Evening star., 1945-07-16
Big Three
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most pressing of these, of course, is
the future of conquered Germany.
Premier Stain and Mr.. Molotov
at preceding Big Three meetings
have succeeded in getting the United
States and Britain to underwrite
Soviet policies in Europe.
Asia, which stretches from the
Dardanelles to the Bering Straits
off Alaska. now will contribute its
shares of issues, of which the ma
jority may have to be put of for
still another Big Three session
Russia and Japan are bound by
treaty to nonaggression until next
April.
Cooperation Urged.
Paul Wandel, chief editor of the
German Communist publication,
Deutsche Volks zeitung, wrote: 1--WE
have no individual party interests
any more All anti-Fascist demo-
cratic parties are united now and
seek permission from all the Allies
to cooperate in the rebuilding of
German life on a new basis. We
hope that permission will be forth
coming from Potsdam."
Wandel recently returned to Ber-
lin from exile in Moscow.
President Truman, bronzed and at
the peak of vitality after an eight
Gay Atlantic crossing during which
he mixed work with relaxation, was
ready to talk business at once with
Mr.. Churchill and Premier Stain
He is reported in favor of brief,
generalized reports by himself and
the other two conferees as progress
of the conference warrants.
The Presidents reported plan to
visit London after the meeting was
described as wholly tentative, and
he will not visit France. 1t was re-
ported that should the conference be
prolonged unduly, the President
would return Immediately to Wash
ington, where he would report
promptly to Congress on the meeting.
Meets With Byrnes.
The Presidents associates said he
met with Secretary Byrnes yester-
day Immediately after the arrival
of their separate planes from Brus-
sells, where they had been driven oy
automobile after the cruiser Augusta,
on which they crossed the Atlantic,
docked at Antwerp. Secretary of
War Stimson also is at Potsdam for
the conference.
After a strenuous day. which in
cluded acknowledgment of greet
ings from thousands lining the
streets of Antwerp and Brussels,
President Truman retired last
night shortly after 10 o'clock.
Mr.. Churchill arrived in Potsdam
shortly after the President. Mr..
Truman dined with his press sec
retary, Charles G. Ross; members
of his staff and Secretary Byrnes.
He conferred briefly with Gen.
George c. Marshall, chief of staff,
and Admiral Ernest j. King.
The European greetings to the
American Chief Executive, which
had begun with a salute by seven
British men of war on his arrival
in British waters, continued through
the arrival at Potsdam. During the
trip from Antwerp to Brussels vii
layers lining the route waved hope
fully to him.
Gen. Eisenhower and Admiral
Harold r. Stark, commander of
United States naval forces in
Europe, had met the President on
the deck of the cruiser and accom-
panied him as far as Brussels.
Witnesses Destruction.
Mr.. Truman was reported amazed
by the evidence of destruction he
saw during his flight yesterday across
the Rhine near Coblenz and over
Kassel and other German cities. He
was interested in the signs of agri-
cultural activity he saw in scattered
areas.
The scene of the Big Three meet.
ing, the former castle of the Kaiser,
is '.the kind of a place you'd like
to take a summer vacation at-if
you could afford it." according to an
American photographer who was
allowed to take pictures of it a few
days ago.
Its got gardens and woods and
a lake shore and the best of every
thing" said the photographer,
Charles T. Hacker, whose photo
graphs for the combined American