Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 29, 1945, Nice, Alpes Cote D'Azur                                The show goes on but an impenetrable curtain veils the big three from an anxious world audience the big Trio by Ernest Leiser stars and stripes stain writer Potsdam in a blocked off super guarded Section of this once pleasant Berlin three men with staggering Power and responsibilities Are retouching the face of the whole they Are called the big but the Job they have to do and the Poten tial strength they have with which to do it is bigger than in their task would be called the conference has reached the end of its second week after a flurry of Specula Tion that it was to wind up last thursday because of the electoral situation in prime minister Churchill had promised to return to London to be on hand personally when the election returns came though the meeting has been under Way a substantial the world outside the shaded residential the soldiers and the secret service men Are As thick As Little about what has been going nothing except what the cautious press secretaries want reporters Are still not allowed to see for themselves what rows on behind the mys Ter loaded the Only reporting going on in the compound has been done by press secretaries themselves and a Small band of soldiers who have been engaged in gathering color details of casual official entertain ment have been recorded in times even How the dignitaries what their mess is what they have in their who entertains a thousand details of their daily life have been painstakingly collected and for it has been reported that president Truman had his hair Cut by a Falls City who said youre the first president Ive this that Truman attended two Church services last sunday that marshal Stalin and the president ate creamed spinach liver and Bacon with baked Julienne string Pumpernickel bread with sliced fruit and cookies when they lunched together at the Potsdam temporary White newspaper readers also Learned that nearly gis in Berlin District Headquarters worked and sweated for two weeks to turn the site of the big three meetings into a dream Community of clipped lawns and super that mess officer John of had requisitioned such fancy items As Juicy fresh lettuce and tomatoes and hearts of celery that everything from Fly shatters to electric refrigerators had been brought in to make the big three and their advis ers comfortable that the Headquarters stocked for the occasion Creme de Rhine and Moselle but of great decisions Phe information leaked out that Admiral Emory maritime commission had been summoned to the Confer this that world shipping would have a Olace Ott the con Ference some of the worlds bes known brought to Berlin to cover the have been shut out in the cold nearly As As a Soldier isolated in some Remote Ger Man the speculation has Beri a great Deal of it has undoubtedly been Well in if any thinking person sits Down at a Globe and spins it almost any place name big enough to read has probably had some part in the discus Sions of the big three or their most immediate important Topi to Amer of is what the russians will do in the War against we need their it if the War is to be shortened and american lives the strategic position of her seasoned her Ideal location As a base would Cut Down the costly Island warfare we have been fighting and would be perhaps the greatest single Factor in speeding up the end of the that the subject was at least broached to Russia is evident from the men accompanying the president to the my of americas top military and Navy chiefs of air forces Supply Are presumably to hold discussions with their russian opposite with a War to it is doubt Ful whether they would spare three weeks from vital immediate duties for other than the most important simply because this is of the it is not Safe to assume that a definite decision will be reached by the soviets the russians have fought hard and and it would mean a great though perhaps a great ultimate for them to enter another probably considerable bargaining with the other big two would be necessary be fore Stalin commits himself to another one thing is Safe to whatever the big three decide to do about the the world will know about it Only after it has been this is one Point on which even the most crusaders against the secrecy surrounding the Potsdam there have been just As military Deci Sions on the second front were a priceless secret during the Early phases of the War against so russian decisions on Japan must be made known Only to the military and political directly con there Are a Hundred other questions of world a Good portion of which will certainly be it would be impossible to do More than list All of them instead we can examine two As examples of the of problems the first is of less but an extremely ticklish with turkeys control Over the at the Edge of the a vestigial it has been indicated that she will be deprived of territory North of the Straits and the sea of if this is Dona it must be decided whether control of the Straits will be International or whether it will be Given to the As they have already indicated they whose Power depends on her control of the or at least on the prevention of such control by seeks International control of the passage Between the Mediterranean and the Black at the other end of the closely related to the problem of the Dar is the question of what will Hap pen to this tiny territory is at present under International but sought after by Britain to Complete her ability to Seal off the Mediterranean from the West against any future with Gibraltar and Tangier in her she would be better Able to do Trie on the other that National control of the Mediterranean exit would bottle up the growing russian sea is against the British gaining control of All of the Gate to the Atlan to this particular the United states has a Chance to play the role envisioned by president Truman in Many of the the next to is of most urgent interest to All three a and which undoubtedly has figured in a great part of the is question of administering conquered Ger Many and her the original scheme of dividing Germany into occupation zones was decided at pre Vious big three and so were joint control and policy making on top under actual conditions of a Sharp contrast has Arisen in the methods employed by the Western allies and by Russia to administering their respective if there is to be a uni fied policy for All As has been hoped for by All three the big three have had to work out important far the official position is that All germans Are guilty of responsibility for the quite the the russians have indicated that they hold Only the nazis responsible and thac their eradication alone is Ali they Are they have even indicated that there Are degrees in being a nazi and that All categories cannot be lumped together and Given Simi Lar a Compromise is necessary on that question if there is to be a attitude and unified treatment of germans throughout the the russians also have begun immediate reconstruction of Antinazi political giving them favors and other encourage the and Britain have refused to allow any political parties for the time a Compromise on is in the russians have Given German artists special encouraged imme Diate reestablishment of German culture they have opened schools immediately the and Britain have Given cultural efforts scant except for the very have been kept closed until authorities feel sure that All nazi influence has been the list of such differences is Long and continued on Page