Second Meeting With Stalin Probable

Chronicle (Levin), 5 August 1948, Page 5

Second Meeting With Stalin Probable

-Reuter.

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Received Thursday, 10.30 a.m. LONDON, Aug. 4. A responsible souree in Moscow said that the flrst official reaction from abroad to ihe Three Power talks with Marshal Stalin have been received in the Russian capital, says the Associated Press' Moscow correspondent. Dispatches from the other two capitals are awaited hourly. ° Reuter's diplomatic correspondent says that Sir William Strang and the French and United Staies Ambassadors met in London today. They are believed to have discussed the co-ordination of the Western Powers' policy on the next step in the dipioma.ic exchange. The next move will probably be an interview with Marshal Stalin or M. Molotov. Meanwhile, the Soviet authorities in Germany have reopenedthe border between Thuvingia "in the Soviet Zone and Bavana in the Uni.ed States Zone for traffic on a smail scaie, reports ''the German news agency. The Russian-licensed Berliner Zeitung stated today that 45 special trains from the Wes.ern Zone wonld pass through the Soviet Zone to Leipzig for the Leipzig Fair from Augusc 29 to September f>. Other German papers quoted the Russians as saying that the line to Berlin, which has been closed to Western traftic for "technical reasons," would be opened for these trains. The air lift to Berlin continues. Sixteen Arnerican jet planes, which arrived in Gsrmany two weeks ago, retnrn to the United States tomorrow. Tweive Shooting Star jet fighters unloaded at Glasgow today are the forerunners of a fleet of 81 jet planes which are to be assembled and flown to Germany.