Evening star., 1945-04-25
Truman Speech
Tonight Opens
World par|ey
Optimism Prevails
Among Delegates
At San Francisco
OTHER NEWS FROM San Fran
cisco Conference. Page Al
BY GOULD LINCOLN,

SAN FRANCISCO, April 25.-
The eyes of the world turned to-
day to San Francisco and the
United Nations Conference.
which is to draft machinery for
future peace.
The formal start of this great
adventure. with 46 nations partici-
pating, takes place late this after
noon when Secretary of State Stet-
tinius will open the conferences
first session and the delegates will
receive a message from President
Truman by radio.
Hope for success rode high. Even
the cloud of an unsettled Polish
issue among the Big Three failed
to lower this hope. The Russian
delegation, headed by Foreign Com
missar v. M. Molotoy, which has
demanded that an invitation be ex-
tended to the Communist-domi-
mated provisional government in
Warsaw-a demand which has been
resisted by the British and Ameri-
can governments-insisted that the
work of the conference would go
right ahead, whether Poland is rep
resented here or not.
Hope for Agreement Persists.
Americans have been deeply wor-
ried by failure to get the Polish
Warsaw government reorganized
along the line of the Yalta agree
ment made by the late President
Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill
and Premier Stain.
In some quarters hope persisted
that an early agreement on Poland
would be reached as a result of
some dramatic move by Premier
Stain If this can be accomplished
! it will be regarded as notice to the
world that the United Nations can
settle differences good omen for
the future. To do less would have
at least bad psychological effect.
This conference city is abustle
with activity. The American dele
CATION scheduled a preconference
caucus at $50 am. Pacific war
time) with Mr.. Stettinius. Rus
sian members met with Mr.. Molotoy,
who arrived yesterday afternoon,
and British delegates had confer
ence with Foreign Secretary An
thony Eden.
The Big Three Foreign Secre-
taries met later with T. V. Soong,
Foreign Minister of China-the
fourth sponsoring power" of the
United Nations parley-for a last
minute review of arrangements prior
to the brief conference opening at
4:30 pm. Pacific war time. 7:30
pm, Washington time).
High Light of Program.
High light of the scheduled half
hour program. to be broadcast around
the world, will be a 10-minute ad-
dress by President Truman from
Washington. Mr.. Stettinius will rap
the session to order and deliver the
initial address, introducing the
American Chief Executive. After
Mr.. Truman's speech, the program
calls ior addresses by Gov. Earl
Warren of California and Mayor
Roger D. Lapham of San Francisco.
(The President had an oppor-
tunity to discuss his talk with
former Secretary of State Hull
yesterday when he called on Mr..
Hull at the Bethesda Naval Hos
pital, where the latter has been
confined for some time.
Tonight's speech will be Mr..
Truman's third as President.
Earlier he addressed a joint ses-
sion of Congress and also radioed
a message to all members of the
armed forces)
Mr.. Stettinius holds the temporary
Craftsmanship of the meeting in San
FTancisco's high-vaulted, red-and-
gold opera house auditorium. He
is sure later to be elected permanent
chairman, the position which he
held at Dumbarton Oaks, in WASH
ington, when the United States,
China, Russia and Britain drafted
the plan of world organization here
placed before all the United Ma
tions.
Prospects are that this plan may