"SERIOUS BUSINESS DONE"

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23260, 23 July 1945, Page 5

"SERIOUS BUSINESS DONE"

s Held i,. I r. •.-s Aosn.—Copyrigh’. the ‘ nee is going- ah.-id and jr.uih serious businc-;s has been done.” I he Anieriean delegation reports that the B r, Thr.-e mice .?uiy 17 have met uaih anti averaged i.oreh;n sveretarj-s since July 16 have met daily and pul in hours of work. Mmuiv-i.. sua-coinmiltces arc wo>kii; ; late hi order that complete (,i.A.> i ..y be put on the desks of A c Big- Three daily for iinal discussions. Important. primary objectives, appear io have be>_ii aciiieved by the Big lliree, blit lucre is no sign oi liie news ban being iiilecl. .... After a State dinner last nignt. the Big Three .‘-pent -s. mamcai evening, states Reuter's Berlin correspondent. An American concert pianist, Bergcani. Eugene played selections ind iui« pi ci'.'(.no a n.cdei'.i iviissian cci.ii.\.ocr, Biios.uho-.ii.cn. Generalissimo K>caiin waiKcu over to the pianist,

I congratulated him and toasted him, ' and asked him to play more. List then . played Russian and American folk songs. j President Truman, at the request of ; Mr Churchill and Generalissimo Stalin, ; played Beethoven’s Minuet in G. j It is officially announced from Ber- | lin that the United States Shipping | Controller (Admiral E. S. Land), who was summoned by President Truman, i has arrived in Potsdam with his staff. U.S. Mag Hoisted i President Truman on r riday watch- ! cd the hoisting in Berlin of the United j States flag which will fly over Tokio ' when the war with Japan is won, writes a Berlin correspondent. It is the ' flag which was flying on the Capitol jin Washington when the Japanese I struck at pear! Harbour, since when |it has flown at C. -ablanca Algiers, : and Rome. In a short ept och at the ceremony • the President ‘■■aid: “Let us not forget I that we are fighting for peace and for < the welfare of mankind. W« are not ' fight Ina for conquest. If we can put this tremendous machine of < urs which I Iras made this victory possible to work ! for peace, we can look forward to the i greatest age in the history of mankind. That is what we propose to do.” Condition Of Jews Appalling Appeal To Big Three LONDON, July 20. The WorU Jewish Congress 1 st.! an urgent appeal to the j Potsdam conference, drawing j attention to (he plight of many ! thousands of Jews in Germany j and asking for immediate steps to be taken to end their misery, ilie dipicmatii ccrrcspondent i of “Th- Tim >.'• i Tiic Congrr:-., decided to appeal ’directly to rhi three loaders after i other representations had failed. i The European division of the conI gross, cn the Im::. of reports from I several detention end repatriation j camps, .suites th;’* .nearly three 1 months ait'T the li’ •atie-n of Europe 'thousands of o’, the Nazi .tenor are s’.ill u: . lined as virtual ; prison cis “in covdi’:ci:s oi most ‘ ab.’ecl mismy. h-Tog treated with , ca-ious and shameful neglect, and imd !rer n n f e" b; the Allied' military ' amhorhif s. ! The European division of the congress on .'nr.: 26 wrote to Mr Churchill permission lor a dcl'-gation to visit the camps. Mr U’lurch ill. cn May 5. replied thm t•’,< ‘ion was tor the military amhoritms. and he referred it io the War C.-'.ce. with mi expression .of his hope i? <' IT? request would be given •' nir.ffh tic eonAT ration. A Jew: h an said there was a de; d ; O'T in th • War Office, biu the Uureien Gffic • bad shown sv-■ ;th He mv/■/'-' throughout. 'file cimdnimi:; hi ib.c Lmiceestut Ca . horn in? i '■ J- ’, i h women, were dc'/'A’-ed as >p,wiling. The J ‘ : h milho .>• report d that then* were P< ‘ • a mmm,- m Belsen. J2 600 of v.!:< i! were m iios’ ital. Be ’ cn 70 e :d 00 p. cer.t. were Jr’ i n. A: Mmien C n-ip J-’A.- wrrr housed in ••.nd "' /. • i ’n-.’ hutments. and memr: l .! - './i s. and th- Nazis were i !hmr former imis.