The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-10-16
Truman, MaeArihur Meeting
 Highly Satisfactory; What
 Really Happened Moi Given

HONOLULU, Oct. 16-tR-Presi- dent Truman was flying back to the mainland today to report on his meeting with General Mac- Arthur on Wake Island which has world capitals still puzzled over the significance of that Pacific rendez- vous.
 The Presidents plane "Indepen- dence" left Hickam Field. Honolulu, for San Francisco at 6:28 am. (8.28 am. PST), and the "Dewdrop," carrying his top advisers, departed five minutes later. The flight to San Francisco requires about nine hours.
 Aides said the President is devot- ing extraordinary time and care to the major foreign policy address he will make in San Francisco at 8:30 pm. PST) Tuesday
 While he will preface his talk with reference to his conference with General Macarthur on the barren Far Pacific island as a move to help the Far East find peace, i there has been no indication that the President will elaborate greatly on the Wake Island statement.
 Conference Short One
 The statement, signed by the President and initialed by the United Nations Supreme Com mander, followed their less than three hours talk.
 Actually, the most important phase of it was the hour MT. T'ru- man and General Macarthur spent alone in the living room of quon- set hut before they went into con- ference with military and diplo- matic advisers.
 The statement gave no hint of any far reaching new decisions such as many had speculated might grow out of the spectacular 14.000 mile round trip flight.
 In fact, one top White House policy adviser said Mir. Truman pri- l marily wanted to talk to General Macarthur face to face' about Far East problems and added. After all, he had never seen the General and thought he should"
 Prepares Tuesdays Talk
 MT. Truman will complete the final draft of his Tuesday talk at the Fairmont Hotel in San Fran cisco where he will spend Monday night.
 He is leaving immediately after his talk so he can be back in the White House Wednesday morning. MT. Truman was reported anxious to build up strong American SUD- port for the spending necessary to keep defense appropriations moving after the Korean emergency ends and to rehabilitate and reconstruct Korea as an example to all the Far East that the United States and it's associates want only peace and stability for the world.
 That thought will underline not only his San Francisco talk but the one he will make to the United Na- tions General Assembly in New York on Oct. "A.
 Satisfaction Over Meet l Whatever others may speculate about the Wake Island meeting, the President and his advisers exude satisfaction over it's results. And while General MacArthur exuded less outward happiness as they shook hands upon meeting and departing, Presidential advisers said the two world figures 'got along famously."
 | Some reporters thought General Macarthur was impatient to return to Tokyo to keep close tab on opera tions in Korea.
 The General himself. picked Wake Island for the meeting when the President suggested that second World War hot spot or Hawaii. First Hand Information
 MT. Truman said in statement that he met the General to get first hand information and ideas from him" He added. significantly:
 q did not wish to take him away from the scene of action in Korea any longer than necessary and, therefore, I came to meet him at Wake"
 Qzvestia, the Soviet government newspaper in Moscow, declared the Truman -MacArthur meeting was arranged to work out plans to ex- pand American aggression" in the Far East)
 Mir. Truman called the conference highly satisfactory"
 He attributed briefness of the meeting to very complete unan- unity of views"
 Then he went on to say that he and General Macarthur talked about steps necessary to bring peace and security to the area" with the view to withdraw US.
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