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publication before 7.30 p. m. EST
Monday night, February 1st.
COMM4ENDATION OF WINSTON CHURCHILL 1IMORIAL TRUST BY
THE ACTING PRIME MINISTER, M R. JOHN McETJEN.
( Mr McEwen is Deputy President of the Australian Committee of the)
Winston Churchill Trust.
" As you know the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, has annnunced that
the people of Australia are to join with the people of Britain and other
countries in the establishment of the Winston Chruchill Memorial Trust.
The Trust will provide travelling scholarships.
Australians selected from all walks of life will be given opportunities
to travel overseas to improve their knowledge and experience. Those chosen
for travel as Chuirchill Fellows will not only be people in the academic
# orld. People engaged at all levels in industry, trade, commerce,
agriculture, and the arts, will be eligible.
" Sir Robert Menzies has spoken of the committees which have been
established in Australia to launch a nation-wide appeal to raise V1 millinn.
It is an accepted principle that the funds raised in Australia will be
controlled and administered by the Australian organisation established
for the purpose. We have been fortunate in securing the services of a number
of distinguished Australians as members of the national committee and of the
a tate committees which will conduct the drive for funds in co-operation with
the Returned Soldiers League. These people along with the many thousands of
voluntary workers who will take part, are giving their wholehearted support
o this grand concept.
11 I am sure that we wifll have the enthusiastic support of the
general public.
11 The Government has decided that donations made to the Fund will
be deductible for taxation purposes.
11 This Winston Churchill Memorial Trust will perpetuate the memory
of the greatest man of our lifetime. Sir Winston made his mark in history,
both in peace and war. He dedicated his life to the preservation of freedom
and democratic institutions,.
1By providing a continuing benefit to all sections of oar
community, the Trust will be a memorial which Sir Winston Churchill would
himself have approved."
CANBERRA, February 1, 1965.