Australian Government - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Advancing the interests of Australia and Australians internationally

Australian Government - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Advancing the interests of Australia and Australians internationally

306 Churchill to Bruce

Letter LONDON, 21 October 1943

Thank you very much for your letter of October 19. [1] I can give you an assurance that you and other Dominions representatives will be kept in touch by the Secretary of State with the developments of the Moscow Conference as closely as possible. [2] With regard to attendance at the War Cabinet, I cannot undertake to make any departure from our usual practice. I am sure you will appreciate the difficulties inherent in the situation.

WINSTON S. CHURCHILL

1 Document 302.

2 Churchill had empowered Cranborne to keep Bruce 'fully informed of the course of events at Moscow'. See letter from Cranborne to Churchill of 27 October in file PRO:PREM 4/50/11.

[AA:M100, OCTOBER 1943]

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