European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The 61s who guarded the big three meeting had a closeup View of the men who were planning their by Dewitt Gilpin yank staff correspondent mar Shal from Missouri and a member of the presidential party at the big three was running around trying to Check on the kitchens of the 2d armoured division the Boss Doest like the kind of bread the soldiers have been he Canfil was a fellow officer of the presidents in the 35th division in the last no Man in the Bossy old outfit would Ever have had to eat bread like the stuff there he the Boss is a familiar figure to the gis of the 713th my battalion who draw most of the guard duty for the they say they Are already better acquainted with their Cic than they Ever were with upstage stars of civilian shows they guarded Back in the Floyd Jenkins of one of the maps who gets a guards Eye View of some of the  banquets at the Little White Hast gotten around to passing the time of the Day with the president but he is and not in the nature of anything establishing a the Truman make our country fair in my Home town every said and i suppose he will this year unless he gets tied when he comes around to talk to me i1 As going to Tell him that Here is one Cotton picking i that would like to be Back to pick a crop this that is How gis in general size up the Confer with the hard logic of men who Are personally involved in the outcome of the Confer they reason that More Unity there is among the the quicker will come the decisions that will eventually get them beefing among soldiers of a uni Versal privilege that transcends and the gis around the conference refuse to let the fact that history is being made around them still their natural As they see too Many people around the conference Are trying to look to their postwar future by doing unsolicited there was a for when some of the local brass went to work on the night of july 18 and surprised the president by getting Truman on the phone in i depend everything is strictly big Deal around said a expressing the attitude of a tired Man who has been doing four on and eight including fortunately for the cause of the non vips very important at least one from their ranks was accorded privileges above his station because of an Accident of when Harry the presidents Nephew from the 44th got a Chance to Fly in and see his he alighted from a plane at night without orders and suspicious guards finally let him Contact Albert Garfinkel of the who then bucked Young Truman through channels until he got him in the conference once things changed suddenly for the 44th division As he explained to fellow he was Over whelmed by officers who wanted to carry his that was the first time that Ever happened to said was that the president supplied the final touch to this version of a sergeants dream by taking a pm wrist watch away from a vip with the explanation that you can get another and Harry because of his free and easy manner of associating with most of the gis seem to regard Truman simply As one of them who Ful filled the old american formula of growing up to be they feel to such familiarity with marshal Stalin of the soviet who is easily the greatest drawing card for soldiers interest that this Galaxy of vips pre and this was so before the Rumor that Joe had japans surrender in his hip John Tuohy of Long who used to be a Booker for Paramount pictures and who now stands guard in front of the celebrity packed Little White describes Stalin As smaller than i expected him to but an immaculate Man who wears Beautiful added Hes the kind of Man that would attract attention in and that Mustache of his is a on one Winston Churchill made an entry from the Little White House that completely stole the show from it was near dusk on the night of july 19 a banquet that had according to those who tried to keep at least 25 Stalin left emerging from the door surrounded by his usual escort of fruit salad bedecked with All the Lusty flourishes for which the russians Are Stalin was paraded Down to his Black which Straightaway roared Down the after him the then prime minister of the British Empire came any he took a breath of fresh chewed at that Cigar and strode off resolutely Down Kaiserslautern Strasse while a couple of chaps who looked like British is the soldiers Call Fri and secret service belatedly after gis and was ogled then snapped to and his majesty minister returned them and every one noted that the line he walked Down Kaiser lantern was As straight As a Drill most of the soldiers around the conference seemed More Alert to the possibility of Church ills passing out of the big three picture than were the correspondents writing about the same at any few of the yanks expressed Surprise when they Learned the results of the British and they explained this by quoting their British buddies who were sharing details with them at not one English Soldier that i talked to thought that Churchill would be said Max Adams of who is in charge of the presidential bodyguard from time to time soldiers make contacts with other notables beside the big of spotted the russians Deputy commissar for foreign Vishin recalled his prosecution at the Moscow trials and assumed there was a rough time com ing up for War Dale Horner was told by a general who had just left the Volp mess Hall that i had a wonderful dinner and replied you should have ate what we Clint Evans of had a Little setto with Henry Stimson about the Gate Stimson was supposed to enter think ing it the Secretary of War said with some i suppose you have to carry out disproving those reliable sources from which emanated journalistic dope stories of Amer Ica russian guards like Wallace Calvin of South and Floyd Stewart of work with their russian guards outside the conferences in the Cecelie Hof building with no the rus Sian guards Range in rank from majors to first they rate it a great Honor to guard people like Truman and Churchill hence no As the russian guards rate a Vodka ration which they sometimes share with the duty Wallace and Floyd get along Well with the pert russian girl interpreters at the conference but they think that this fraternizing is the Only thing that sometimes makes the russian guards take a dim View of another thing that the russians find hard to understand is the american soldiers habit of making up funny stories that poke Ribald fun at All the National mos told joke Here concerns watches five minutes in Berlin convinces any one that the russian Soldier will buy any watch for 10 times its and the Story has Stalin saying to Churchill on the occasion of their first meet ing How much for your watch the social life around the conference has been restricted to the conference and on one occasion the berlins drowsy night was filled with cops from the British and russian is american combat officers who Are Lucky enough to draw Liaison assignments at the meet ing come in for such unexpected pleasures As squirting american girl secretaries into Berlin for a look at the night and one first lieu tenant from the 2d up with one of Jimmy Byrnes i just Hope an my stops me with her in a