Evening star., 1945-07-24
Big 3to Recess
WhiIeChurchiII
Goes 10 London
Prime Minister Plans
To Hear Election
Results Thursday
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
POTSDAM, July 24.-The Big
Three has scheduled a recess of
one day, Thursday, so Prime
Minister Churchill may be in
London when the results of the
British election are announced
it was learned today.
The British delegation emphasized
earlier that the Prime Minister'S trip
to London did not mean the end OF
the Potsdam Conference.
Mr.. Churchill, Foreign Secretary
Anthony Eden and Clement r. Att
lee, Labor party leader, who has
been sitting in on the conferences at
Mr.. Chuchill's invitation, arranged
to leave Potsdam by plane late to-
morrow after the ninth successive
Big Three business session.
The Big Three met this afternoon
the length of the meeting and the
topics discussed were not announced
President Truman and Premier
Stain will take Thursday off from
their deliberations while staffs of
the three powers catch up on the
paper work.
Will Return Immediately.
While there is no elaboration In
the British disclosure of the trip to
London, it was understood that Mr..
Churchill and Mr.. Eden would re-
turn to PotSdam Immediately in
event of Conservative party vic
tory. Should the Labor party be vic
torious, Mr.. Attlee presumably would
return in the role of Prime Minister.
accompanied by his party's choice
for Foreign Secretary.
The formal British announcement
said merely:
There is no question of the Ber-
lin Conference being over by We'd
nesday, when the Prime Minister,
the Foreign Secretary and Mr.. Att
lee are returning to England for the
election results"
The statement came amid specu-
lation of an early conclusion of the
Big Three conferences, based largely
on a steadily growing atmosphere
OF international understanding and
on reports that President Truman
had won unexpected Russian con-
cesSionS.
Truman Would Stay Longer.
1t was reported that President
Truman was prepared to stay here
three weeks longer If necessary to
help settle boundary and economic
questions confronting the Big Three
which possibly could furnish the
seeds for another world war.
-~ Despite the general optimism. it
was pointed out that Premier Stain
is a No. l realist and a shrewd
bargalner and that nothing can be
taken for granted until the con-
ference is completed. Some mem
bers OF the American delegation ac-
cordingly warned against taking too
rosy a view of the outlook.
Meanwhile, personnel of the dele
cation is coming and going on
various assignments in connection
with the conference, but most all
Of the top-rankers, including Secre-
tary of State Byrnes, are working
here daily. Observers advised
against attaching any great signifi-
canoe to these departures and ar
rivals
(NBC Correspondent Roy Por-
ter said in a broadcast from
Berlin last night that part of
the American delegation already
mad left Germany and that other
members were preparing to leave
-or "a new and surprising desti-
nation"
I'm London, diplomatic sources
said they were ''mystified" by the
report and had no comment.
Un Washington the White
House declined comment)
President Entirely Pleased"
Close associates said today the
President was entirely pleased
with progress made by the Ameri-
can delegation at Potsdam, and it
was reported that his own plain