MR. CHURCHILL IN MOSCOW

Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 14, 11 October 1944, Page 7

MR. CHURCHILL IN MOSCOW

Talks Military And Political QUEBEC .SEQUEL (By Telegraph.—Press 4ssn. —Copyright.) (Received October 10, 9 p.m.) LONDON, October 9. The Prime Minister, Mr. Churchill and the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Eden, arrived in Moscow today for a confer; ence with Premier Stalin and M. Molotov, the Soviet Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister. Also in Mr. Churchill’s party were Field-Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, chief of the Imperial General Staff, and Lieutenant-General Sir Hastings Ismay, deputy secretary to the War Cabinet and Mr. Churchill’s Chief of Staff, Moscow radio announced that Mr. Churchill had his first conference with Premier Stalin tonight. Mr. Eden, M. Molotov, ami the British Ambassador also attended. After the general eouterence, Mr. Eden and M. Molotov held a second meeting. In the House of Commons, the DeputyPremier, Mr. Atlee, stated that the meeting was the sequel to the meetiug at Quebec which Premier Stalin was unable to attend. He added that the Moscow meeting had the full approval of the United States Government. Mr. Harriman, the United States Ambassador, would be America’s representative at the conversations. Mr. Churchill went to Moscow for whqt is best described as a round-table talk with Premier Stalin on a variety of topics, among which the final defeat and control of Germany, and the future of liberated Poland, will be well in the forefront,” states the “Daily Mail’s” political correspondent, “A formal agenda was imt drawn up, and for that reason it can be assumed that the visit is mainly to report to and consult with Premier Stalin on matters that were examined at Quebec with President Roosevelt.” The correspondent says he is assured that no sudden development was responsible for Mr. Churchill’s journey, which was due entirely to a personal desire to meet Premier Stalin face to face for a discussion or outstanding matters. The fact that M.r. Eden accompanied him indicates that it is not a purely military conference. There is every indication that Mr. Churchill’s stay will be comparatively short; indeed, it may not last more than a few days. The Prime Minister does not want to be away from London too long. Years’ Achievement. Mr. Churchill’s last visit to Moscow was in August, 1942. The two leaders, met again last year at Teheran. Mr,. Churchill, in a speech immediately after his arrival on the Moscow airfield, said: “More than two years have passed since I was last here—- two years of uninterrupted victories. All of us from different parts of the world have fought our common foe who ruthlessly destroyed mankind’s peace and accompanied his every step with cruelty and terrible atrocities, and upon whom the United Nations' might is now descending, “In this wonderful period of victories tile Russian armies have struck heavy blows. They were the first to shatter the German Army’s spirit and war machine. But we, too, the Unted States and British Commonwealth, have exerted our strength to the limit, and it is for you to judge whether or not we have infleted heavy blows. “I have come here with the hope, nay, the certitude that victory will be achieved, and with the hope that when it is achieved we shall all try to make the world a 'better place for the great masses of the people to live in.” The British were met at the aerodrome by M.M. Molotov, Vyshinsky, and Maisky, both Deputy Commissars of Foreign Affairs, General Antonev, Deputy Chief of the Red Army General Staff, and other Soviet officials, also the British Ambassador, Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, the American Ambassador, and the Canadian and Australian envoys.