Evening star., 1948-02-25
The Memoirs Of CordeH Hull
Hull Insisted on Replacing Welles as Head
lOf Delegation to Moscow Conference in 1943


vocal position OF King Leopold, then
. prisouer OF the Germans, who had
British support because Churchill
believed In the restoration ct facns
arches, but who might cause troas
BILE with regard TO the Belgian gov
ernment-in-exile. 1elgium was "A
arttficial bilingual state with the
Wslloons and rlamands tradition.
ally ct odds with each other. The
President mentioned. In this con.
noction, . German study made N
1910 proposing . federal union Of
Alsace, Lorraine, Luxembourg ana
the two parts Of Belgium.
Planned Plea 10 Stain.
Az for Poland and the Battle
states. the President said that. whsn
he should meet with ssalin. he In.
tended to appeal 10 him ca grounds
Of high morality. He would say TO
him that neither Britain nor ~
would flsht Russia over the Baltic
states, but that In Russia's own In.
terest, from the viewpoint Of her
position In the world. It would be .
good thing for her to say that shs
would be willing. two years or 20
after the war, to hold . second
plehiscite in the Baltic countries.
While Russia was satisfied that
the plebiscite she had already held
was conclusive, he commented. the
rest Of the world did not seam 10
think 20. He thought that the sams
idea might be applied to Eastern
Poland, but that the new boundary
In any event should be soNaewhat
east Of the so-called Curzon line,
with Lemberg Gwcw> going to Po.
land, and that plebiscite should b
held after the shell.shock Of was
had subsided.
Mr.. Roosevelt felt that the Baltic
and the straits
might each be set up as q free sons
under international trustees. and
that similar zone might be ar
ranged for Russia to the Persian
Gulf.
First Time I'm Plane.
At noon on the sunshiny day OF
October n I went to the Washing
ton Airport and boarded an airplans
for Moscow-the nrst time ] had
ever put foot in one.
After boarded the plane, Condr.
Frank Myers. who was sent BY the
Navy to supervise the oxygen on the
plane, pointed out to me the ssner-
gency exits to use In case the craft
had to ditch" on water. The fact
of several exits, I said, reminded me
of the story Of the old gentleman in
Tennessee who kept three cats. A
friend, visiting him one day, noticed
three large semicircular holes cut In
The bottom Of the front door.
What are those forf" he asked.
ITO let my cats out" was the reply.
But why won't one hole do
them?"
Because" the old gentleman re-
torted emphatically, when I say
'Scat!' I mean 'scat!'"
Our frst lap was to West Palm
Beach. Over Georgia the plane had
to 60 up to 10000 feet and IL 5000
feet was made to wear an oxygen
mask. Elderly men do not react well
to high-iying attitudes, which are
prone to bring on heart attacks, but
+ experienced no discomfort /,
The next lap, the following morn
Ing, was to San Juan, Puerto Rico.
There We boarded the cruiser
Phoenix to make the Atlantic CROSS
ing to North Africa.
Boards Plane Again. o@.
We landed at Casablanca. 7 was
met by Robert Murphy, our foreign
service officer who was handling our
political Affairs In North Africa, and
taken immediately to the airport.
There we boarded our plane, which
had flown the Atlantic.
Murphy accompanied us On the
next stage of the flight, which was
to Algiers. and gave me . summary
Of his latest impressions on the
situation in North Africa and Italy.
At Algiers dined with Gen. Eisen- b
hover. who came from Italy for the
occasion and whose personality and
impressed me greatly.
also received . visit from Gen. de
Gaulle.
From Algiers We made night
flight to Cairo. I slept fairly well
In a berth. The following morning
We took of for Teheran, Iran.
At Teheran two Russian navi-
Rators came aboard. We were also
Joined by w. Averell Hartman, our
new Ambassador to Russia, who
continued on with us.
We arrived In Moscow late In the
afternoon Of . cold October day,
the 18th, Just as the sun WAS setting.
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