667 started my ninth year, so I'm getting to be an old man. Uh you don't look 00:08:48.700 --> 00:08:52.996 it at all. Your hair is just as red as it was the last time I saw you. You 00:08:53.029 --> 00:08:56.526 don't have it bleached out a little bit in that Arizona sun john what do 00:08:56.559 --> 00:09:00.537 you think of the conference? Well, hard to be perfectly honest. I came up 00:09:00.570 --> 00:09:06.177 here a little, perhaps a little cynical about it all. But when you sit in 00:09:06.210 --> 00:09:12.646 on those sessions and you actually see these men at work, you're truly 00:09:12.679 --> 00:09:18.937 convinced of their seriousness and they're well meaning I expected a lot 00:09:18.970 --> 00:09:25.067 of high sounding words and a lot of social activity And instead of that, 00:09:25.100 --> 00:09:30.356 these delegates are really getting down to work. And as the days go by, 00:09:30.389 --> 00:09:34.667 I'm becoming more and more optimistic that something really fine, we'll 00:09:34.700 --> 00:09:40.016 come out of this conference. That was particularly taken by the remarks of 00:09:40.049 --> 00:09:44.356 Deputy Prime Minister of Australia ford yesterday when he made us all 00:09:44.389 --> 00:09:49.667 realize that although the machinery is being set up, that they're on 00:09:49.700 --> 00:09:56.136 untried ground, practically, and it may take some time for the 00:09:56.169 --> 00:09:59.776 organization to be completed. He compared the framework of the 00:09:59.809 --> 00:10:05.837 organization, the Dumbarton oaks proposals and so on to our original 00:10:05.870 --> 00:10:12.167 constitution and the fact that our constitution was quite a model at that 00:10:12.200 --> 00:10:17.047 time. But within a matter of two years that were already Some four 00:10:17.080 --> 00:10:22.917 amendments to. So although we can't expect perfection. Perhaps in the 00:10:22.950 --> 00:10:27.157 first a few days of the working out of this world machinery, I'm positive 00:10:27.190 --> 00:10:31.896 that we are making a great stride toward a a better world. You're 00:10:31.929 --> 00:10:36.276 convinced them that the spirit of the thing is he all indeed, indeed. And 00:10:36.309 --> 00:10:41.907 when on the part of everyone, there's a lot of distress in the world of 00:10:41.940 --> 00:10:47.746 all nations. But Mhm. I think we're breaking that down. It's a uh you 00:10:47.779 --> 00:10:53.037 realize of course, what a terrific thrill it is to actually see these men 00:10:53.070 --> 00:10:58.016 you've been reading about and hearing about it was hard to convince myself 00:10:58.049 --> 00:11:01.886 that it wasn't just a Hollywood movie set that here were the great figures 00:11:01.919 --> 00:11:06.506 of the world setting up machinery for a better world and you know, john 00:11:06.539 --> 00:11:10.396 the thing that appeals to me most of all is the fact that every day more 00:11:10.429 --> 00:11:14.496 and more I discovered that they're just human beings like that's right. I 00:11:14.529 --> 00:11:18.217 mean, they're not superman about to make a few hours I suppose along the 00:11:18.250 --> 00:11:22.226 way. And as a result, be subject to all the criticisms that folks like us 00:11:22.259 --> 00:11:26.986 would toss at them without any regard whatsoever for their human nature 00:11:27.019 --> 00:11:30.876 and so forth. John how long do you expect to be, Iran? I doubt if we'll 00:11:30.909 --> 00:11:35.756 stay up here more than another week. I think in the first two weeks here 00:11:35.789 --> 00:11:39.327 we'll be able to cover the ground pretty well. It may be necessary later 00:11:39.360 --> 00:11:44.447 on if the conference drags out for many more weeks to come up again. And 00:11:44.480 --> 00:11:49.207 in other words, our job is to do as good a job as possible for our 00:11:49.240 --> 00:11:52.876 listeners. And if we're here on the spot way and perhaps give them a 00:11:52.909 --> 00:11:56.756 better picture of the conference than we could from Hollywood, I'll say 00:11:56.789 --> 00:11:59.947 this, you fellas have been hard at it. Wayne Miller has been standing over 00:11:59.980 --> 00:12:04.407 those teletypes here at NBC, just like it was a life and death matter. 