Talks With President Already Under Way

Manawatu Times, Volume 70, Issue 267, 12 November 1945, Page 5

Talks With President Already Under Way

(By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) Received Sunday, 9.55 p.m. WASHINGTON, Nov. 10. Mr. Attlee has arrived and ■will be the guest of the President at the White House, where a State dinner will be held tonight. He will visit Arlington cemetery on Armistice Day where, with Mr. Truman, he will lay a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. He will then board the President’s launch in the Potomac River for talks. The Canadian Prime Minister (Mr. Mackenzie-King) has indicated that Mr. Attlee will visit Ottawa and address Parliament, but the date is uncertain. The first meeting began ahead of schedule at White House immediately after the White House luncheon. Both the luncheon and the conference were attended by President Truman, Mr. Byrnes, Mr. Attlee, Lord Halifax, Mr. iYj.ackenzie-King, the Canadian Ambassador (Mr. Lester Pearson), Mr. Truman’s chief of staff (Admiral Leahy) and his private secretary (Mr. J. H. Rowan). The Associated Press says a definite agenda has been prepared, but according to the New York Herald-Tribune’s Washington correspondent, neither White House nor the State Department would say specifically what subjects were on it. However, some observers believe this means that the agenda will be decided in the talks at White House and also aboard the President’s yacht.

Estimates of the length of the conference range from three days to a fortnight. It is widely believed that one issue certain to be discussed is the Palestine problem, and this belief was strengthened when Mr. Truman conferred with the United States Ministers to Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi-Arabia and Palestine.

There are distinct indications at both White House and the State Department that the atomic energy problem cannot be solved without a solution of paramount British, American and Soviet differences in Europe and the Par East. Newspapermen were informed that the opening sessions would be confined to policy talks and scientific experts would not be called in. Meanwhile Sir John Anderson, chairman of the British Advisory Atomic Energy Committee, while en route to Washington, told New York reporters that some international arrangement must he made for the bomb. It has been announced from No. 10 Downing Street that Mr. Morrison will be in general charge of Government business during Mr. Attlee’s absence.