Evening star., 1945-06-06

Soviet representatives previously
had read and approved in London.
Text Of Article.
This article, which the Russians
apparently believed might be con-
strued by the Japanese as a breach
of neutrality, reads:
THE forces, nationals, ships, air.
craft, military equipment and other
property in Germany, or in Ger
man control or service or at Ger
man disposal, of any other country
at war with any of the Allies, will
be subject to the provisions of the
declaration and of any proclama-
tions, orders, ordinances or in
structions issued hereunder"
If the Russians agreed to this
article, 1t was pointed out, a strict
Interpretation would require them
to seize Japanese persons and prop
erty in the Soviet Union, although
Russia is not at war with Japan.
The American correspondents said
Gen. Eisenhower at once proposed
that the word nationals" be strick-
en- from the text, but this did not
suit the Russians. After discus
sion between Soviet representatives.
Ambassador William Murphy, chief
of the political division of the United
States Control group. and Sir Will
liam Strang of the British Foreign
Once, it was decided to omit the
article from the declaration.
One of the American pool corre-
spondents, Drew Middleton of the
New York Times, wrote from Berlin
last evening that while the meeting
yesterday had broken the ice" it
still left unsolved the major occu-
patton problems confronting the
Allies in Germany.
Even if the delimitation of the
zones of occupation is announced
tomorrow and the dispersal of the
Anglo-American units is completed
in the next "a hours, the site of the
control meetings and the machinery
by which the council will work will
not yet have been decided upon
Mr.. Middleton wrote.
Berlin as Headquarters.
ut seems probable" he added
that Berlin eventually will be
selected by the four powers las the
headquarters site), for, although
Berlin is so heavily damaged by
bombs and shell that it is difficult
to find large building intact and
suitable for Offices, the same con-
ditions prevail in other large cities
of Central Germany"
Gen. Eisenhower signed the decla-
ration for the United States, Mar
shall Zhukov for Russia, Marshal
Montgomery for Great Britain, and
Gen. Jean de Lattre de Tassigny for
France.
The signature took place in a.
Russian officers club at Marshal
zhukov's headquarters near Karls-
horst, an eastern suburb of the
shattered, bomb blasted German
capital.
Both Gen. Eisenhower and Mar
shall Montgomery were paying their
first visit to Berlin.
Gen. Eisenhower landed at Tenn
pelhof Airdrome at II o'clock yes
terday morning and was immedi-
ately driven to large villa in the
Southeastern Berlin suburb of Koe-
penick which had been placed at
his disposal by the Russian COM
mander in chief.
Marshal Montgomery flying from
his headquarters in Northern Ger
many, landed at 2:45 pm. and
Gen. de Lattre de Tassigny arrived
soon after.
Drive Through Dead City.
The long convoy of limousines
which carried the American party
drove through dead and silent city
The only people on the streets over
which the automobiles Travelled
were sentries and smartly uniformed
Russian women military police, who
guided the party with signal flags
OF bright yellow and red. At the
head of each street leading into
those over which the Allies trav-
eled, however, stood little knots of
silent Germans.
Nearly every house along the
route was decorated with American.
Russian, British and French flags
and other flags had been stuck into
piles Of rubble which dot every
block.
Propaganda signs lined the streets
containing excerpts from Premier
Stains broadcasts on the Ger
mans, notably statement that Rus
STA did not want to enslave the Ger
man people.
Also in the party OF about so
officers and GIs were Mai. Gen.
David NJ Schlatter. deputy chief of
the SHAEF air staff, Brig. Gen.
Byron L. Mllburn, the United States
group control commissioner, and 1t.
Col. Ernest R. Lee, Gen. Eisenhower's
aide.
Miss Russian Banquet.
The Russians had prepared one of
their now famous banquets, to follow
yesterdays ceremony. but both Gen.
Eisenhower and Marshal Mont
gomery said they had to return to
their headquarters at once. Shortly
before 7 pm. the meeting broke up
and the leading delegates drove back
to Tempelhof Airfield for the return
flight.
Signing of the declaration is likely
to be followed shortly by a number
OF proclamations to the German