Evening star., 1948-11-08
Marshall Expected
To Report 10 Truman
Late This Month
by the Assoeiufsd Press

Secretary of State Marshall
probably will visit Washington
before the end of the month.
His mission will be to report to.
President Truman on the United
Nations meeting at Paris and re-
view outstanding American foreign
policy problems. =
But diplomatic authorities here
believe decision also will be made
on whether and how long Gen.
Marshall will stay in the cabinet
after Inauguration Day, January 20.
Gen. Marshall is known to want
to retire, but there has been talk
that Mr.. Truman may ask him to
remain and lend a hand with such
impending problems as seeking
Senate approval of an American
military alliance with the principal
countries of Western Europe and
the North Atlantic area.
will Review Relations.
1t seems probable that the Presi-
dent also will want to review with
his Secretary of State future moves
In the cold war and determine
whether any improvement may be
possible in relations between the
Western powers and Russia.
Some speculation about this pos
Sibility has been caused among
diplomats here by what they regard
as the conciliatory tone of For
eign Minister Molotov's speech in
Moscow Saturday.
MIR. Molotov took the line that
the defeat of Gov. Dewey in last
weeks election showed the Amer
ican people oppose policy of ag-
gression.'
Some authorities said that if Mr..
Molotov believes Mr.. Trumans elec-
ton means an abandonment of the
bipartisan foreign policy, then his
words have no significance. But,
they added, If Mr.. Molotov sought
to indicate Soviet willingness to
seek reasonable settlements on the
whole range of East West issues
from the Berlin crisis to the con-
troll of atomic bombs-then the
prospects for peace are brighter
than they have been for some time.
Wait-and-See Attitude.
The attitude of American officials
is to wait and see what actions the
Russians take as result of Mr..
Truman's victory at the polls.
All available evidence is that the
Truman administration intends to
go forward rapidly toward its
overall foreign policy objective of
strengthening Western Europe and
such other areas of the world as it
is able to help against the expan-
sion of Soviet power through spread
ing Communism.
The administration already is pre-
pared to take further steps toward
drafting the proposed military alli-
ance with Canada, Britain, France,
and the Low Countries.
But at the other end of the cold
war front-in China-American pol
icy is much less definite for the
moment.
London Date Owes Tip.
Of11cials here declined any formal
comment on the probability of a
post election conference between
Mr.. Truman and Gen. Marshall. But
the tip-off that Gen. Marshall ex-
poets to see the President came in
a dispatch from Paris late last week
revealing that he was uncertain
whether he could be present per-
|sonally to accept degree from the
University Of London in mid -Novem-
ber.
Mr.. Truman left yesterday on his
Key West, Fla, vacation, expecting
to be gone about two weeks. This
indicates the time at which Gen.
Marshall probably will arrive since
he Is not expected to visit the Pres
ident at Key West.
Gen. Marshall reported to Mr..
Truman on October 8. Their con-
ferences then were dramatized by
news of the Presidents abandoned
plan to send Chief Justice Vinson
on a peace mission to Moscow.
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