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Fix this textA Luncheon of the American Australian Association in honour
Fix this textof the Right Honorable Robert Gordon Menzies, Prime Minister of
Fix this textAustralia, was held in the Council Room of the University Club,
Fix this text1 West 51th Street, New York, New York, on Tuesday, July 24, 1956,
Fix this textMr. Floyd Blair, President of the Association, presiding.
Fix this text(The reporter arrived at the meeting at this point.)
Fix this textTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE ROBERT GORDON MENZIES; (Continuing)....
Fix this textIt is easy enough for us in our own country to think of the
Fix this text' partition of Germany as something rather remote, something that
Fix this textperhaps concerns only the German people. I think it is far more
Fix this textthan that. You cannot divide a country, a nation, in two, and
Fix this textexpect that you have established a settlement that will withstand
Fix this textthe wind and weather of victory.
Fix this textAs I said to somebody in England, it is a very much simpler
Fix this textproposition, if under some extraordinary circumstance the War had
Fix this textbeen lost and it had occurred to the victor to partition Great
Fix this textBritain, They might have decided to separate the Scots from the
Fix this textEnglish, from the Sassenachs, well, that wouldn’t have troubled the
Fix this textScots because the Scots already know they rule the Sassenacks,
Fix this textwhether directly or by indirection. It wouldn't matter very much,
Fix this textbut suppose in their folly they had cut off Northumberland, which
Fix this textis practically Scotland anyhow, and Yorkshire and Lancashire, well,
Fix this textat the end of two years of this separation, there would have been
Fix this textan irresistible movement for the resumption of the country and
Fix this textYorkshire and Lancashire probably would have been fighting for
Fix this textthe Premiership.
Fix this textThese are unnatural things and all settlements which are
Fix this textagainst the course of nature are not destined to have long life.
Fix this textBut there is in Germany, in the highest quarters, a feeling of
Fix this textanxiety, lest the world should become a little complacent about
Fix this textthe division of Germany and it should be thought that this is a
Fix this textpurely local matter which will sort itself out if left to Itself,
Fix this textNow, having said those things, I turn back because it is only
Fix this textturning a page in the same volume, to the kind of things we had
Fix this textto discuss in London and in particular, of course, we gave great
Fix this textthought and were aided by firsthand accounts of visits and exchanges
Fix this textas to what ought to be done about the Russian New Look, as somebody
Fix this textbrilliantly described it in the newspaper this morning; The Smiling
Fix this textCold War,
Fix this textIt's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
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