Moscow. They have been strengthened and confirmed in Tehersn.
We three worked together, We have set our hands to the task,
and heavy is our responsibility to ensure that we do not f
I would like to give two illustrations of the beginning that
has been made. When I came back from Moscow a month ago I told
the House that we had set up there an advisory council for Italy,
on which there would be representatives of our country, the United
States, Soviet Russia, and France. That committee --that council
-- has begun its work. Its members have had a number of meetings.
They have been to Italy and surveyed the position there. I had
the opportunity when I was away to see the representatives of
all four of the countries, and each and all told me that the
work was proceeding smoothly and well, That is the first st so.
And then there, is the advisory commission for Europe, the commission
agreed on in Moscow, which is to sit here in London. That has
now been completed by the nomination by the United States of
the American Ambassador in London, Mr. John Winant, a most admirable
choice. I understand I am not telling secrets about another body
which is to have its first preliminary informal meeting tomorrow,
that is the beginning. These two bodies were planned in Moscow,
but the scope of their work was really increased by the decisions
taken at Teheran.
I will now mass to another matter Turkey, was decided in Teheran
to invite the president of the Turkish Republic to attend a conference
with the representatives of the three powers - The United States,
Soviet -Russia and ourselves in Cairo, on what was our homeward
Journey. The Turkish President accepted and he was accompanied
by his Foreign Secretary and the Secretary General of the Turkish
Foreign Office. The British, and the American and the Soviet
Ambassadors in Ankara accompanied him. Unfortunately, Mr. Vyshiusky,
who was to have been the Russia representative to join us in
their capacity, was % away at the front in Italy, and he could
not reach us until after the close of the talks, but I was able
to see him before I left Cairo, and I gave him a full account
of all that had passed, and discussed with him the outcome of
our work. These conversations were in the nature of a fuller
and more complete development of the earlier meeting which I
had had with the Turkish Foreign Secretary five weeks ago. I
clearly cannot at this stage give details of these confidential
discussions - too many people might be listening- but i can say
that I have good hopes that they will