00:12:04.440 --> 00:12:07.876 I've seen you in and around the conference so frequently that it's almost 00:12:07.909 --> 00:12:12.376 like old home week. Every time I come around a familiar pillar, john any 00:12:12.409 --> 00:12:17.587 special message for Arizona before we sign off well, uh, the weather here 00:12:17.620 --> 00:12:21.856 in san Francisco. Uh, now, now, now, now, now that it's really very bright 00:12:21.889 --> 00:12:26.957 and I'll admit that even as the stone to Arizona, well, I, I certainly do 00:12:26.990 --> 00:12:31.417 hope I get back to Arizona sometime again. Soon renewal out of the old 00:12:31.450 --> 00:12:36.307 friendships we made in our trips over there in the past and taking fresca. 00:12:36.340 --> 00:12:42.437 Two songs. Um, again, get to see you a lot of really fine fine people 00:12:42.470 --> 00:12:47.707 john, you'll always be welcome in Arizona. Thank you very much. 00:12:47.740 --> 00:12:53.207 Friends. John wall is one of the sincerest men I have ever known. He and 00:12:53.240 --> 00:12:57.896 his associates don Forbes and editor Wayne miller are widely recognized as 00:12:57.929 --> 00:13:02.626 one of the top news teams in the business. Whatever impressions they give 00:13:02.659 --> 00:13:06.136 you of the United Nations conference here in san Francisco can be relied 00:13:06.169 --> 00:13:10.986 upon to the absolute limit. Here is an interesting little story told to me 00:13:11.019 --> 00:13:14.376 the other afternoon by john walt the evening before. He had stopped for a 00:13:14.409 --> 00:13:18.506 moment in one of san Francisco's popular rendezvous. Standing near him was 00:13:18.539 --> 00:13:21.606 a way of lieutenant who smiled as he noticed her and said, do you mind if 00:13:21.639 --> 00:13:27.266 I talk to you? She said, I just arrived from Guam by plane, john pleased 00:13:27.299 --> 00:13:30.457 with her wholesome friendliness was tickled pink to have a chance to talk 00:13:30.490 --> 00:13:34.157 to her in a few minutes, another wave Lieutenant just in from Pearl Harbor 00:13:34.190 --> 00:13:38.476 joined the party in the conversation rolled merrily on. Soon an ensign 00:13:38.509 --> 00:13:42.356 stepped up, greeted the trio in a very gentlemanly manner and announced 00:13:42.389 --> 00:13:46.047 that it was the last evening of his leave. Where to now? Said one of the 00:13:46.080 --> 00:13:52.077 waves. Guam replied the instant. Oh! She said, I'll be there in about a 00:13:52.110 --> 00:13:56.577 week I think a week from sunday. How about a date quickly? Inquired the 00:13:56.610 --> 00:14:02.057 young officer. Okay, said she, just like that, john excused himself at 00:14:02.090 --> 00:14:05.677 that point and walked away, mumbling to himself. And I thought I was doing 00:14:05.710 --> 00:14:08.346 some traveling when I left Hollywood to cover the United Nations 00:14:08.379 --> 00:14:14.307 conference in san Francisco Friends, this is not yesterday's world, 00:14:14.340 --> 00:14:17.856 yesterday's traveled troubles. Yesterday's communication delays are a 00:14:17.889 --> 00:14:22.907 thing of the past. So our yesterdays impressions about banks and bankers 00:14:22.940 --> 00:14:26.317 Today. The Valley National Bank with its 20 friendly, convenient offices 00:14:26.350 --> 00:14:29.817 in Arizona is writing the very latest chapter of its kind in the record 00:14:29.850 --> 00:14:33.947 book of Arizona Business. No longer does. The smaller big businessman has 00:14:33.980 --> 00:14:37.437 to feel reluctant about discussions of financing. 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