SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER, RT. HON. fl. G. MENZIES,
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 24TH SEPT., 19 ' 9
Mr Chairman I just want to intervene very briefly to
say something on behalf of the Government in this matter. The
honourable member for Scullin ( Mr. Peters) appears to be under
the impression that the point that has just been under discussion
has never been considered. I can assure him that he is
wrong. Very many aspects of this law have engaged very close
attention, But I think it is necessary to point out that when

P. M. No. 35/ 195' 9
FOR PRESS: STATEM~' ENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER
SVET UNION'SDISARMAMENT.-PROPOSAL
Since in the free world we all wish to see the end of
war, Mr. Krushchev's speech was beyond question brilliantly clever.
But what we have to consider is its concrete significance.
The existence of armaments in the world is not the cause
of international tension; international tension is the cause of
armaments. Had it not been for the Soviet Union's post-war activities
in respect of Poland, East Germany, Hungary and other Middle

P. M. No. 34/1959

Statement by the Prime Minister and Acting Treasurer, the Rt. Hon. R. G. Menzies,. CH, QC, MP.

The Prime Minister and Acting Treasurer, Mr Menzies, today announced that Mr H. N. Giles, one of the persons who were recently appointed to the Commonwealth Banking Corporation Board under the 1959 banking legislation, has been appointed as Deputy Chairman of the Board. As previously announced, Mr W. D. McDonald, has been appointed as Chairman of the Board.

Sir, I think that every speech on an occasion like this ought to be,; in with a species of confassion, and my confession will begin kby the telling of a story which has a moral but it happens to be exactly ttw opposite moral from the owe that Itm supposed to
XG'ntLn I remomber, that man, years ago it must be mny years
ago. because I vas a lawyer mid quito respestablej I was a mw)
ber of the Bar' Oo~ ineil in the State of Victoria and a omplaint, had
been made against a rather wesl~ in member of the Bar. It qmme

SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER RT. HON. R. G. MENZIES
AT THE OPENING OF THE JANET BIDDLECOMBEWING OF THE
QUEEN ELIZABETH HOME, BALLARAT, 12TH SEPTEMBER 1959
Sir, I would like to make it quite clear that I am
here today by the direct orders of a man called Dudley Erwin who
had ascertained something of my past and who said I had to come.
I claim no virtue for it, because when I said " Yes" I hadn't
realised that the second semi-final was on, and perhaps I: m
happier here than I would be there, having regard to the scores
that have been announced.

10th September, 1959

The Premier, and gentlemen, that, really, is one of the warmest receptions I have ever had in this room. Some of you with long memories will remember why I say this,,

L A 0 S
Cabinet at its meeting in Melbourne considered in detail
all aspects of the Laotian situation in which it received a comprehensive
report from the Acting Minister for External Affairs.
It had before it analyses and reports received from Australian
diplomatic missions abroad ar4 the views of Australia: s allies
and Commonwealth partners. * In the course of the meeting teletyped
reports of the then current meeting of the security council
and of the most recent reports of events in Laos were received.

P. M. No, 3311299
DENIAL ON TAXATION APPOINTMENT STATEMENT
BY THE PRIME MINISTER
The Prime Minister today commented upon a
._-port which appeared in some newspapers last week to
t'. e effect that the Government had appointed Sir Alexander
Fitzgerald as Chairman of a Committee of Inquiry
into Commonwealth taxation laws.
Mr. Menzies said that no such appoiLntment had
been made and that the Commonw~ ealth had not yet considered
the composition of the taxation enquiry committee.
The Government was looking at the terms of reference

NOT FOR PUBLICATION OR BROADCAST BEFORE 7.10 P. M. MONDAY, SEPT.?.
BROADCAST BY THE PRIME MINISTER AND ACTING TREASURER, THE RT. HON.
R. G. MENZIES, C. H. 0Q. C. oM. P.. ON MONDAY, 7TH SEPTEMBER. 1959.
P. M. No. 32/ 1959
COMMONWEALTH LOAN
Tomorrow a new Commonwealth loan opens. It is the first loan.,
this financial year. We hope that when the loan closes on 23rd
September, we will have obtained œ 50m. or more towards the borrowing
programme of œ 220m. approved by the Australian Loan Council for

SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTEA,", THE RT. HON. R. G.
MENZIES AT CENTRAL METHODIST MISSION ON SUNDAY,
6TH SEPTEMER, _ 9D
I was reminded and kindly, by a newspaper yesterday
that this will be the 26th appearance of mine in this rostrum,
in this pulpit that's a long time isn't it?
When I bagan my second chapter of these appearames
about 14 or 15 years ago, Dr. Benson used to preteqyilchat I
came here to say something about the anniversary oi the second
lar but since then, in the last few years, he's become rather