Evening star., 1945-05-15
1rumon Hopes Big 3 Will Meet
Soon to Discuss Peace Plans;
Reverses owl on Reich Papers
Executive Reveals He
Talked With Eden
About Conference
By ]. A. FOX.

PreSlQenC truman is nOpeIu
for an early meeting with Prime
Minister Churchill and Premier
Stain, he told his news confer
ence today.
Emphasizing that he was not say
ing that there would be such q
meeting, he stressed that he wanted
to get around the table, as he said
to discuss with the other members
of the Big Three the coming plan
for peace.
Earlier today Mr.. Churchill
told the House of Commons he
hoped to confer soon with Mr..
Truman and Premier Stain, the
Associated Press reported.
Questioned whether a meeting
was contemplated in 1.-The near
future" he said: L devoutly
hope so. 1t would be very odd
If such a long, fierce war ended
without any settlement even
among the victors)
No Guess on Date.
The President would not venture
a guess as to when the contemplated
meeting might be held but smilingly
parried a question about this by
saying it would not be in the far
distant future nor would it be i'm
mediately.
He also said that Gen. Charles
de Gaulle, head of the Provisional
French government, would not take
part in the conference if it were
arranged.
1t will be a meeting of the Big
Three, the President said. In re-
sponse to another question, the
President said the projected con-
ference would not be held in San
Francisco.
There have been some reports
that the wind-up of the security
conference on the West Coast might
be the occasion of trip there by
the President and the leaders of
the other major powers.
Discussed Meeting With Eden.
President Truman said he had
discussed this question of meeting
with Foreign Minister Anthony
Eden Of Great Britain, who spent
40 minutes with him yesterday on
his way home from the San Fran
cisco gathering.
The matter came up otter Mr..
Truman asserted he favored repeal
of the Johnson Act which bars
YDy-ityofp 1norc fo fNrniryn
ments which defaulted on their
World War obligations.
He said he never was in favor of
the legislation and he quoted from
a message which President Roose-
velt sent to Congress urging repeal
on the ground that such a step was
necessary to facilitate the operation
of the Export-Import Bank and of
the international banking arrange
ments contemplated under the
Breton Woods agreement.
Mr.. Truman also made public to-
day the names of the members of
the staff who will go to Moscow
with Edwin w. Pauley, and his as
Sociate, Isador Lubin, recently
named United States members of
the Preparations Commission in
Moscow. He issued a statement de-
claring that in shaping a repara-
tions program, this country wants
absolute insurance against Ger
man or Japanese rearmament-
ever again
That" the President said, comes
first with U.S."
FL Named on Staff.
A list of 81 persons were named
on the staff. Not all were identified
Among the group were:
DR.. Robert Gordon Sproul, preSi-
dent of the University of California
who will serve as an adviser on the
human aspect of reparations; Jubal
r. Parten, a Houston (TeX) indus
trial adviser; Luther H. Gulick, New
York City, adviser in political sci
ence and public administration;
Ernst Mailer, Neenah, Wis, adviser
on plant and equipment appraisal;
Richard B. Schandrett, jr., New
York, expert on machine tools and
metals: Lawrence Richardson, Mas
sachusetts, expert on rolling stock
and j. Howard Marshall, Ashland
KY, counsel. There were, in addi-
ton, experts from the State and
Treasury Departments.
Richard Durham of New York City
will be chief of the missions secre-
tariat.
The President sid he thought this
organization was the finest of its
kind ever assembled and added jok-
ingly that he didn't know what we
were going to do for experts at the
peace conference, with so many
capable men assigned to the repara-
tions work.
The Presidents statement on
reparations follows: