Evening star., 1943-11-18
Text of Secretary HuIrs Address

The tcrt OF Secretary OF State
Hulps address to the joint meet
ing OF Congress today tollows:
| l appreciate deeply the high com.
|pliment of being invited to meet
with you today. But I appreciate
even more the fact that by your in.
vitation you have emphasized YOU
profound interest in the principle!
and policies for which the Moscow
conference stood, and in the prog.
'lress made by the participating gov.
ernments in carrying them forward
In the minds of all of us here
present and of the millions of Amer.
icans all over the country and al
battle stations scross the seas, there
is and there can be at this moment
'cUt che consuming thought-to de-
icat the enemy as speedily as pos
sible. "; have reached a stage in
the war il which the United Nations
are on the offensive in every part OF
the world Our enemies are suffer-
ing defeat after defeat. The time
will come when their desperate
movement to destroy the world will
be utterly crushed. But there are In
store for us still enormous hardShips
and vast sacrifices. The attainment
of victory will be hastened only in
proportion as all of us. in this coun-
try and in all of the United Nations,
continue to exert all possible effort
to press home our advantage with
out the slightest relaxation or devia-
ton
The glorious successes which have
already attended our arms and the
confidence which we all feel toGay
in assured, though still immensely
difficult, victory would have been
impossible if this country and Great
Britain and the Soviet Union and
China and the other victims of ag-
gression had not each risen as a
unit in defense of its liberty and
independence. They would have
been equally impossible if all these
nations had not come together in a
brotherhood of self-preservation.
Victory Can Escape.
While we are thus engaged in the
task of winning the war, all of us
are acutely conscious of the fact
that the fruits of our victory can
easily be lost unless there is among
us Wholehearted acceptance of those
basic principles and policies which
will render impossible a repetition
of our present tragedy, and unless
there is promptly created machinery
of action necessary to carry out
these principles and policies. The
Moscow conference is believed to
have been an important step in the
direction both of shortening the war
and of making provision for the
future.
The convocation of the conference
was the result of a profound con-
Vlctlon on the part of President
Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill
and Marshal Stain that, at this
stage of the war, frank and friendly
exchanges of views between reSpon-
slble representatives of their three
governments on problems of post
war, as we'll as war collaboration
were matter of great urgency. Up
to that time, such exchanges of views
had taken place on several oc-
caSiOns between our Government
and that of Great Britain. But the
exigencies of war had been obstacles
to the participation of the Soviet
government in such exchanges to the
same extent. With the accelera-
ton of the tempo of war against
Germany, the necessity became
daily more and more apparent for
more far-reaching discussions and
decisions by the three governments
than had occurred heretofore.
I went to Moscow, by direction of
President Roosevelt, to discuss with
the representatives of Great Britain
and the Soviet Union some basic
problems of international relations
in the light of principles to which
our country. under the Presidents S
leadership, has come to give wide-
spread adherence. 1t has never been
my fortune to attend an interna-
tional conference at which there
was greater determination on the
part of all the participants to move
forward in spirit OF mutual under
standing and confidence.
The conference met against the
background of rapidly changing
military situation From the east
and from the south, the Nazi armies
were being steadily hammered back
into narrower and narrower con-
fines. From the west, the Allied air
forces were relentlessly and sys-
tematicallv destroying the nerve
centers CT German industrial and
military power.
New Problems Arise.
Formidable as the war task still
is, it has been increasingly clear
that the time is nearing when more
end more of the territory held by
the enemy will be wrested from his
grasp, and when Germany and its
remaining satellites will have to go
the way of Fascist Italy. In these
circumstances, new problems arise
which require concerted action by
the Allies, to hasten the end of the
war, to plan for its immediate after
math, and to lay the foundation for
the postwar world. Our discussions
in Moscow were concerned with
many of these problems. Important
agreements we're reached, but there
zee no secret agreements. 7rd none
--'"s suggested.
O. tie military discuss orS which
tcc'-. r'~"o it con Re Ttated tat they
v'e.c in TIE direction Of fociii'atirg
closer co-operation between tho
three countries in the prosecution Of
the war against the common enemy.
I am glad to say that there is now
in Moscow a highly competent
United States Military Mission.
headed by Maj. Gen. John r. Deane
The attention of the conference
was centered upon the task of max
ing sure that the nations upon
whose armed forces and civilian