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                  #680, Nineteenth, from London             
 
                                                            
 
 
In a very forceful Speech asked whether we thought everything 
      had been done about this situation and whether we had any plan 
      and the Right Honorable Baronet the member for S. W. Bethnal 
      Green (Sir P. Harris) spoke in much the same strain and so did 
      other members also. I must Say, speaking I think for the government 
      in this, that we are not fully satisfied with the existing machinery 
      for international cooperation on the political plane. We have 
      been troubled about this for some time. It was We also more than 
      a year ago at the MOSCOW conference first suggested the need 
      for some further machinery. We first proposed a set-ting up of 
      what has now become the European Advisory Commission to which 
      the Right Honorable Baronet referred. That commission has done 
      invaluable work. The fruits of that work will be seen after the 
      defeat of the enemy and of the satellite countries when these 
      problems will have to be dealt with, but they have neither the 
      authority nor the representation sufficient to deal with many 
      of the other problems that confront us. It may be that he can 
      improve on that machinery and that there ought to be more frequent 
      contacts, not necessarily between the heads of governments, who 
      have heavy charges to bear who cannot be constantly meeting, 
      but perhaps between the foreign Secretaries. The contacts might 
      be very frequent, I do not know, but