Evening star., 1947-03-10

down on the city outside the window
as he talked to reporters who packed
into a small room at the Moscow
Hotel to hear him.
The Flyers Club building, where
the conference sessions are to be
held, was washed and brushed for
the occasion this morning. Oficial-
ly known as the House of Soviet
Aviation Industry, it stands on Len
ingrad highway near the airport at
which General Marshall landed yes
terday.
The building is a squarish, heavy
set neo-classic structure of yellow
stucco, three or four stories high.
The top story, which is windowless,
has a series of inches containing
busts of great figures of world avia-
tion.
Marshall Voices Hopes.
Three inches hold Leonardo Da-
Vinci, Joseph Montgolfier the
French baloonisl, and Wilbur
Wright. The other seven historic
flyers appear to be Russian.
Before it became the Flyers Club,
this place contained film studio.
In Czarist. times there stood the
GipSy restaurant Var, a familiar
scene in Russian novels of the. time.
Gen Marshall, last of the officials
to reach Moscow, keynoted the con-
ference five minutes after his plane
touched the ground yesterday with
an expression of measured hopeful
ness.
THE mission upon which I have
come, as all the world knows, is one
of tremendous Importance and con-
sequence to all mankind" he said.
There have been difficulties in ne
gotiating other peace treaties in the
past and doubtless there will be diff
ficulties here"
The Secretary paused moment,
then continued:
But they have been met sue
cessfully in the past period and II
am confident will be-by peaceful
methods of negotiation - reach
agreements which will greatly ad-
vance the cause of peace, in which,
we are all most deeply Interested
Among those on hand at the
airport to greet the Secretary of
State were Andrei Vishinsky, Rus
sian Deputy Foreign Minister, and
American Ambassador Walter Be-
dell Smith. Mr.. Vishinsky was ar
rayed in a magnificent uniform.
Gen. Smith wore civilian clothes
and a derby.
The two diplomats conversed
through an interpreter while Gen.
Marshall's plane circled the air.
port preparing to land. The Ameri-
can stamped his feet in the snow
in an attempt to keep warm.
TITS cold" Mr.. Vishinsky said,
"hut there is a smell of spring in
the air
"Ah, yes" said Gen. Smith doubt
fully.
Since Friday afternoon Gen. Mar
shall had been in Berlin, where
he discussed the German problems
with 1t. Gen. Lucius D. Clay. With
him on the plane from Berlin came
Ambassador Robert Murphy, po-
litical counsel to Gen. Clay, and
John Foster Dulles, the Repub-
lican Party's expert on foreign af-
fairs, as we'll as top State Depart
ment advisers.
Mr.. Dulles has been outspoken in
his criticism of Russia. The Rus
slams in turn are equally outspoken
in their criticism of him. Mr..
Dulles was the next man down the
ramp from the plane door after
Gen. Marshall, and the Secretary
introduced him to Mr.. Vishinsky.
Mr.. Dulles had not accompanied
Gen. Marshall on the visit to Paris,
proceeding directly to Berlin in an
other plane. But Gen. Marshall ex-
pressly arranged for him to wait in
Berlin and arrive in Moscow by the
Secretary's side
Ambassador Smith took Gen. Mar
shall from the airport to Spasso
House, the embassy residence, where
he had already vacated his personal
rooms for the Secretary's use. An
early caller was British Foreign Min
ister Bevin. No appointments were
scheduled for Gen. Marshall yes
terday. however