The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-16
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before the formal opening of the conference despite earlier reports that he and the British leader would hold a preliminary discussion on their mutual problems.
 The President stepped down the gangway of the U. s. Cruiser Augusta at Antwerp at 11:10 a. m. Sunday, (3:10 a. m. EWT), to be- come the first chief executive to set foot on Western European soil since Woodrow Wilson went to Paris 26 years ago for the peace that failed.
 Accompanied by Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, Fleet Admiral William F. Leahy and small party of advisers, the snil- ing man from Missouri was met py Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ad- miral Harold R. Stark, Charles Sawyer, U. s. ambassador to Bel gium, and local British and Amer ican military commanders. Wearing a double-breasted gray business suit and grey felt hat, MT. Truman conducted a brief inSpec- tion of an honor guard from the 35th division, his World War outfit.
 Then the Presidential party mo- tored to the Melsbroeck Airdrome on the outskirts of Brussels and MT. Truman boarded Eisenhower'S Spe- cial plane, arriving in Potsdam at AIS D. m. Q0:15 a. m. EWTO.
 At Pots dam, he was greeted by Soviet Marshal Gregory K. Zhu- kov's deputy, General Alexander Sokolovsky, and Col. Gen. Alexander Gorbatov, Red Army commandant of Berlin.
 American, British and Russian tanks and infantrymen surrounded the entire airfleld sector and banned all but the official military photog- raphers.
 Stepping spryly down the trans port plane ladder MT. Truman shook hands cordially with the Rus sian envoys and received the Presi- dential honors from color guard of the U. s. Second Armored Divi- sion.
 Immediately after the arrival ceremonies, he was whisked 15 miles away to his official residence, a 30- room house appropriated from wealthy Berliner and furnished by the Red Army, within 10 minutes drive of the meeting place.
 The president ate an early dinner with his personal staff and went to bed shortly after 10 o'clock SO that he could be up early and ready Tor business.
 Churchill Follows Truman
 Churchill, fresh from week long vacation in Southern France, flew into Potsdam about two hours after the president, accompanied by his daughter, Mary.
 Wearing the uniform of an army colonel, the 73-year- Prime Minister lit up his inevitable cigar as soon as he touched the ground, tucked his stick under his arm and went briskly through the reception ceremony. He broke off the offl- cial inspection of the honor guard abruptly, however. apparently 10 avoid undue strain.
 Beyond the fact that Stalin ana his Foreign Commissar, Vyacheslav Molotov, had arrived in Berlin, there was no official word on the whereabouts or doings of the Rus- sian delegation in advance of the meeting.
 For the Soviet premier it was his first trip outside Russia since the Teheran meeting with Churchill and the late President Roosevelt in Nov ember, 1943, and 1t was the first public visit to Germany in his car- ger.
 Before the 1918 revolution, the generalissimo viisted briefly m Stockholm, Prague, Vienna and London as delegate of the Rus sian Emigre Socialist congresses.
 Throughout the late hours yes terday. planes were shutting in continually with new arrivals TOT the meeting, including most of the top-ranking American and Brltlsn military staff officers whose pres ence suggested strongly that the Pacific war might play an impor1- ant part in the discussions. Among the American arrivals were Secretary of War Henry Stim- son, General George c. Marshal, U. s. Chief of Sta, General Henry H.. (Hap) Arnold, Air Forces Com mander, and General Brehon B. somervell, Chief of the Services of Supply.
 Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King Chief of Naval Operations, already was in Berlin, along with w. Aver ell Hartman, U. s. ambassador to Berlin, and Presidential Envoy Jo- seph E. Davies.
 Conferees Cheered In Churchill's entourage were vir- , tually all the top army, navy and air force commanders who helped , direct the defeat of Nazi Germany, plus Foreign Eecretary Anthony ' Eden and Labor Party Leader Cie- ment Attlee, who was invited by , Churchill against the possibility Of , a reversal in the still-untallied gen. eral election that might unseat the present conservative government. Churchills military party includ- ed Britain's three chiefs of stan. Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, Air Marshal Sir Charles Portal and Ad- miral of the Fleet Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham, as well as Field Marshals Sir Bernard L.. Montgomery, Henry Maitland Wil- mm~