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By ANDREW TULLY Secripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Apr. 24 (11:01 a. m.)~—President Truman sald today sent Joe: Stal an itis , telling o withdraw his troops from Iran, ii
WASHINGTON, Apr. 24 (1 p. m.)~The White House
Now fade to:
A sumptuously furnished office in the Kremlin, At one end of the long room, seated at a solid gold desk, bose Stalin is reading a flash from the
Soviet news agency, Tass. He hammers with his fist on a diamond-studded button on his desk, A general, his chest a jungle of ‘medals, enters. Stalin: Bo, Aloysius Andreivitch O'Zlotnik. You come at last.
Gen. O'Zlotnik (cringing): Yes, sire.
Stalin (now vivid): Do you know what I'm reading? (He waves the paper in Gen. O'Zlotnik’s face.) T am reading about how. President Truman sent.me an ultimatum, telling me to get my troops out of Iran, or else. Gen. O'Zlotnik (cringing a
Jimmy Byrnes, Harry Differ on Iran Story
By ALBERT M. COLEGROVE | Seripps-Howard Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, Apr. 25—That isn’t the way James F. Byrnes remembers it, The man who was U, 8. Secretary of State in 1945-47 took detailed exception today to President Truman’s story of how the President bulldozed Stalin into taking Russia's troops out of Iran, Mr. Truman said yesterday he sent a personal meéssage—through regular channels — to Stalin in 1945 or 1946. Here is what Mr. Byrnes, now governor of South Carolina, says: «I would think ‘regular channel¢’ means through the State tment. DiThe State Department did not transmit any ultimatum to Stalin, We did not tell Russia that we would take any action on our own, independent of thé line.” Mr. Truman said yesterday we had a mobilized Army and Navy to back up his message at the time he warned Stalin. Mr, Byrnes recalls: “This was-several months after Japan's surrender. Much of our Avmy and Navy had melted away like hailstones in July. The truth is, we just didn’t have the military force. I had to talk Tow in those days. “you know, you don’t say fight-| ing words to an armed man unless you have a pistol in your pocket.” Trieste Case Mr. Truman also said yesterday that, a little while after the Iran matter, Yugoslavia decided to take Trieste (the international city which is bordered by Italy and Yugoslavia). But, said the President, he ordered the Mediterranean Fleet to the Adriatic Sea and told Gen. Eisenhower to send three divisions into Northern Italy, and there was no march on Trieste. Says Gov. Byrnes: “Tn February, 1946, I agreed to the late Defense Secretary James Forrestal’s proposal to have a task force in the Mediterranean. In June, 1946, Mr, Forrestal and I agreed it would be a good idea to send casual cruisers unannounced into the Mediterranean. “But that was to reassure Turkey and to give pause to Russia, not to intimidate Yugoslavia. “I regret to see Tito brought
‘No-Smoking' Issue Stirs Methodists
By United Press SAN FRANCISCO, Apr. 25—A no-smoking pledge for candidates for the Methodist ministry was “indefinitely postponed” today amid indications it will provoke a hot floor battle when it finally comes up before the Methodist General Conference. The issue arose during a gen-
eral business meeting yesterday| on the (second day of the two-
week conference when Bishop Gerald H. Kennedy of Portland, Ore., presented the report of the Commission of the Ministry. ‘The report included a recommendation that ministerial candidates not be required in the future to take the no-smoking pledge. As soon as Bishop Kennedy left the microphone, a parliamentary battle over disposition of the report began. The anti-smokers wanted to bring the report to the floor where they hoped to kill the suggested change. Those opposed to the pledge wanted it referred to the committee on the ministry, where the change could be written into legislation before it reaches the floor. By a close vote, the 720 delegates decided to take up the re-
«port on the floor of the conference ~ Monday without referring it to
committee. However, Rev. Oscar Thomas Olson, of Cleveland, O., and chairman of the committee on the ministry, reported the committee’'s proposed legislation would not be ready by Monday. The conference then decided to postpone consideration of the report indefinitely. The decision will give the committee time to write legislation killing the no-smoking pledge.
Japs Hope ‘for U. S. Loan Topping $1 Billion
WASHINGTON, Apr. 25 (UP) -~Japan has indicated it Will soon ask the United States for more than $1 billion in loans, it was revealed today. Japanese officials have already opened informal negotiations with the U, 8. Export-Import Bank. It’ these go smoothly, they plan to'submit an official request.
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little faster): An ultimatum, sire? Stalin: Yes, an ultimatum.
(His voice rises to a scream) and I never saw it. I, Josef Stalin, master of the Soviet Union, protector of the bureaucrats, I never saw it. Gen. 0'Zlotnik (summoning up courage): But sire, I doubt if there was such an ultimatum. As you know, I have been " commissar of the uitimatum di-
vision for 12 years and I have
no recollection of it. Stalin: Bah.’ You lie, dog. It is a plot against me. He gets up and starts pacing the floor. Stalin: Why don’t I ever get to see these interesting ultimstums? Why am I al-
into this, since he is working with Sd
us these days.”
