【正文】 e Communisttrained Marshal Tito39。s claims to former Italian territory at the head of the the future of Italy hangs in the one cannot imagine a regenerated Europe without a strong my public life I never last faith in her destiny, even in the darkest will not lose faith , in a great number of countries, far from the Russian frontiers and throughout the world, Communist fifth columns are established and work in plete unity and absolute obedience to the directions they receive from the Communist 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 are somber facts for anyone to have recite on the morrow a victory gained by so much splendid radeship in arms and in the cause of freedom and democracy。but we should be most unwise not to face them squarely while time outlook is also anxious in the Far East and especially in 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 this country you all so wellinformed about the Far East, and such devoted friends of China, that I do not need to expatiate on the situation have, however, felt bound to portray the shadow which, alike in the west and in the east, falls upon the was a minister at the time of the Versailles treaty and a close friend of , who was the head of the British delegation at did not myself agree with many things that were done, but I have a very strong impression in my mind of that situation, and I find it painful to contrast it with that which prevails those days there were high hopes and unbounded confidence that the wars were over and that the League of Nations would bee do not see or feel that same confidence or event he same hopes in the haggard world at the present the other hand, ladies and gentlemen, I repulse the idea that a new war is inevitable。still more that it is is because I am sure that our fortunes are still in our own hands and that we hold the power to save the future, that I feel the duty to speak out now that I have the occasion and the opportunity to do do not believe that Soviet Russia desires they desire is the fruits of war and the indefinite expansion of their power and what we have to consider here today while time remains, is the permanent prevention of war and the establishment of conditions of freedom and democracy as rapidly as possible in all difficulties and dangers will not be removed by closing our eyes to will not be removed by mere waiting to see what happens。nor will they be removed by a policy of is needed is a settlement, and the longer this is delayed, the more difficult it will be and the greater our dangers will what I have seen of our Russian friends and Allies during the war, I am convinced that there is nothing for which they have less respect than for weakness, especially military that reason the old doctrine of a balance of power is cannot afford, if we can help it, to work on narrow margins, offering temptations to a trial of the Western Democracies stand together in strict adherence to the principles will be immense and no one is likely to molest however they bee divided of falter in their duty and if these allimportant years are allowed to slip away then indeed catastrophe may overwhelm us time I saw it all ing and I cried aloud to my own fellowcountrymen and to the world, but no one paid any till the year 1933 or even 1935, Germany might have been saved from the awful fate which has overtaken here and we might all have been spared the miseries Hitler let loose upon never was a war in history easier to prevent by timely action than the one which has just desolated such great areas of the could have been prevented in my belief without the firing of a single shot, and Germany might be powerful, prosperous and honored today。but no one would listen and one by one we were all sucked into the awful surely, ladies and gentlemen, I put it to you, surely, we must not let it happen can only be achieved by reaching now, in 1946, by reaching a good understanding on all points with Russia under the general authority of the United Nations Organization and by the maintenance of that good understanding through many peaceful years, by the whole strength of the Englishspeaking world and all its is the solution which I respectfully offer to you in this Address to which I have given the title, “The Sinews of peace”.Let no man underrate the abiding power of the British Empire and you see the 46 millions in our island harassed about their food supply, of which they only grow one half, even in wartime, or because we have difficulty in restarting our industries and export trade after six years of passionate war effort, do not suppose we shall not e through these dark years of privation as we have e through the glorious years of not suppose that half a century from now you will not see 70 or 80 millions of Britons spread about the world united in defense of our traditions, and our way of life, and of the world causes which you and we the population of the Englishspeaking Commonwealths be added to that of the United States with all that such cooperation implies in the air, on the sea, all over the globe and in science and in industry, and in moral force, there will be no quivering, precarious balance of power to offer its temptation to ambition or the contrary there will be an overwhelming assurance of we adhere faithfully to the Charter of the United Nations and walk forward in sedate and sober strength seeking no one39。s land or treasure, seeking to lay no arbitrary control upon the thoughts of men。if all British moral and material forces and convictions