Sir Robert Menzies

Posted in 1968

  • Sir Robert Menzies (right) with Sir Rohan Delacombe, Governor of VictoriaSir Robert suffers a small cerebral thrombosis when in London visiting his daughter Heather and spends four and a half weeks in the London Clinic. The press published photos of him coming down the steps on a walking stick. "I am not bad," he is reported as saying. "I am an old man and getting tired."
    A W Martin, Robert Menzies: A Life. Vol 2 1944-1978, 1999 p 558.

 

 

 

 

Sir Robert talks with University students after opening International House, Royal Parade, Parkville