Marshall Tells Russian People of Confidence in Agreement on Eve Of Moscow Ministers' Conference

MOSCOW, March 9--Secretary of State Marshall, dropping into Moscow out of a blue sky, told the Russian people today that great difficulties confronted the four-power foreign ministers at their historic conference on the future of Germany and Austria, but that he was confident of agreement.

The conference will open at 5 p.m. tomorrow (9 a.m. eastern standard time) in the Soviet aviation industry building, with Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov as chairman.

As Marshall stopped out of the Army plane which brought him here from Berlin he was asked by Soviet newsmen for a message to the Russians. In a statement later broadcast over the home radio he voiced pleasure at the opportunity of having "my first real view of Russia and the Russian people, except for a brief period at remote Yalta."