RUSSIAN LEADERS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 82, 3 October 1941, Page 5

RUSSIAN LEADERS

THREE-POWER CONFERENCE

SPEEDY AID

LONDON, October 2. Lord Beaverbrook gave journalists in Moscow some idea of how the Three-Power Conference was able to complete. its work rapidly and successfully.! "M. Stalin, Mr. Harriman, and I received detailed reports from our members on the committees," he said. "Then, every night, we co-ordinated the findings at the Kremlin. We worked every night—M. Stalin, M. Molotov, Mr. Harriman, and I—with . M. Litvinoff as our only interpreter." The Russians, Lord Beaverbrook added, were very pleased indeed with the result of the conference. He could not praise their attitude too highly. They had shown remarkable aptitude for understanding Britain's problems. The speed with which they would get the material promised them was indicated by the speed of the conference.

Mr. Harriman said he was leaving a number ,of American experts in Moscow to handle technical details, and some United States officers were going to Moscow in connection with the supply of aircraft and other equipment.

The leaders of the British and United States missions told their Press conference that they had handed to M. Stalin personal messages from Mr. Churchill and President Roosevelt.

M. Molotov described the President and the Prime Minister as the most important statesmen of their age, and expressed Russia's appreciation of their initiative in suggesting the conference. The arrogant Hitler, he said, was never confronted with such a combination of States-as was represented at the conference, and Nazism would be erased from the face of the earttf.