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Good evening friends. This is Howard Pyle reporting for the Valley
National Bank to the people of Arizona, directly from the United Nations
conference in san Francisco By now, most all of you know what brought me
to the city by the Golden Gate for this all important gathering of
representatives from the 46 United Nations of the World recognizing the
urgency of this historic meeting. The Valley National Bank. Reason that
someone from Arizona should attend someone who could offer a series of
daily observations that would keep every citizen of our state in close
personal touch with the spirit and purpose of this vital conference.
Without the slightest hesitation, the arrangements were completed and for
a week now at 7:45 each morning I have been privileged to send you my
personal impressions of what has been going on here. What a pleasure it is
to do business with an organization that is constantly on the alert for
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which your bank should be and is at your service for me. This has been one
of those days will never forget and before I say goodnight to you, I'm
going to tell you why many of you will be especially interested. I know
right now I want you to meet by transcription. One of the most charming
and able announcers in the business. Right. Shall it be ban or Mr Grauer?
Who me? How
so much diplomatic going on about here. Oh you mean that old devil
protocol? That's right. You know the State Department has 63 officers.
They've got a protocol officer and then there's an officer who sets up
the protocol for the protocol of and go on adam. Well my name's growl.
Which you mr brower howard. I'm very happy to see you again as I have at
the NBC box in the opera house and as long as you had a ringside seat,
give me your impression of the conference from the bald head straight on
back to the minute you say bald head, one thinks inevitably of uh Pedro
video. So the Foreign Minister of brazil who made his speech at the
plenary session yesterday, you have to see him. I saw him there is without
question, one of the most interesting looking gentleman and one of the
boldest heads I ever saw science is like a dollar. You know those, those
news real lights because they have to have so much illumination there to
pick up the people on the platform from way back at the boxes are
brilliant enough but when they reflected off the skilled rated cranium of
Mr video. So it's a dazzling picture? Well, I felt really that I had
something in common with some of the delegates as I look down on their
heads. Well, you and I have still a little way to go. How? Well, I hope
you're better off. I hope. Well, let's see uh, what do they talk about?
Well, I, I'd like to have you give the audience your personal impression.
Are you optimistic or are you like the rest of us wondering what's going
to happen next about the conference? Yes, I think I'm optimistic. I think
the hesitancy and jockeying of the past two days after all the conferences
, physically only two days old, This is the 3rd full day of deliberations
. I think they're not significant in the long run. I think it's a little
feeling out for power and position among the three or four major powers
that are here just kind of an establishment of personality. After all,
Molotov is meeting Eden and eating is meeting song and song is meeting the
others relatively for the first time in full steam because you alter and
Tehran and Moscow were relatively smaller meetings and so they're just
kind of feeling each other out and finding which way they're going. It's
I'd say it's something like if you're taking a camping trip with a guy the
first day or two, you kind of get to know him, You want to see how he
shoots the rapids and how he handles the boat and then your pounds. But
isn't it true that these fellas have all met before? Yes, they have met
before, but they've met before in smaller groups. This is with the full
import of these national delegations of each of the nations. They
represent a lot of pressure on. There's a lot of pressure on everybody. I
think the man is standing up beautifully under the pressure of undoubtedly
focuses on him as uh Secretary Edward Stettinius. I saw him yesterday
talked with him For about five minutes very informally after he finished
his formal conference, the press and I noticed with his unseen face and
brilliant manner that he's standing the pressure better than anyone,
typically better than the press thinks that better than the radio. I'm
bending myself a little bit and I don't know about you, but I suspect that
you're beginning to have. Yeah, sure. Well, let's see the picture from the
NBC booth in the golden horseshoe of the san Francisco Opera House. It
puts us right in the center of the plenary sessions and gives you a real
feeling of the, of the conference uh, just below us. We're on the first
balcony or the row of boxes just about 10 or 15 ft below us is the floor
of the convention conference auditorium itself. The Opera House were right
in close with all the delegates. We can see Molotov bending over and
talking to his interpreter if the speeches are in english right alongside
the other aisle is Eden and just behind Eden, the american delegation
Stassen and Dean Gildersleeve and so on. And you get a chance to get a
feeling of informality with these men watching them as they watched the
delegation watch the conference itself. You learned, I think from your
point advantage, just how really human they are. They fidget sure that I
saw it leaving you on yesterday. So that's one of them. Well, no, it was
just, it was just a pause between one of the peroration of one of the
speakers and some of it has to be sort of formal talk and so on until each
of these delegations has made its formal presentation to the conference
itself. Would you say that this is about the most tremendous thing you've
ever covered? It's the biggest thing for me in many ways, naturally. I've
never seen a conference like this. I think most of the members of the
press and radio here haven't, there hasn't been anything like this since
their side. And so most of them would be excluded the next score. It's the
biggest thing I've ever seen. And also it's my first visit, not only to
san Francisco but to the west. Incidentally you're missing atlantic
spotlight, aren't you? Or your I heard the last three minutes of just a
few minutes ago, one of the leap through the receiver and get in there and
say hello Leslie Mitchell in London and to find gesture. Well I like the
show very much. And, and uh I enjoy doing it. But as I say, this is the
first time I've ever been in the west or in san Francisco. And this is a
delightful place beautiful. The weather's been marvelous. Nice place to
come when there's no conference. So we'll try that sometime. Well, thanks
a lot man. Thank you. Howard Pyle
friends. It's men like Ben Grauer, one of NBC's top staff announcers who
make radios such a genuine pleasure in these modern and very eventful
times. I hope you heard Ben Grauer is coverage of the opening plenary
session of the United Nations conference directly from the War Memorial
Opera House here in san Francisco. It was a masterpiece, a real tribute to
the superb talent of this very personable young man
during these past few days. I have spent many delightful hours with
another personality. Well known to all of you john wall, the popular rich
field reporter john it's very nice to see you here in san Francisco Howard.
