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5.12.1955
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Fix this textSPEECH DAY
Fix this textTHE PRIME MINISTER, THE RIGHT HONOURABLE R.G.MENZIES, C.H., Q.C., M.P.
Fix this textFirst of all I would like to say a word about the Chairman. It
Fix this textis not exaggeration when I say he is the best Chairman I have known.
Fix this textHis opening speech lasted 55 seconds and the second one for 2 minutes
Fix this text10 seconds, and if you have suffered under Chairman as frequently as
Fix this textI have you would know how I like him.
Fix this textWhen the Chairman asked the Headmaster to deliver his address,
Fix this textmy mind ran back to the celebrated story of Clarence Darrow, a noted
Fix this textcriminal lawyer in the United States. In the United States they have
Fix this textan engaging habit of inviting people to be guest speakers somewhere
Fix this textto come across the continent to some club or association, whatever
Fix this textit may be, and I have even been told, although justice has not yet
Fix this textbeen done to me, they put in a corner of the invitation ”Fee 500 dollars
Fix this textA very civilised country Indeedl The celebrated Darrow went once from
Fix this textNew York to Chicago and as he was a notable speaker the Chairman thought
Fix this textthe opportunity was too good tp miss, and as one or two chairmen I
Fix this texthave known have done, he spoke for about 40 minutes, positively basking
Fix this textin the limelight, and at the end of 40 minutes he turned around to a
Fix this textsingularly depressed Darrow and said: ”1 will now ask Mr. Darrow to
Fix this textdeliver his address.” Darrow got up like a shot and said: ”1 don't
Fix this textmind doing that at all, my address is West 42, No. 15 ... and I
Fix this textam going there right away.” Mr. Chairman, that would not happen to you,
Fix this textand that is why I approve of you as a Chairman,
Fix this textThe second thing I want to say, is it was not really difficult
Fix this textto get me to come. First of all the Headmaster although he has a
Fix this textdisarming manner, has rather a peremptory way of dealing with
Fix this textpoliticians and when he said ”dome”, I came. If he lacked anything
Fix this textin authority my magnificent friend and colleague, Eric Hardson, would
Fix this texthave ordered me to come even if I had first said No.
Fix this textThose are two reasons for coming, but the third is I think the
Fix this textbest of the lot, because the third is that I have spoken here before, in
Fix this textthis hall and on this platform. Although there is perhaps no boy here
Fix this texttoday who was here on that occasion, I would like to tell the successors
Fix this textof those boys that they have an immortal and soft place in my heart.
Fix this textIt's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
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