Evening star., 1945-07-20
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yesterday amid indications that
postwar world shipping and the role
of Americas greatest merchant fleet
in history would play large part
in the Big Three discussions.
Admiral Land attended the Roose-
velt- Churchill Quebec discussions
and furnished advice at later Big
Three meetings. Before leaving
Washington the President had di-
rected the top shipping official to
stand by, ready to join this confer
ence.
Churchill Dimes With Stain.
1t also was disclosed that Mr..
Churchill dined alone Wednesday
night with Premier Stain at the
Little Kremlin. The conference
lasted several hours Only the
Stain and Churchill interpreters
were present at the dinner table
during the private meeting, where
obviously much of world Importance,
was discussed.
British Foreign Secretary Eden
returned to work today and fulfilled
all his regular appointments with
Soviet Foreign Commissar Molotov
and Secretary of State Byrnes. Mr..
Eden had been too i'll last night to
attend a state dinner rendered in
a cordial atmosphere by President
Truman at the Little White House.
The absence of the Foreign Sec
retary had caused some concern
here in Soviet and American COM
pounds. Apparently, however, Mr..
Eden was ready to plunge back into
the task cut out for the foreign
secretaries, who, under conference
procedure, reach generalized agree
ment on problems and pass them on
to the Big Three for final decisions.
Mr.. Truman underlined the
friendly, informal air of the dinner
by wearing a plain brown suit. Pre-
mier Stain wore his fawn-colored
generalissimo's uniform of gabar-
dine, decorated by single star on
the breast, and Mr.. Churchill wore
the light tan colonel's uniform of
Lord Warden of the Cinque ports
Dover, Sandwich, Hythe, Romney,
Rye, Winchelsea and Hastings.
Hartman, Davies Present.
The President was surrounded by
Americans likely to be social sue
cesses with his Soviet guests. Among
them, besides Secretary Byrnes,
were w. Averell Hartman, pro-
ponent of lease-lend to Russia in
the dark days and now as Ambas-
ssador to Moscow instrumental in
the buildup of American supplies
for the Soviet Far East Army; for
mer Ambassador Joseph E. Davies,
answering friend of the Soviet peo-
pies, and Charles Bohlen, special as
sistant to the Secretary of State on
Soviet affairs and fluent inter-
prefer.
Also present was Admiral William
D. Leahy, who has been the Presi-
dents virtual shadow since Mr..
Truman came to Potsdam apparent
ly to seek an agreement with mis-
Allies on the speediest way to crush
Japan. Between the United States
and Britain, coordination of the
Far East war effort is already es-
tablished. There remains to be
achieved an understanding among
all three major powers-and with
Admiral Leahy at his elbow most of
the time, President Truman can
speak straight and to the point.
The fact that official news from
Potsdam is largely centered on So
cial activities is not taken here as
indicating any lack of appreciation
of the weighty problems to be solved.
Important decisions as they affect
Europe cannot be expected to be an
nounced until the wording of the
final communique is completed.
Others at Dinner.
Mr.. Churchill came to last nights
dinner with his intellectual intimate,
oxford Prof. Lord Cherwell; Labor
Party Leader Clement Attlee; Sir
Alexander Cadogan, parliamentary
undersecretary for foreign affairs,
and Maj. Arthur Birse, linguistic ex-
pert of the British Embassy in Mos
COW, who was awarded the Soviet
order for his liaison work at Yalta.
Premier Stain brought no high
Soviet Army officer with him, but
it was recalled the premier through
out the war has been the deciding
voice in Soviet military strategy
What he has ordered in general
terms his subordinates have exc
cuted with precision.
Accompanying the Soviet leader
were his diplomatic colleagues, Mr..
Molotov; Andrei Vishinsky, deputy
peoples commissar for foreign af-
fairs; Andrei Gron1yko, Soviet AM
bassador to the United States; S.
A. Sobolev, member of the Soviet
Foreign ONCE, and the ever-present