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      "0nly a short time separates us from the Moscow conference 
      of the three Foreign. Ministers of the allied powers, the decisions 
      of which not only demonstrated the strengthening of friendly 
      co-operation between Great Britain, the U.S.S.R; and the U.S.A. 
      in the war period, but laid the basis for fruitful work together 
      after the war. But what a tremendous step forward has now been 
                     taken along this path?"                
 
                                                            
 
 
I am convinced that that is true. Let me try to sum up the 
      results of the Teheran meeting. The first result is that the 
      war will be shortened. The close co-ordination of all our military 
      plans which was reached at the conference will ensure it. Clearly, 
      we can do better when there is a close interplay at every move, 
      which we have not had until now. The Teheran conference laid 
      the plans to this end. All is now agreed. Every plan is now agreed, 
      and the timing is now agreed, and, in due course, the decisions 
of the Teheran conference will be unrolled on the fields of 
 
                                                            
 
 
Even this is not all, because victory is a means to an end, 
      and the end is a peace that will last. More than once before 
      Allies have stood together in war and fallen apart in peace. 
      In the last year or so many Home. Members in all parts of the 
      House must have said to themselves, "Is this going to be 
      our experience once again?" Well, that will certainly be 
      Germany's game. Let the House not doubt to. She will play it 
      with all she knows from the moment the last shot is fired --- 
      to sow confusion, to sow doubt end division. That will be Germany's 
      game, and thus to order for the next war. This recurrent threat 
      of war can only be met if there is an international order firmer 
      in strength and until than any enemy that can seek to challenge 
      is there or is there not the possibility of creating such an 
                 order? Do the foundations exist?           
 
                                                            
 
 
Six months ago I could not be given may certain answer. It 
      might have been so; it might not have been so. B %ut today I can 
      give the answer. It is an empathetic "yes" The foundations 
      do exist, and I am truly confident that there is a possibility, 
      and more than a possibility, a desire, among the three powers 
      for continued co-operation not only during the war, not: only 
      in reshaping Europe when the armistice comes, but also, thereafter, 
      in maintaining in the world an orderly progress and continuing 
      peace. The foundations of that understanding were laid by us 
      in