The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-16

stand against the converging Red army forces.
 Inspection By Truman
 Thanked by two carloads of secret service men and halftrack load of expert army riflemen, MT. Tru- man and Secretary of State James Byrnes motored through the worst rubble of central Berlin.
 When he stopped before the shat tered, burned-out shell of the chancellery the president observed with a pensive shake of his head:
 "It's a terrible thing, but they brought it on themselves"
 He looked up at the jagged re- mains of a balcony where Adolf Hitler enflamed the world with his ranting speeches and said:
 Its just a demonstration of what can happen when man over- reaches himself. I never saw such destruction. don't know whether they'll learn anything from it or not"
 As he looked and spoke, listless and ragged Germans stumbled through the rubble still littering sections of the city. The Germans paid little att.4.tion to him. When they did, it was mostly blank, sul- len stareS.
 Churchill Visits
 Prime Minister Churchill called on President Truman in his resi- dential villa in the park-like Pots- dam suburbs today. It was under stood to have been an informal call to pay respects. This was the first time Churchill had met MT. Truman since he assumed the presidency.
 MT. Truman rose early after re- tiring at 10 p. m. last night. He is an early riser by habit and he main tained the habit here. He conferred immediately with Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, Admiral William Leahy. and his staff.
 Accompanied by their top military and diplomatic advisers, President Truman, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin will come to- gether for the first time in a heav- | ily-guarded council chamber in the picturesque palace of the late Kaiser Wilhelm.
 President Confident
 MT. Truman, confident and in ex- cellent spirits after his eight-day sea voyage from Washington, was ready to brush aside as much form ality as possible and get down te business immediately.
 With his typical energy and brass tacks' attitude. the President want ed to take up at once the lengthy agenda prepared by each of the par ticipating nations. His two main objestives frankly were a speedy end to the Pacifit war and an agreement on the fu. ture world peace which would be a least the forerunner to full-dres! peace conference sometime aftel Japan's complete surrender.
 The big three discussions wer' cloaked by a strictly enforced cen sorship that even banned report CTS from the immediate conference scene and the only current new while they last-perhaps thre' weeks or more-was expected tt come from periodic official com muniques.
 But informed observers believed the agenda would cover at leas these major topics:
 1-Russia's plans in the Paclfi and the results of her interrupted discussions with China.
 &The joint administration O Germany.
 | 3-The reparations to be exactes from beaten Germany: Whethe in money. goods or manpower O all three. Russia reportedly Is ask ing for 100000 German men t rebuild her ruined cities. | 4 Settlement of the various ter ritorial claims now being advances by France, Yugoslavia, Poland Bulgaria, etc.
 | 5-The Anglo-R Russian conflic over middle eastern oil resources including the tied-in problem of tn Arab-Jewish impasse in Palestine | 6-Russian territorial demands ol Turkey and the Soviet request fo revision of the Montreaux agree ment of 1886, under which tn Turks were permitted to fortify tn Dardanelles.
 | 7-Reorganization of the Sovie sponsored Austrian government which Britain and the Unite, States have refused to recognize. 8eThe still-unsolved question 0 the hundreds of thousands of Polisl troops who have reiterated thei loyalty to the defunct exile gov ernment in London and have re fused to return to Poland.
 More remote is the possible dis cussion of a Russian seat on tn control board of the Suez cana and future joint control of tn Panama canal, which neither Brit ain nor the United States is likel to concede.
 The Levant states demand fo complete independence from Franc also may come before the big three although in the light of Frencl resentment at Gen. Charles D Gaulle's exclusion from the con ference no definitive action on tha point appeared likely.
 DeGaulle May Confer
 (Unconfirmed press report reaching London said De Gau1 might be invited to join the con ference later.