Evening star., 1942-08-17
Churchill Stain and Hartman
Reach Decisions in Moscow Talks;
Nazis Peril More Red Oil Fields
Prime Minister
Flown to Russia
By u. S. Pilots
By the Associated Press.


MOSCOW, Aug. 17.-Primt
Minister Churchill of Britain ha'
concluded a four-day trip tt
Moscow in which he and JOSEPH
Stain reached secret decisions
In conjunction with United
States generals and statesmen
on stopping and defeating the
Germans, it was disclosed off,
cially today.
American pilots flew the Prime
Minister and his Anglo American
party to Moscow in three big Con-
solidated Liberator (B-24) bombers.
They arrived on the afternoon of
August IL and departed yesterday
morning.
Hartman Attends Parleys.
W. Averell Hartman attended the
conferences as President Roosevelt S
personal representative.
Communiques issued here and in
London this afternoon, following Mr..
Churchill's departure from Soviet
soil, said the conferences had result
ed In a number of decisions on the
conduct of the war and that the
existing understandings between
Russia, Great Britain and the United
States had been reaffirmed in an
atmosphere of cordially and COM
plete sincerity"
A source close to the British Prime
Minister, when asked what the con-
ferences were about, replied:
ANY child in the street should
know the answer to that"
TIE fact that the United States,
Britain and Russia were in agree
ment on the urgency of establishing
a second front in Europe this year
was announced this spring following
Soviet Commissar Molotov's trips to
both London and Washington.
Twenty persons-including six
Americans-were in the Churchill
party on this first journey by
British Prime Minister to the Soviet
Union.
They included Gen. Sir Archibald
p. Wavell, the British commander
in-chief in India, and Maj. Gen.
Russell P. Maxwell, United States
commander in the Near East.
The text of the communique fol-
lows:
For reasons of safety no an
nouncement of the visit could be
announced until today.
Negotiations have taken place in
Moscow between the President of
the Council of Peoples Commissars
of the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics. j. v. Stain, and the
Prime Minister of United Kingdom,
i1r. Winston Churchill, in which Mr..
Hartman, representing the Presi-
dent of the United States, parti-
cipated.
Participants of Talks.
There took part in the discus
lions:
Peoples Commissar for Foreign
Affairs v. M. Molotov, and the pro-
cureur general, Marshal K. E. Vo-
roshilov, from the Soviet side; the
British Ambassador, Sir A. Clark
Kerr, the chief of the imperial gen.
eral staff, Sir A. Brooke, and other
responsible representatives of Brit
ish armed forces and the permanent
undersecretary of state for foreign
affairs, Sir A. Cadogan, from the
British side.
"A numebr of decisions were
reached covering the field of the war
against Hitlerite Germany and her
associates in Europe. This just war
Of liberation both governments are
determined to carry on with all
their power and energy until COM
plete destruction of Hitlerism and
any similar tyranny has been
achieved.
THE discussions, which were car
ried on in atmosphere of cordiality
and complete sincerity, provided an
opportunity Of reafflrming the exist
ence of close friendship and under
standing between the Soviet Union,
the United Kingdom and the United
States of America in entire accord
ance with the Allied relationship
existing between them"
Earlier Visits by Statesmen.
These conferences followed earlier
visits between United Nations states
men. Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eden of Britain last winter paid a
visit to the Soviet Union, and For
eign Commisar Molotov repaid the
visit when he signed the British
Soviet alliance May 26.
Subsequently Molotov journeyed to
Washington, where he saw President
Roosevelt, and after he had returned
to his homeland simultaneous an
nquncements in London and Wash
3nston disclosed that the alliance
had been signed and that the lead
ers of Britain, Russia and the
United States were in agreement on
the urgency Of establishing a second
front against Adolf Hitler in 1912