SPEECH IS OF TIME

Selected Speeches and Writings

by
The Right Honourable
ROBERT GORDON MENZIES
C.H., Q.C, M.P.

Publication date: 27 October 1958
Published Price: 18/- net.

CASSELL & COMPANY LTD
London

Preface

A man who has made as many speeches and written statements as I have in my various political capacities will, I hope, be excused if he succumbs to the temptation to have some of them given a degree of permanency in book form. Many of my friends have encouraged this notion, with a generous mixture of faith, hope, and charity.

In making a selection, I have sought out from many hundreds those which may in a small way add to the material available to future students of what is now recent or contemporary history, and be of some help to those who fear that the dramatic impact of modern science and technology may distort our sense of social values and further depress those human studies which remain the greatest hope of true civilization.

I am grateful to the Editors of The Times and the New York Times Magazine for permission to reprint articles which appeared in their publications.

Robert Gordon Menzies

Canberra

Contents

I  THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH

THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH OF NATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
THE EVER-CHANGING COMMONWEALTH
THE ENGLISH TRADITION

II  SOME GREAT MEN

CHURCHILL AT SEVENTY FIVE
CHURCHILL AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES

III  THE SUEZ CANAL ISSUE

'NATIONALIZATION' OF THE SUEZ CANAL
THE ' DULLES PROPOSALS'
THE CASE PRESENTED TO EGYPT
THE SUEZ CANAL ISSUE
THE SITUATION IN EGYPT
'AFTER THE FIGHTING'
THE SUEZ CANAL AND THE UNITED NATIONS

IV  PROBLEMS OF DEMOCRACY

POLITICS AS AN ART
DEMOCRACY AND MANAGEMENT
FREEDOM IN MODERN SOCIETY

V  EPILOGUE

MODERN SCIENCE AND CIVILIZATION