TALKS WITH RUSSIA

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 133, 2 December 1943, Page 6

TALKS WITH RUSSIA

MATTER FOR SPECULATION Eec. 2.10 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 1. The principals at the Cairo conference departed at least three days before the news of the conference was ,• In reference to / Marshal Stalin's absence from the conference, Reuters .'diplomatic correspondent stresses that 'this was a Pacific war meeting and i Stalin did not attend because Russia ;is not at war with Japan. . , "The conference does not exclude ithe possibility of an eventual meeting between the heads of the British, American, and Russian Governments to deal with the fate of Germany," he says. "On the-contrary, such a me.eting is likely; though when and where is a. matter for speculation." .■■■■;• During the- North African conference Mr. Roosevelt, personally decorated General Eisenhower -with the Legion of Merifc The President praised General. Eisenhower's training and preparatory work and also, his outstanding contributions to the Allied cause and ihe successes now being ■ realised.' -■■■*" : ' .■ ■ •■ : '- '■ ' ' : . ■ , ■■'