Evening star., 1945-07-16
Big Three Talks
Await Arrival of
Premier Stain
Churchill Pays
Courtesy Coll on
President Truman
Pictures on Page A-3J
BY the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
POTSDAM, July 16.-President
Truman and Prime Minister
Churchill, with their ranking
military and state advisers, to-
day awaited the momentarily
expected arrival of Premier
Stain to start the Big Three
conference at which the war
with Japan appeared to be a
leading issue.
Soviet spokesman said they had M
word that Premier Stain and For
eign Minister Molotov had arrived
in Potsdam, but added, they will be
here in time for the opening Of the
conference" 1t was generally be-
lieved they were already here.
Full-scale opening of the confer
ence seemed to have been delayed un-
til perhaps tomorrow. Mr.. Churchill
met Mr.. Truman for the first time
since President Roosevelt's death in
what was described simply as cour-
tesy call.
The President held several confer
ences with his Secretary of State
James F. Byrnes, and his personal
chief of staff, Admiral William D.
Leahy. Mr.. Truman was reported
planning a dinner early in the week
in honor of Mr.. Churchill and
Premier Stain.
Tight secrecy prevailed. Problems
such as hunger, frontiers and re-
building of Europe ravaged by war
were high on the agenda.
Byrnes and Stimson Present.
The whole hierarchy of American
and British military leaders were in
Potsdam along with two American
cabinet officers, Secretary Byrnes
and Secretary Of War Stimson Just
who were to accompany Premier
Stain and Mr.. Molotov to the Big
Three conference has not been an
nounced. Russia alone of the great
world powers is at peace with Japan
Mr.. Truman few to Berlin yes
terday.
The scores of state and military
leaders talked in an atmosphere as
remote to the outside world as
Shangri-La. The 200 newsmen as
signed to the momentous and
closely guarded gathering got no
closer than the adjacent suburb of
Sehlendorf. The conference may
last three weeks and the only au-
thoritative news from it will come
from the conferees themselves.
Premier Stain was coming here
after at least half dozen CONVEX
sations in Moscow with the new
Chinese Premier, T. v. Soong, and
a gala farewell dinner for DR..
Soong which suggested that the
meetings had been fruitful.
Spokesman for Nation.
Mr.. Truman, for his part, was
said to see his role not as simply
a mediator between two powerful
Allies, but as a spokesman for a
Nation which is seeking to arrange
a world structure in which its tech
nolQgical leadership and democratic
ideals will have a greater play than
ever before.
Old-time foreign dwellers in Mos
COW say it has seemed that Premier
Stain has held closely to four OBJ
jectiveS in directing the state affairs
for the huge land mass and nearly
200,000,000 persons who make up
the Soviet Union.
His first objective-defeat of
Soviet enemies in the west-has
been achieved. The others are said
to be:
/. Defeat of Soviet enemies in the
east-meaning, first of all, Japan.
2. Consolidation of the outer de-
fense system for Soviet territories,
which, with the inclusion of the
Carpatho- Ukraine in the Soviet
Ukraine and the prospective inclu-
sion of the northern half of East
Prussia in Soviet Lithuania, would
extend the Kremlin's dominion
farther than was ever reached by
the CzarS.
Continued Friendship.
5. The cryStallizing of wartime
friendship with the western Allies
to endure through long years of
peace to come, in which at the very
least there would be tolerant nom
interference by the others in the
sphere in which each of the Big
Three is to be dominant.
Virtually all European problems
reported up for discussion in Pots
dam bear in some way on the Soviet
Unions outer defenseS. One of the
(See BIG THREE. Page A-3)