Day Off

Winston Churchill's trip home to get the bad news gave Harry Truman a respite from Potsdam conferences. One day last week he climbed into a plane and flew to Frankfurt am Main to pay a call on General Dwight Eisenhower, who took him for a 100-mile Rhine Valley tour.

He inspected the 3rd Armored Division (lined up along a dusty road near Neu Isenburg) and the 84th Infantry Division (standing at stiff attention along another road near Weinheim). When he asked Sergeant Wayne B. Hoover, of Andover, O., how long he had been there and whether he wanted to go home, all young Hoover could do was gulp emotionally. Said President Truman to his homesick occupation troops: "I hope when you come home you will find home as you want it."

That evening he was back in Potsdam, waiting for new Prime Minister Clement Attlee to show up and get on with the conferences, at which--so said top sources --he was making an impressive showing (see INTERNATIONAL).

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