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which is unconscionably long for a speech but ludicrously 
      short for the subject the more prominent features of the world 
      war. I will just add that we must keep our eye on the jet-propelled 
      fighter aircraft on the V-rockets and above all on the renewed 
      U-boats menace. No doubt there are other dangers but taking the 
      position as a whole I have never at any time been able to present 
      a more confident statement to the house of the ever-growing might 
      and ascendancy us. That is why I was so glad to hear that the 
      President said in public on Tuesday that he was almost immediately 
      starting to meet me and Marshal Stalin somewhere or other and 
      quite soon. The Foreign Secretary and I with of the United Nations 
      or of the military solidarity of the three great Allies. Political 
      misunderstandings and difficulties of an essentially minor rank 
      undoubtedly confront our military and technical advisers will 
      be present without fail at the rendezvous and "when the 
            roll is called up yonder we'll be there."       
 
      I have great hopes of this conference because it comes at a moment 
      when a good many moulds can be set out to receive a great deal 
      of molten metal and also at a moment when direct advance may 
      be made towards the larger problems which will confront