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01 January 1949
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31 December 1969
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MS 4936-Papers of Sir Robert Menzies/Class. Original Consignment/Series 6/File 427a
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SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER, THE RT. HON.  

SIR ROBERT MENZIES, KT, CH, QC, MP, AT THE  

♦ ENGLISH SPEAKING UNION, LONDON, ON THE  

OCCASION OF THE LAUNCHING OF THE WINSTON  

CHURCHILL MEMORIAL TRUST APPEAL  

ST FEBRUARY. 1965  

What we are proposing to do in Australia is to set  

about having an appeal which will probably open and close on  

one day February 28 th, 1965·  

You may think this is little dramatic but we are  

celebrating very dramatic man. Of course donations will be  

received and are, believe, already being received before  

February 28th, But our modest ambition is that by the close  

of that day, we in Australia will have raised Â£A ,000,000,  

We believe that we will. believe that if wo can do that,  

much larger sums of money can be expected from much larger and  

richer countries.  

Now having said that, may say this to you in the  

broad, went down the other day to Westminster Hall and  

was pleased to see how many young men and women and boys and  

girls were passing through Westminster Hall, because, you  

know, men are easily forgotten and the names of even the  

greatest of men may suffer some kind of eclipse for while.  

But it is vital that this name should never be  

forgotten and it is vital that this man should never be  

forgotten. It is vital that his spirit, touched with immortal-  

ity as it was, should continue to be immortal, living thing,  

continuing presence among many generations to come in  

countries which speak the English language language in  

which he, by the miracle of science, was able to address so  

many scores and scores of millions of people during the war,  

reaching them, touching them, inspiring them, driving  

pessimism underground. None of us who lived through all this  

could ever forgot it, think we have great task here to  

see that it is never forgotten.  

Sometimes in the course of one’s life one incurs  

debt and the debt may perhaps bo discharged by one blow, by  

one payment, by one act, but this is not debt of that kind.  

This is debt which is part of our inheritance it will never  

be fully discharged.  

If our grandchildren and great-grandchildren are living  

in freedom, they will be his debtors, because at the crucial  

moment in modern history it was he more than anybody else who  

inspired the public will and who made victory certainty.  

This is continuing debt, and continuing debt is not paid  

merely by having monument, great though it may be, merely by  

having some inscription on some tablet in some place. It must  

be paid in continuing fashion.  

And that is the beauty of this conception which was  

worked out hero in this country and was taken to us and to  

other people and was understood and acted upon. This is  

marvellous conception because in 200 years’ time, there will  

be Churchill fellows, men and women of all sorts of colours,  

all sorts of religious beliefs, all sorts of experiences,  

» Â· Â«/2  

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