Marshall Stalin, your Excellencies, Ladies and
Gentlemen, and comrades gathered here.
I have now come
to the end of a most strenuous, but at the same time most agreeable visit to
Moscow. We have worked very hard. As I said last night, we have been a, we have
been a council of workmen and soldiers, but the generous hospitality and
cordial friendship with which we have been welcomed and sustained has left me,
and my friend and colleague the Foreign Secretary Mr. Eden, with the most
pleasant memories of these crowded and curious days. Most of all, has it been a
pleasure to me, and an honour, to have so many long, intimate talks with my
friend and war comrade Marshal Stalin, and to deal with a many difficult
questions inseparable from the united forward march of great nations through
the, through the many, through the many [sic] vicissitudes of war. I hope most
earnestly and I believe with deep conviction that the warrior statesman at the
head of Russia will not only lead the Russian peoples, all the people of
Russia, through this, these years of storm, and tempest, into the sunlight of a
broader and happier age for all. And that with him in this task will march the
British Commonwealth of Nations and the mighty United States of America.
- Prime Minster Winston S. Churchill at the conclusion
of the Tolstoy Conference in Moscow, October 19 [probably], 1944.
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