The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-02

tination" following the Anglo-Amer-
lean Chinese conference, but dis
patch published in Lisbon news
paper reported they already had be-
gun conversations with Stain in
Teheran, capital of Iran Persia).
(American congressional circles
accepted reports of a Roosevelt
Churchill conference with Stain as
completely factual0
Laurence Steinhardt, u. s., Am
bassador to Turkey, was reported
by Lisbon also to have flown to
Teheran. There has been widespread
speculation that the Allies may pre-
vail upon Turkey to grant them
bases for an Anglo-American inva-
sion to hberate the Balkans in con-
junction with a Soviet drive from
the Southern Ukraine.
If later developments confirm
Stains presence at a conference
with Mr.. Roosevelt and Churchill,
it will be the first time in 81 years
that the Soviet leader has left the
borders of Russia.
The apparent success OF the Cairo
conference and its pledge to strip
Japan of all territory gained by her
since 1895, including Manchuria,
Formosa, the Pescadores, Korea and
the japanese Pacific Island out
posts, buoyed hopes among
European diplomats that Germany
would ge handed death sentence
equally clear.
Second front" considerations
were expected to play little part in
any Roosevelt Churchill Stain
meeting, since it can be assumed
that Anglo-American plans for an
invasion Of western Europe at the
earliest possible moment already are
we'll advanced. The approximate
date of the invasion presumably
was conveyed to Russia by U. s.
Secretary Of State Cordell Hull and
British Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eden during the tri-power confer
ence at Moscow.
Instead, the three heads of state
probably will fix the approximate
terms for Germany's unconditional
surrender and postwar treatment
so that the Allies will not be caught
without adequate plans in the event
of Germany's sudden and uneXpect-
ed collapse from within, as they
were when Italy surrendered.
Ultimatum
The conferees may frame an uti-
maturn demanding Germany's i'm
mediate capitalization on pain of In
creasing severe terms if the Ger
mans persist in their policy of
scorched earth retreats, wherein
everything useful for human life is
destroyed and the civilian popula-
ton either are left destitute or
herded to Germany for slave labor.
Continental diplomats always Sus-
pected that Hitler in final spaSm
would try to destroy everything in
the event of his ultimate downfall,
but no one realized the extent to
which the Nazis were prepared to
go until the Wehrmacht began its
retreat in Russia.
The German plan appeared to be
to denude occupied Europe Of all
its able bodied mnapower by muir
der, manning and sterilization to
delay its recovery and give Ger
many a head start in preparations
for new World War 10 to Is
years hence.
Rehab itatiOn
To speed the rehabilitation of the
occupied countries and at the same
time prevent Germany from pre-
pairing for another war, Mr.. Roose-
welt, Churchill and Stain were OK
pected to seek to Quarantine the
Reich by a strict system OF controls
that will occupy all her manpoWer,
materials and production IN pre-
pairing the destruction the Germans
have wrought.
Russia, as chief suffered, was like
ly to put the matter high on the
agenda of the tri-power conference,
though the smaller nations were be-
neved equally anxious to make Ger
many pay for what she has smashed.
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Axis reports have suggested that
Eduard Benes, president OF the
Czech exile government, would at
tend any tri-power conference at
the express wish of Stain. Czecho-
slovakia and Poland. next to Rus
STA, probably have suffered most ufl-
der German occupation.