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      much the intensity of the work that has to be done as the wide 
      range of subjects through which the mind has to move from one 
      to  %the other which adds so heavily to the burden. I do not believe 
      even my Right Hon. Friend the Prime Minister, ardent as we know 
      him to be for work, has ever devoted more hours of the day, and 
      alas, of the night to unremitting labor than during these conferences. 
      I am glad to be able to report to the House that, in solve of 
      that, I left my Right Hon. Friend, though perhaps a little tired, 
   in good health, stout of heart and most confident in spir
 
                                                            
 
 
Now let me describe our work. It fell into three main, easily 
      defined chapters. First, the first Cairo conference for the prosecution 
      of the-war against Japan, next the Teheran conference for the 
      prosecution of the war against Germany, and then the second Cairo 
      conference for discussions with the President and the Foreign 
      Secretary of Turkey. I propose to say something about each, and 
      also about a number of subsidiary and important matters which 
      were discussed and dealt with in both Cairo and Teheran. The 
      greater part of the time of the first two conferences in Cairo 
      about the Far East, and in Teheran about the war against Germany, 
      were taken up with military matters. It was possible for us to 
      bring these matters to a state of complete sad collective preparation 
      far exceeding anything that had hitherto been realized in this 
      war. The thought is, I think, quite well expressed in two sentences 
      of the Teheran communiqué, to which I draw the attention 
      of the House because they are, I think, the most important of 
                         all. It states:                    
 
                                                            
 
 
"Our Military Staffs have joined in our round table discussions 
      and we have concerted our plans for the destruction of the German 
      Forces have reached complete agreement as to the scope and timing 
      of the operations which will be: undertaken from the east, west 
                           and south."                      
 
                                                            
 
 
That is a message which it has never,  %as yet, been possible 
      to give to the allied peoples in this war. The words must ring 
      ominously in German and in those of Germany's unhappy satellites. 
      They could be applied textually to the earlier conference at 
      Cairo in respect of the Far East. That conference had certain 
      social features. It gave the Prime Minister, for instance, his 
      first opportunity of meeting the Generalissimo and Madame