Potsdam confab issues most complicated
LISBON (Domei, August 1) – With the issuance of the final communiqué on the Potsdam Conference expected within the next 24 hours, Sylvain Mangeot, Reuters diplomatic correspondent, today reported in a dispatch from Potsdam that the forthcoming communiqué will deal chiefly with five issues which have come to the front since the holding of the Yalta Conference in February this year.
These are briefly, firstly, the occupation and control of Germany; secondly, repatriation; thirdly, organization of future world security; fourthly, Yugoslavia; and, fifthly, Poland, he forecasts. He considered the forthcoming Potsdam communiqué as a comprehensive outline of a “three-power” policy in the first phase of European peace, as the Yalta communiqué was for the last phase of the European war.
Mangeot said the Germans are waiting with deep concern and anxiety at the expected decisions affecting the future of the Reich, the definition of the new Western boundary of Poland and also a statement of official policy regarding the fate of German nationals whose homes are in territories to be ceded by Germany to Poland.