Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-13

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all three piled into a jeep.
A picturesque guard Of honor
came crisply to attention. A band
played 1.-THE Star Spangled Banner
"God Save the King" and the Rus
sian national air.
The President Of the United
States and the Prime Minister of
Britain had arrived in the Crimea
for eight days of fateful consulta-
ton with Marshal Joseph v
Stain on winning the war and pre-
serving the peace.
The jeep took them to line of
limousines - Lincoln sedans - and
they bundled themselves into blank
cts and started out for Yalta, which
used to be the swakiest resort on
Russia's Riviera"
It was a five hour tour over 81
miles of narrow, rough trails that
took hairpin turns through tumbled,
snow-tipped mountains.
Many of the sentries along the
way were girls of IA or Is and
women of so or so, uniformed and
shouldering rifles to take the places
of menfolk away at the fighting
| fronts.
Stain Arrives Later
Mr.. Roosevelt and Churchill
reached Yalta ahead of Stain.
1t was not until the next day
that the Soviet Premier came over
to Livadia Palace, which was Amer
lean headquarters and the scene of
all the conferences.
About mile and a half south of
Yalta, Livadia once was the sum-
mer residence of Tsar Nicholas II.
It has been converted into a rest
home for tuberculous patients by
the Soviets.
1t was preserved during this war
because it served the German high
command as headquarters, but the
Germans looted 1t Of everything
movable except two pictures which
hung in the Presidents bedroom.
Completed in 1911, it is a two
story building of stone, with nu-
merous colonnades and high win
dows.
To one side are the foot
peaks of the Yaila Mountains, to
the other the waters of the Black
Sea. Snow was on the mountains,
but flowers were beginning to bloom
down by the sea. 1t was topcoat
weather but pleasant enough for
the Russians to call it Roosevelt
weather"
The Chief Executives quarters, on
the first floor, were those once used
by Nicholas and his son Alexei. Mr..
Roosevelt's dining room formerly
was a billiard room. Nicholas. in
constant fear of assassination, never
slept in the same bedroom two
nights in row and sometimes
changed in the middle Of the night.
Mr.. Roosevelt stayed put.
Talks to Stain an Hour.
Stain and the President chatted
for perhaps an hour before the first
session of the second conference Of
the Big Three buckled down to bust
ness at pm. February 4.
They had much to talk about.
Fourteen months packed with his
tory making events had elapsed
since the trio's only other meeting,
at Tehran. Some of these events
dictated another parley.
With the Allies battling on Ger
man soil both in the east and the
west, there was need for closer tao
tical coordination. That was at
least partly attained at Yalta. Rus
STA for the first time loosened up on
military data and secrets. BY the
time the talks ended, agreements
had been reached on:
/. The daily trading of informa-
ton among the armies of Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower In the west,
Allied forces in italy and the Red
armies in the east.
2. More effective distribution Of
material and transportation to all
the Allies.
8. Detailed plans for the timing
and scope of sledgehammer blows
at the heart of Germany.
4. Weather prospects. (These en-
tered prominently in the tactical
discussions.)
Political issues demanded as
loudly as military problems that
there be another meeting.
Left over from the Dumbarton
Oaks conference in Washington was
a decision on how members of a
proposed world security council
would vote.
In addition, the world had
watched disturbing conditions de-
velop in Poland. Italy, Greece and
Yugoslavia-and the major Allies
had no clearcut joint plan for
handling them.
France and Russia had negotiated
an alliance that made no mention
Of adhering to an international Sc
curity organization.
People Of U. s. Murmuring.
The American people had begun
murmuring about power politics."
"unilateral action" spheres OF in
f1uence." Many felt the peace was
being lost before the war was won.
Men at the top in Washington
the President included--considered
that this feeling might grow to
where 1t could jeopardize this coun-
try's chances Of playing a leading
role in world organization.
Government leaders had an idea
what they would like to see In