U.S. President, Secretary of State and President's Chief of Staff confer while en route to Europe. Aboard the U.S.S.

U.S. President, Secretary of State and President's Chief of Staff confer while en route to Europe. Aboard the U.S.S. Augusta, crossing the Atlantic en route to the Berlin Conference, U.S. Secretary of State Ja,es F. Byrnes, (left) U.S. President Harry S. Truman and U.S. Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, the President's Chief of Staff, confer. On July 16, 1945, President Truman, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Generalissimo Josef Stalin started a series of meetings in Potsdam, a suburb of Berlin, Germany. The foreign ministers and military leaders of the three countries are also conferring.