【正文】 far as we are concerned. we aim at nothing but mutual assistance and collaboration with russia. the british have an alliance with portugal unbroken since the year 1384, and which produced fruitful results at a critical moment in the recent war. none of these clash with the general interest of a world agreement, or a world organization。 on the contrary, they help it. in my father39。s house are many mansions. special associations between members of the united nations which have no aggressive point against any other country, which harbor no design inpatible with the charter of the united nations, far from being harmful, are beneficial and, as i believe, indispensable.i spoke earlier, ladies and gentlemen, of the temple of peace. workmen from all countries must build that temple. if two of the workmen know each other particularly well and are old friends, if their families are intermingled, if they have faith in each other39。s purpose, hope in each other39。s future and charity towards each other39。s shortingsto quote some good words i read here the other daywhy cannot they work together at the mon task as friends and partners? why can they not share their tools and thus increase each other39。s working powers? indeed they must do so or else the temple may not be built, or, being built, it may collapse, and we should all be proved again unteachable and have to go and try to learn again for a third time in a school of war inparably more rigorous than that from which we have just been released. the dark ages may return, the stone age may return on the gleaming wings of science, and what might now shower immeasurable material blessings upon mankind, may even bring about its total destruction. beware, i say。 time may be short. do not let us take the course of allowing events to drift along until it is too late. if there is to be a fraternal association of the kind of i have described, with all the strength and security which both our countries can derive from it, let us make sure that that great fact is known to the world, and that it plays its part in steadying and stabilizing the foundations of peace. there is the path of wisdom. prevention is better than the cure.a shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately light by the allied victory. nobody knows what soviet russia and its munist international organization intends to do in the immediate future, or what are the limits, if any, to their expansive and proselytizing tendencies. i have a strong admiration and regard for the valiant russian people and for my wartime rade, marshall stalin. there is deep sympathy and goodwill in britain and i doubt not here also towards the peoples of all the russias and a resolve to persevere through many differences and rebuffs in establishing lasting friendships. we understand the russian need to be secure on her western frontiers by the removal of all possibility of german aggression. we wele russia to her rightful place among the leading nations of the world. we wele her flag upon the seas. above all, we wele, or should wele, constant, frequent and growing contacts between the russian people and our own people on both sides of the atlantic. it is my duty however, for i am sure you would wish me to state the facts as i see them to you. it is my duty to place before you certain facts about the present position in europe.from stettin in the baltic to trieste in the adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the continent. behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of central and eastern europe. warsaw, berlin, prague, vienna, budapest, belgrade, bucharest and sofia, all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what i must call the soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to soviet influence but to a very high and, in some cases, increasing measure of control from moscow. athens alone greece with its immortal glories is free to decide its future at an election under british, american and french observation. the russiandominated polish government has been encouraged to make enormous and wrongful inroads upon germany, and mass expulsions of millions of germans on a scale grievous and undreamedof are now taking place. the munist parties, which were very small in all these eastern states of europe, have been raised to preeminence and power far beyond their numbers and are seeking everywhere to obtain totalitarian control. police governments are prevailing in nearly every case, and so far, except in czechoslovakia, there is no true democracy.turkey and persia are both profoundly alarmed and disturbed at the claims which are being made upon them and at the pressure being exerted by the moscow government. an attempt is being made by the russians in berlin to build up a quasimunist party in their zone of occupied germany by showing special favors to groups of leftwing german leaders. at the end of the fighting last june, the american and british armies withdrew westward, in accordance with an earlier agreement, to a depth at some points of 150 miles upon a front of nearly four hundred miles, in order to allow our russian allies to occupy this vast expanse of territory which the western democracies had conquered.if no the soviet government tries, by separate act.