The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-04-23
|M0L0T0V ARRIVES
FOR PEACE TALKS
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Francisco United Nations confer
ence opening Wednesday and there
are pressing Russian British,
American problems to be settled
before then, particularly on Pol
and.
There was no immediate an
nouncement whether tonlght's
meeting with the President was
strictly formal or a business ses-
sion
The Truman Moletov meeting
was arranged as next-door. neigh
Dor affair. Molotov was assigned
quarters in the adjoining Blair
| Lee House. The two residences,
across the street from the State
Dena rtment, are maintained Tor
visiting government dignitaries.
Secretary of State Stettinius was
called on to make the introduction,
accompanying Molotov ON the
short walk to see Mr.. Truman.
Molotov visited the United States
in 1912, but during most of his stay
he was incognito, and the State
DEPARTMENT had no record that ne
met Mr.. Truman, then a senator.
The speedy arrangement OF the
meeting with Mr.. Truman under
scored the importance of pending
Big Three conferences preliminary
to- the United Nations meeting.
After meeting the Russian party
at the airport, stettinius rode with
Molotov to the Blair-Lee House
and went in with him.
He emerged few minutes later
and went next door, presumably to
talk to the President.
AS the party entered the Blair
Lee House, Miss Mary Margaret
Truman, the Presidents daughter,
accompanied by an Army officer
and Navy officer, emerged from
next door and watched from the
front porch.
Secretary OF State Stettinius
headed a group of leading Ameri-
can. Russian and British officials
greeting the foreign commissar.
Molotov, 8 right hand man OF
Premier Stain in international af-
fairs, was expected to plunge al
most Immediately into a series of
conferences on grave issues con-
corning the U. S. S. R., Britain
and the United States, centering
on Poland.
Only three days remain before
the opening of the conference ar
ranged to set up world organiza-
ton, and reaction of delegates al
ready in San Francisco left no
doubt of their opinion that the de-
cisions reached here will go far
toward determining the success OF
the meeting.
In addition to Stettinius ana 9TH
er American officials, the Welcom-
ing party included Russian Am
bassador Andrea Gromyko and
Mrs. Gromyko, with ranking mem
bers of the embassy staff, and
Sir Archibald Clark-Kerr, British
ambassador to MOSCOW.
Sir Archibald and w. Averell
Hartman, U. S. Ambassador to
Russia who also was in the greet
ing party, flew here ahead Of Molo-
TOW for the Big Three conferences.
Others in the American group
were James Dunn, assistant
secretary of state assigned to Euro
pean affairs: Charles Bohlen,
State Department eastern Euro
pean specialist; and officials OF
the department Russian desk.
Military ceremonies customary
in greeting a foreign guest OF
Molotov's rank were omitted on
account Of the period of mourn
ing proclaimed for the death OF
President Roosevelt.
There was only brief session
of handshaking after Molotov
stepped from the Giant C-54 plane.
Molotov's arrival clmaxed a
week of mounting diplomatic ten
sion over the Polish issue, heigh-
tened by the approaching end of
the war in Europe and announce
ment of 20-year friendship treaty
between Russia and the Moscow
sponsored Warsaw regime which
Britain and the United States have
declined to accept without dilution.
Russia has twice requested that
the Warsaw provisional govern
ment be represented at San Fran
cisco. Britain and this country
have turned the demand down,
insisting that only a broader Pol
ish government, including elements
outside Poland, could fulfill the
plans for Poland which the Big
Three agreed upon at Yalta.
Eden conferred for more than
an hour yesterday with Stettinius
and said they had reached com
olete agreement on all points dis
cussed.
AS the Polish issue is the most
immediate one in the way of Big
Three accord, it was assumed that
Il entered into this two-Way discus
sion which had been planned te
include Molotov had he arrived in
. time.
The Warsaw-Moscow treaty was
considered to have emphasized
Russian determination to have
nothing to do with the Polish gov
ernnent-in-exile in London which
is still recognized by both Brita!
and America.
opinions in Washington 1>:o
from the pessimistic view that the
seeming impasse was extremely
serious. to the more optimistic