14 juillet à Berlin
Le drapeau français flotte sur la colonne de la Victoire
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The Pittsburgh Press (July 15, 1945)
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Big Three to meet in Kaiser’s palace
Opening session set for tomorrow
By Merriman Smith, United Press staff writer
WITH PRESIDENT TRUMAN ABOARD USS AUGUSTA (UP, July 14) – The Big Three conference will begin Monday in the former Potsdam palace of Kaiser Wilhelm, Germany’s World War I leader, it was learned tonight as President Truman and his party neared Antwerp, Belgium.
Mr. Truman will step ashore at Antwerp tomorrow, ending his eight-day Atlantic trip. Then he will make a one-hour motor trip to Brussels, where he will board a plane for Potsdam.
First historic meeting
At Potsdam, a suburb of Berlin, Mr. Truman will live in an American compound about 10 minutes away by car from the site of the formal conference sessions.
He will sit down in the Kaiser’s palace Monday for his firs historic meeting with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Generalissimo Joseph Stalin – a conference which the President hopes will promote an early end to the Pacific War and mold the foundation of a lasting peace.
No formal ceremony
Mr. Truman goes to the conference armed with concrete assurance that the United States wants to help maintain international peace – an assurance which is expected to aid him considerably, as a bargaining power, in his dealings with the British and Russian leaders.
The President’s quarters during the parley will be a 30-room house once inhabited by a citizen of Berlin. The dwelling was stripped of its furnishings during the war, but the Russians have refurnished it.
Russian troops will patrol the entire conference area, including Soviet, British and American residential compounds, but U.S. troops will guard the Chief Executive’s quarters.
At Mr. Truman’s request, there will be no formal ceremonies when he lands tomorrow.
Dodge channel mines
The President spent most of today watching the convoy of seven British warships which chaperoned the USS Augusta up the English Channel.
The channel trip was not without danger. Lookouts spotted at least two loose mines before noon.
The British ships – the cruiser HMS Birmingham and six destroyers – met Mr. Truman’s two-cruiser task force early today as it entered British waters.
The approval which the Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday gave to the United Nations Charter drafted by the San Francisco Conference is expected to strengthen Mr. Truman’s hand considerably in his dealings with the British and Russian leaders.
The committee’s action, together with the prospect of ratification of the Charter by the full Senate about August 1, is regarded as assurance that this country now is prepared to help its Allies to keep peace throughout the world – by force, if necessary.
That assurance is expected to constitute a substantial bargaining power in the President’s talks with Mr. Churchill and Stalin.
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By Dale McFeatters, Press business editor
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Italy declares war on Japan
ROME, Italy (UP, July 14) – Italy declared war against Japan today.
The Foreign Office stated that it hoped the move would help Italy become a member of the United Nations.
Italy has been seeking full status as an ally instead of co-belligerent.
The Foreign Office said Italy considered her relations with Japan broken since September 1943, when the Japs “in full violation of international law interned all Italian diplomats in concentration camps both in Japan and temporarily occupied territories.”
The declaration of war was voted unanimously by the cabinet yesterday, the Foreign Office said.
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U.S. sets up hospital for Big Three parley
Staff of dispensary picked for efficiency
By Gault MacGowan, North American Newspaper Alliance
BERLIN, Germany (July 14) – Big Three delegates will have no difficulty in obtaining a daily dose of aspiring. A special dispensary has been established in the conference area able to take care of anything from a headache to an appendectomy.
Fifteen beds await jaded occupants. Six pretty nurses will soothe feverish brows.
Staff surgeons and doctors who were picked for their efficiency and bedside manner, await the patients with ambulances, X-rays, cardiographs and the latest appliances. Airplane ambulances capable of trips to the big military hospitals at Frankfurt and Paris are available.
Has team of specialists
If there should be a case in which it was preferable to bring the physician to the patient within a few hours it would be possible to land a specialist for almost any complaint here by air.
However, Col. John Knauer, born in Reading, Pennsylvania, the chief surgeon, has a team of specialists already on the spot. His executive officer, Maj. Walter de Forest, administers conference dispensaries – one for VIPs (very important personages) and four others. Six surgeons – the best specialists available in the Berlin area – are assisting him along with one dentist.
Commands hospital
Commanding the hospital is Col. Seth Gayle. The hospital is located in a former newly-built Nazi building.
“From our first installation overseas in a Cardiganshire town with a screwy Welsh name, we came to Berlin with Lt. Gen. William Simpson’s Ninth Army,” explained Col. Gayle.