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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 
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