The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-07-31
Adjournment
Of Big 3 Is
Postponed
NO EXPLANATIONS
CORRESPONDENTS Hear Lead
er, Met Last On Sat-
IL.
urday Afternoon

BERLIN, Tuesday, July 31.-u.1
of the Big Three
conference has been suddenly pest
poined due to some development
which has interrupted plenary
meetings, 1t was understood ear'v
today. 4..r =
Censorship. severe since the con-
ference opened, has been frightened
from the top level to the most ex-
IRENE degree. ''--.-,''t :.>
The censorship makes it irnpds-
sible to say why the conference has
been prolonged. 1t is said that the
present situation does not mean
that anything is materially wrong.
But thing are not going according
to plan. =
This plan was to adjourn the con-
ference yesterday with a world
shaking communicate, it is possible
to say now.
At the moment it looks as if the
President, Premier Josef Stalen
and Prime Minister Clement Att
lee will be here two or three days
more.
The most reliable sources avail.
able say that the Big Three plenary
meetings will be resumed this aft
ernoon. Five P. M. is the usual
hour.
Under the frightened censorship it
is not possible to report the normal
activities of any of the Big Three
or any of their conferences activi-
! ties, except the barren fact thai
Conferences continued"
These have not been plenary
meetings of the Big Three. Routine
conference business has continued
| and the foreign ministers have
held their daily meetings.
ct seemed possible from Smith 8
dispatch that Russia was the center
Of the new situation and that Salin
might have gone on 2 brief visit to
Moscow. This was purely specula-
tive.)
What has happened is that the
Big Three met Saturday evening
Immediately after Attlee's arrival
from London with Ernest Bevin,
Foreign Secretary in his Ne '
Labor government, and has not met
since.
The best information is that the
present situation does not mean
that anything serious has developed
as regards the conference as a
whole. There is no indication OF
basic difference over the primary
principles Of the conferecen.
There is no explanation, either,
of the sharply frightened censorship.
1t may be due in part that with
the conference near its end and the
departure of the Big Three close al
hand, secretary officers are watch
ing closely lest anything be pub.
lished which would tell too much.
Censors are watching closely fol
any possible reference which would
disclose anything the delegations
have been doing in the Potsdam
compound, except by official an
nouncement.
Before the disclosure that the Bis
iThree had not held a plenary ses
sion since Saturday, the usual
sources had said they met Sunday
and yesterday.
1t was indicated - and that an
parently is still the case - that .
lcommunioue was being drafted TO,
Publication on adjournment,
statement to the world on wha
the Big Three has done.
Whether the question of Russia.
entry into the Pacific war was dis
cussed is naturally one of the grea
secrets of most secret confer
ence.
1t has been suggested Fat ar
agreement in which Russia wa
included regarding the war agains
Japan would not be made publ,
and that later developments woult
be left to speak for themselves.