Gov. Byrnes, interviewed by the
telephone at his desk in Columbia, 8. C, sald the Iran matter hap- | pened this way: At Tehran in 1042, agreed by President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Churchill and Stalin that the three coun-
tries would take their troops from |
Iran within six months after the enemy surrendered. “I sent a firm message to the Soviet in December of 1945, as I recall it,” he sald, “reminding the Soviet government of the Tehran pledge. “Then, when I went to Moscow in the middle of the month, I took a personal letter from Mr. Truman to Stalin, in which he asked Stalin about many matters, including Iran,
Conferred With Joe
“On Dec. 19, I had a personal conference with Stalin. I urged
strongly that Russia withdraw its troops from Iran.
“Stalin took the position that he had until Mar. 15, 1946, to get his troops out—and he wouldn't promise to do it by then. “I told him that if the Iran government protested to the {United Nations we would support the protest. “Stalin's reply was, in his own words, that he would do nothing to make us blush, “We never intended any action outside the United Nations. “When the Russians stayed in Iran, I went before the United Nations Security Council on Mar. 18 and argued against Russia. “That was when Mr. Gromyko took his first ‘walk.’ “The Security Council did take action, adopting a resolution to the effect that Russia should vacate Iran. “And a few days later,” Gov. {Byrnes said, “Stalin disclosed that he had ordered his troops out of Iran.”
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As Historian, Truman Is No Ball of Fire
By PETER LISAGOR
WASHINGTON, Apr. 25 (CDN) —President Truman may find it tough obtaining employment as a lecturer on history when he retires next January. This reported ambition suffered a melancholy jolt at his latest news conference, when he impressively disclosed an “ultimatum” to the Russians that was never sent. : For two hours, before the White House issued a correction, Mr. Truman appeared to have rewritten the history -of our times and dealt an ugly blow to the claims of the United Nations Security Council That body, since 1946, had pridefully pointed out to its critics that it had been instrumental in three peace-preserving actions—the Palestine truce, mediation in Kashmir, and the withdrawal of Russian troops from
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ways kept in the dark about everything? His bulky frame breaks into paroxysms of sobs. Stalin: Nobody ever tells me. anything. - He pauses in his pacing and seems to reach a decision. Stalin: Well, there are means of dealing with such matters. He turns to Gen. O'Zlotnik, “now cringing at a rate close to the Olympic record. Stalin: Go get me some commissars. cutioner. 4 Gen. O’Zlotnik: How many commissars, sire? And which ones? Stalin (beside himself with impatience): What do I care how many or what kind? Oh,
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With an almost casual disregard for history, the President said that it was an ultimatum he sent to Joseph Stalin that caused the Russians to leave Iran (or Persia, as he put'it), ~ That the White House later ‘calculated that Mr. Truman had in mind a’ published note of Mar. 7, 1946—not an ultimatum in the technical sense—hardly mitigated the President's potboiler approach to history, in the view of most observers. The President is generally held to be a simple, unpretentious man by most observers. In only one respect does he deviate from that characterization, in the opinion of these observers, and that is In his pretensions as a student of history. A few more conferences like the last, it is agreed, and the President may feel the need to
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get me ‘about a half-dozen fat, juicy ones. Gen, O'Zlotnik scurries out. Stalin reseats himself and seems -
to be mumbling to himself. From time to time unconnected words like “Truman” and “ul-, timatum” are heard.
The door opens and Gen. O'Zlotnik re-ap followed by eight commi of vary-
ing rank, Bringing up the rear is a husky individual carrying a medieval headsman's ax. Stalin: Okay, Headsman, Off with their heads. : (Being a gentle man, he fodks away while the headsman per. ° forms his grisly chore.) As the last head rolls, ond general rushes in, wa
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By LUDWELL DENNY J Soripps-Howard Foreign Editor |
WASHINGTON, Apr. 25-—Pres-| ident Truman's latest fpot-in-mouth exhibition will increase unofficial Allied pressure to limit White House foreign policy statements in press conferences to written answers,
Casual pronouncements — such| as the President's description of his “ultimatum” to Stalin which forced Russian withdrawal from Iran in 1946 — always frighten the ‘diplomats, even if accurate. Yesterday the President had to reverse himself within two hours.
Technically no Allied government would interfere with the President's method of making statements, A foreign government can only protest formally the content of the" statement and a friéndly regime usually refrains, But unofficially our foreign friends do not disguise their fear of ex tempore Presidential comments, They recognize that the Chief Executive's press confer. ence—which has no counterpart in their countries—is a substitute for the government answers to parliamentary questions abroad. But, they point out, such answers to parliamentary questions *involving major foreign policy are carefully prepared in advance and usually after study of written quesitons.
Dangers Cited
‘Three obvious dangers are inherent in off-the-cuff official remarks on diplomatic issues involving war and peace: ONE-No individual's memory) can be trusted in such matters without checking the record — and certainly not the memory of a President who must deal with 80 many issues, In this case President Truman, when he thought he was certain about the substance, could not be sure Jf the year of this alleged momentous action.
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