Evening star., 1945-02-20

Qeflt Ro0SeDeLtS movements toL-
lo,ufng the Ydlta conference t0aS
made public at the White House
today His meeting Nth King
Ibn Saud OF Arabia is described
on Page H.
The President, with members ol
his immediate party, left Livadis
in the afternoon, motoring ovel
mountain roads along the Black Sea
to Sevastopol, where they spent the
night aboard United States Navy
auxiliary ship. The route took the
party over battlefield nearly a cen.
tury old, where the historic Light
Brigade made its famous charge In
the Crimean War of 1854-56. Fol
many miles the roadway led through
territory bitterly contested by Rus
sian and German armies in the re-
cent Crimean campaigns.
At Sevastopol the President saw
scenes of stark destruction by the
Germans. The city was virtually
leveled to the ground except for
walls of homes and buildings which
mines, bombs and guns in recent
battles left standing like billboards
mute testimony of horrorful, wanton
Nazi vengeance. The President said
he lacked words to describe sde-
quately such devastation. Out OF
thousands of buildings, he was told
only six were left in useful condi-
ton when the Germans fled.
In the dark hours Of the next
morning the President continued his
trip by motor to an airfeld where
Foreign Commissar Molotov and a
guard of honor were present to bid
him farewell. There, airplanes of
the United States Air = Transport
Command were waiting to take him
south to Egypt. distance of about
five and one-half hours flying time.
Measured by climates, however, the
interval spelled the difference be-
tween snow-capped mountains of
the Crimea and the desert sands end
the tropical scenery of the fertile
Nile Delta. Cairo, where the Presi-
dent and Churchill met in Decem-
ber, 1943, and travelled together to
meet Marshal Stain in Teheran,
was within a few minutes air reach
of his stopping place on this visit.
On his previous visit, however, the
President went to see King Farouk,
who was in a hospital recovering
from injuries sustained in an au-
tomobile accident. This time, how
ever, his majesty was the Presi-
dents first caller. He was received
aboard United States man-of-war
at anchor in Great. Bitter Lake
through which the Suez Canal
passes. The President was on Geek
to greet the King wheE he lrived
shortly before noon AS soon as the
formalties of the meeting we're over,
the two were deep in earnest discus
sion of many questions affecting
American Egyptian relationships.
These continued through :rncheon.
Guests included United States Min
lister S. Pinkney Tuck; Hassanein
Pasha, chamberlain of the royal
household; Fleet Admiral William
D. Leahy, the Presidents chief of
staff; Mrs. John Boettingei, the
Presidents daughter. and Harry
Hopkins, special assistant to the
President
Halle Selassie I, Emperor of Ethi-
opia, and the members of his staff
were received later in the afternoon.
He was accompanied by United
States Minister J. K. Caldwell; Ras
Kassa, president of the Crown
Council; Alto Aklilou Habte Wold,
vice minister of foreign affairs;
Alto Yilma Deressa, vice minister of
finance, together with other ad-
visers. The President conversed in
French.
In talking with the Emperor, the
President stressed communications
between the United States and
Ethiopia and said he hoped, with
improvements of communications,
particularly by air, the two coun-
tries would come to know each other
better. The Emperor told the Presi-
dent of the many improvements
recently made in Abyssinia and en-
Enthusiastically indorsed the Presi-
dents hope for closer relations.
The President took advantage of
the opportunity to thank the
Emperor in person for the site and
buildings he and the Empress gave
the United States to use as a lega-
ton in Adds Ababa.
In his conversations earlier in the
day with King Farouk the Presi-
dent referred to the purchase by the
United States of large quantities
Of long-staple Egyptian cotton dur
ing the war and stressed the hope
that greatly increased exchange of
other commodities would be de-
veloped in the future The i'm
portance of two-way future trade
was stressed. Tourist travel to
Egypt, the President said, was Ger
tain to become greater after the
war than before. He predicted
thousands of Americans would visit
Egypt and the Nile region after