Evening star., 1941-09-05
American Embassy
In Moscow Prepares
For Tripartife Talk
AneIo-U. S. Delegations
Program Remains in
Tentative Form
BY A. T. STEELE,
Foreign Correspondent of The Star and
Chicago Daily News.

Chicago Daily News.
MOSCOW, Sept. 5.-With the dis
closure of President RooSevelts S
appointeeS to the impending three
power conference here, the Amer
ican Embassy has got down to work
on preparations. The arrival of
more than a dozen Americans IN
one batch will be momentous event
for the small American colony In
Moscow which numbers no more
than 30-nearly all diplomats and
newspapermen.
The program of the Anglo
American delegation still is in the
most tentative stage. Since the
general objectives and agenda for
the three-power meeting are clearly
delineated the delegates will be able
to group themselves into commit
tees and work out the details Of a
long-range program for pooling their
nations resources to beat Adolf
Hitler.
Relations Need Cementing.
The situation is ripe for a tri-
partite confab. 1t will take big men
TO oil and accelerate the wheels OF
cooperation between this Bolshevik
state and the two great democracies.
1t will take big men to cement rela-
tions as they must be cemented TO
obtain maximum results from the
three-way cooperation. There are
many fences to be mended, many
preiudices on all sides to be broken
down.
The task of the mission will be
as much one of enlisting good will
and confidence as of drafting and
signing contracts. Most Of what
has been done so far between Soviet
Russia on the one hand and Great
Britain on the other is of stopgap
nature. A good beginning toward
genuine understanding was made
with Lease Lend Administrator
Harry L. Hopkins visit Much labor
is ahead if the three-Way partner
ship is to be made more than simply
a marriage of convenience.
Much Spadework Done.
The delegates to the Moscow con-
ference will be obliged to start pretty
much from scratch on their long
range program, though the British
economic mission here, under the
! leadership of Lawrence Cadbury, the
English chocolate king, has done 6
great deal of spadework toward de.
/ termining RusSia's basic needs anc
/ the extent to which this nation il
/ able to meet Anglo-American re-
quirements.
Steadily growing Soviet realiza-
| tion of the importance of close
Anglo-S Soviet American cooperation
| is reflected in the increasing atten-
.tion to this subject being given by
the Soviet press and the larger space
being accorded news from Great
Britain and the United States. Tht
latest issue of the Moscow News de,
votes the whole front page to this
subject and comments in the fol.
lowing vein:
History tells us that the outcome
/ Of war depends, in the flna
analysis, on the potential power o.
the belligerents and the strength ot
| either side at the outset. This iror
rule Of history means that victory
depends on the industrial power, size
OF population and natural wealth
/ of the belligerents. In this respect
q II tho q dyro 70 lie yuritl1 tIa
Hitlerite coalition.
Moral Factor With Allies.
! Then there is the moral factor
that reinforces the spirit of peoples
fighting in a righteous cause. This
factor is not. and could not be. with
Hitlerite Germany. 1t is wholly or
the side of the anti-Hitlerite front
| AS the war develops, the index of the
| forces of coalition. is constantly
rising whereas that of the German
Fascist Army inevitably drops.
Against Hitler and his vassals
MuSsolini, Antonescu, Darlan, Horthy
TiSo, Quisling, Mannerheim anc
other traitors who bartered away
the blood of their own people, stands
the great coalition of liberty anc
democracy. This coalition is led by
the three biggest powers in the
world. They have vowed to one
another and the whole world tc
unite all their resources to crush
Hitlerism, to destroy this hell or
earth, and to liberate mankind from
the baneful clutches of brown death
This VOW will be kept; it will be
fulfilled with all speed and effec-
| tiveneSs.'
(Copyright. 1941, Chicago Daily News. Inc ,