party is seriously hampered by having to support the communist-trained marshal tito's claims to former italian territory at the head of the adriatic. nevertheless the future of italy hangs in the balance. again one cannot imagine a regenerated europe without a strong france. all my public life i never last faith in her destiny, even in the darkest hours. i will not lose faith now. however, in a great number of countries, far from the russian frontiers and throughout the world, communist fifth columns are established and work in complete unity and absolute obedience to the directions they receive from the communist center. except in the british commonwealth and in the united states where communism is in its infancy, the communist parties or fifth columns constitute a growing challenge and peril to christian civilization. these are somber facts for anyone to have recite on the morrow a victory gained by so much splendid comradeship in arms and in the cause of freedom and democracy; but we should be most unwise not to face them squarely while time remains.
the outlook is also anxious in the far east and especially in manchuria. the agreement which was made at yalta, to which i was a party, was extremely favorable to soviet russia, but it was made at a time when no one could say that the german war might no extend all through the summer and autumn of 1945 and when the japanese war was expected by the best judges to last for a further 18 months from the end of the german war. in this country you all so well-informed about the far east, and such devoted friends of china, that i do not need to expatiate on the situation there.
i have, however, felt bound to portray the shadow which, alike in the west and in the east, falls upon the world. i was a minister at the time of the versailles treaty and a close friend of mr. lloyd-george, who was the head of the british delegation at versailles. i did not myself agree with many things that were don
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