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#680, Nineteenth, from London
I can te11 the House in answer to the question which has been
put that this issue of the machinery of our collaboration will
certainly be among those which will have to be examined at the
meeting which rumor has it - I do not know - is to be held at
some time or other Somewhere or other. I would only add that
as far as our contribution is concerned we are prepared bodily
to place ourselves at disposal to any extent which may be required
in order that machinery may function. Before I turn to the Greek
issue let me reply to some of the questions which were put by
the Right Honorable Gentleman, the member for Wakefield (Mr.
Greenwood) yesterday. He showed some anxiety as to the part that
my Right Honorable friend might play at this meeting of the heads
of government and he said he thought my Right Honorable friend
was in danger of appeasing some of his great Allies too much.
I do not know. It is always questionable how far it is wise in
war time to express on the public platform on the floor of this
House exactly what you fee1 about the various political problems
on which you are in controversy with your allies.
It is a question of appreciation. Sometimes it is good and
sometimes it is not so good. I am bound to say that though I
have seen my Right Honorable friend in many roles I have not
so far seen him in the role of the timid