Speeches

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01 January 1964
End Date
31 December 1966
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MS 4936-Papers of Sir Robert Menzies/Class. Consignment received 1993/File 36
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CIVIC SERVICE. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Â«  

CHELTENHAM. VICTORIA  

4TH APRIL. 1965  

Speech by the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Menzles  

Sir,  

Recently was in London. started off thinking  

was on holiday and ended up by attending the funeral of the  

greatest man of our time. was very impressed by number of  

matters associated with it. For example, his body lay in state  

in Westminster Hall. Westminster Hall is the most famous building  

in our history. It is very old. It was built by William Rufus,  

Dark, sombre, full of history. And there, on little dais, lay  

the coffin with its custodians in uniform, and along two lines  

through the Hall there came the citizens of London, young and old,  

thousand after thousand, paying their homage*  

had wondered very much myself whether this great  

man, who was at the peak of his greatness more than twenty years  

ago, might be forgotten by younger people. knew that grey-headed  

people like myself would never forget him; particularly those who  

like myself were fortunate enough to know him and to know him  

well. For us, it would be impossible to forget him. But ÃŒ thought  

that those who were children in the greatest moments of his glory  

might now regard him as remote historic figure of no more  

particular interest than other historic figures in the school-  

books.  

was delightfully pleased to see that good half  

of all those who came through were young, exhibiting every possible  

mixture from those who looked quite usual to boys with long hair  

and girls with short hair. They all came through solemnly, with  

respect. It was most amazing tribute and it confirmed in my  

mind the belief which have always entertained that one of the  

great things in our character is sense of continuity, that we  

are not here today and gone tomorrow, that we have had people  

before us and we will have people afper us; we being influenced  

by those before us,and influencing those who come after us. This  

is the continuing city in reality that is referred to in the Bible  

and it is great characteristic, particularly of our own people,and  

there it was that day, just as i£ was few days later in SÅ£. Paul’s  

Cathedral where the view, the picture, was unforgettable the  

Queen there attending the funeral of her great Prime Minister,  

Now said just now that knew him well, did  

Indeed, was greatly privileged, and many weekends have spent  

in his house and had many great matters to discuss with him from  

time to time, always remember with sort of sombre pride that  

on two occasions disagreed with him,and assure you, my friends,  

that took doing, because he was, of all men, the most formidable.  

But one night he said to me at the dinner-table something that  

know he said elsewhere and which know has now become familiar  

in the books. We were talking about war because this was time  

of war. It was on every night, every day* And he gave me his  

great slogan  

In War, Fury  

In Defeat, Defiance  

In Victory, Magnanimity  

In Peace, Goodwill.  

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