It's very pleasant seeing you again and renewing a lot of uh friendships
and talking over the old days in Arizona the last time we saw each other I
think was over in your sunshine state some several years ago, isn't it? I
might say john that the folks in Arizona have never forgotten your visit
And that of Wayne miller and I believe Don Forbes along too. That's right.
You made a trip to Prescott. Did you not write? Made a trip to Prescott?
We oh, I have pleasant memories of Prescott. We ah had a very fine
luncheon in honor and were given a one of these copper. Well, it can be
used as an ashtray as I am. Still have that around the house remind me of
many pleasant days in Arizona. Well, it'll interest you to know that the
Richfield reporter is just about the most popular newscast we have in
Arizona. Well, that's very nicely. We Try, we put a lot of work in on it
along with programming it on well last week, you know, we started our 15th
year and you've been associated with it at all. I've been on for, well, I
started my ninth year, so I'm getting to be an old man. Uh you don't look
it at all. Your hair is just as red as it was the last time I saw you. You
don't have it bleached out a little bit in that Arizona sun john what do
you think of the conference? Well, hard to be perfectly honest. I came up
here a little, perhaps a little cynical about it all. But when you sit in
on those sessions and you actually see these men at work, you're truly
convinced of their seriousness and they're well meaning I expected a lot
of high sounding words and a lot of social activity And instead of that,
these delegates are really getting down to work. And as the days go by,
I'm becoming more and more optimistic that something really fine, we'll
come out of this conference. That was particularly taken by the remarks of
Deputy Prime Minister of Australia ford yesterday when he made us all
realize that although the machinery is being set up, that they're on
untried ground, practically, and it may take some time for the
organization to be completed. He compared the framework of the
organization, the Dumbarton oaks proposals and so on to our original
constitution and the fact that our constitution was quite a model at that
time. But within a matter of two years that were already Some four
amendments to. So although we can't expect perfection. Perhaps in the
first a few days of the working out of this world machinery, I'm positive
that we are making a great stride toward a a better world. You're
convinced them that the spirit of the thing is he all indeed, indeed. And
when on the part of everyone, there's a lot of distress in the world of
all nations. But Mhm. I think we're breaking that down. It's a uh you
realize of course, what a terrific thrill it is to actually see these men
you've been reading about and hearing about it was hard to convince myself
that it wasn't just a Hollywood movie set that here were the great figures
of the world setting up machinery for a better world and you know, john
the thing that appeals to me most of all is the fact that every day more
and more I discovered that they're just human beings like that's right. I
mean, they're not superman about to make a few hours I suppose along the
way. And as a result, be subject to all the criticisms that folks like us
would toss at them without any regard whatsoever for their human nature
and so forth. John how long do you expect to be, Iran? I doubt if we'll
stay up here more than another week. I think in the first two weeks here
we'll be able to cover the ground pretty well. It may be necessary later
on if the conference drags out for many more weeks to come up again. And
in other words, our job is to do as good a job as possible for our
listeners. And if we're here on the spot way and perhaps give them a
better picture of the conference than we could from Hollywood, I'll say
this, you fellas have been hard at it. Wayne Miller has been standing over
those teletypes here at NBC, just like it was a life and death matter.
I've seen you in and around the conference so frequently that it's almost
like old home week. Every time I come around a familiar pillar, john any
special message for Arizona before we sign off well, uh, the weather here
in san Francisco. Uh, now, now, now, now, now that it's really very bright
and I'll admit that even as the stone to Arizona, well, I, I certainly do
hope I get back to Arizona sometime again. Soon renewal out of the old
friendships we made in our trips over there in the past and taking fresca.
Two songs. Um, again, get to see you a lot of really fine fine people
john, you'll always be welcome in Arizona. Thank you very much.
Friends. John wall is one of the sincerest men I have ever known. He and
his associates don Forbes and editor Wayne miller are widely recognized as
one of the top news teams in the business. Whatever impressions they give
you of the United Nations conference here in san Francisco can be relied
upon to the absolute limit. Here is an interesting little story told to me
the other afternoon by john walt the evening before. He had stopped for a
moment in one of san Francisco's popular rendezvous. Standing near him was
a way of lieutenant who smiled as he noticed her and said, do you mind if
I talk to you? She said, I just arrived from Guam by plane, john pleased
with her wholesome friendliness was tickled pink to have a chance to talk
to her in a few minutes, another wave Lieutenant just in from Pearl Harbor
joined the party in the conversation rolled merrily on. Soon an ensign
stepped up, greeted the trio in a very gentlemanly manner and announced
that it was the last evening of his leave. Where to now? Said one of the
waves. Guam replied the instant. Oh! She said, I'll be there in about a
week I think a week from sunday. How about a date quickly? Inquired the
young officer. Okay, said she, just like that, john excused himself at
that point and walked away, mumbling to himself. And I thought I was doing
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