Evening star., 1944-09-11
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And Churchill
Quebec Conference
Nay Deal Largely
With War on Jops
By JOSEPH H. BAIRD,
Star Staff Correspondent

Roosevelt and Prime Minister
Churchill arrived here today and
Immediately began their 11th
conference of the war amid
strong indications that it will
deal primarily with final plans
for the defeat of Japan.
This was implied by Stephen T.
Early, secretary to the President.
who told newspapermen that the
talks Mr.. Roosevelt recently held at
Pearl Harbor with Admiral Chester
w. Nimitz and Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur might be considered a vital
preliminary to his present meeting
with the British Prime Minister.
However. this dues not rule out
the extreme probability that plans
for dealing with Germany after the
downfall of the Hitler regime also
will have prominent place on their
agenda.
Both the President and the Prime
Minister, accompanied by their
wives. arrived on special trains
which reached Wolfes Cove in the
suburbs of Quebec about 10 am.
They were driven to the citadel,
summer residence of the governor
general of Canadian ancient for
tress set high above the ST. Law
renee.
Receives Military Honors.
There Mr.. Roosevelt received full
military honors from a guard of
honor commanded by 1t r. J. East
man. Royal Canadian Navy, and in
cluding components of the Cana
dian Army, Navy and Air Force. As
he drove up in his car, accompanied
by the Earle of Athlone, Governor
General of Canada. the unit pre-
sented arms and a Canadian Army
band played The Star Spangled
Banner"
Mr.. Churchill, accompanied by
Prime Minister Mackenzie King of
Canada, rode in the car following
that of the President, while Mrs.
Roosevelt, Mrs. Churchill and Lady
Alice, wife of the Earl of Athlone,
followed in a third car.
After the American national an
them had been played, Mr. Church.
i'll and Mr.. King walked to the
Presidents car and the troops pre-
sented arms for second time. To
the surprise of some observers, the
band did not follow the American
anthem with God Save the King"
1t was explained that this seeming
lapse of protocol was due to the
fact that neither Mr.. Church nor
Mr., King is the head of a state.
The Presidents special train was
the first to arrive, reaching the rail-
road siding at Wolfe's Cove, near the
Canadian Pacific docks at $40 am.
The special bearing Mr.. Churchill,
who arrived at Halifax yesterday
by boat from England, came into
Quebec about Is minutes later.
Formal Reception at Citadel.
Mr.. King and the Earl of Athlone
were the first to enter the Presi-
dents railroad car, greeting him,
Mrs. Roosevelt and his staff warmly.
They were followed by various Ca
madam officials. The President then
left the train and entered his auto
mobile where the Prime Minister
met him few minutes later after
his special had pulled in.
The automobile convoy, closely
guarded by both American and Ca
madam police officials, then moved
on the Citadel for the formal re-
ception.
Mr.. Roosevelt was accompanied
by Admiral William Leahy, his chief
of staff; Gen. George c. Marshall.
Army chief of staff; Admiral Ernest
j. King, chief of naval operations,
and Gen. H. H. Arnold, chief of the
Army Air Forces. in addition to
members of their staffs and a large
corps of White House attaches.
These latter included Maj. Gen.
Edwin M. Watson. the Presidents
military aide, and Vice Admiral
Ross T. Mcintyre, Mr.. Roosevelt's
personal physician.
News Held Up for Hours.
Newspapermen were taken in
buses to the citadel to witness the
arrival of the Anglo-American
chiefs and the ceremony of well
come. Official release of the fact
that the two had arrived in Quebec
was held up for nearly an hour until
an announcement was made at press
headquarters of the conference,
which have been established in the
Chateau Frotenac. a few hundred
yards down the St. Lawrence from
the citadel. The announcement
said:
THE President and Mr.. Churchill,
accompanied by their STATS, have
arrived in Quebec where they are
holding conference on the future
conduct of the war Mr.. Mackenzie
King, with whom Mr.. Churchill and
the British STATS will also confer,
welcomed them on behalf of the
Canadian government"
Mr. Early then talked briefly to
the assembled newspapermen, point
ing out significantly that the confer
ence here could be considered a fol-
lowup to the Pearl Harbor confer
ences.
Military Subjects Uppermost.
Mr.. Early said that the conference
would deal entirely with military
subjects and for that reason might
not be productive of a large flow
of news. He added. however, that
he and other attaches would keep
in touch with the principals and try
to make available all possible in
formation.
Mrs Roosevelt, he said, accom-
panied the President primarily be-
cause Mrs. Churchill came here with
the Prime Minister.
It can be said that Premier
Stain was invited, but declined be-
cause of pressing duties attendant