ZOR PRESS P. M. Ho. 63/ I964
AIR TRANSPORT
Statement by the Prime Minister, the Ht. Hon. Sir Robert Menzies
After recent airline litigation, the position
of the Commonwealth x was carefully considered.
In the result, I wrote to each Premier
offering certain views and suggesting certain future
action. It has never been my practice to publish
letters to the Premiers until they have had ample time to
receive and consider them.
Sir Thomas Playford, alone, has now thought
fit to make public my letter.
In the circumstances, I will now approach

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA.
SPEECH BY
Rt. Hon. SIR ROBERT MENZIES,
M. P.,
ON
AOMN ELI PRIME MINISTERS'
D CONFERENCE,
[ From thre Parliamentary Debates," 18.8.64.)
Sir ROBERT MENZIES ( Kooyong-
Prime Minister)-by leave-After I
returned from my overseas visit, and Parlia,-
ment not being in session, I gave a long
Press and television interview. It is not
my purpose to repeat all that I then said
-the verbatim tape record will be availleto
honorable members-but I do proeto
say something about some of the

DINN'ER IN~ HONOUR OF THE RT. HON. SIR GAR~ FIELD BARWICK
IN M. L. CO BiUILDING NORTH SYDNEY
ON 1 5TH AU3UST, 1964
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drink Sir Gaifi 6 bealth. 64/ 099
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princiWa teast od & a eyoubig but I am.% to dB soe ' 01 OwO.
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FATHER OF THE YEAR 1964
PRESENTATION AT HOTEL AUSTRALIA, SYDNEY 14th AUGUST, 1964
Speecha by the Prime Minister; the rit. Hon,, Sir Robert Menzies
Sir and Chief Justice
I say to the Chief Justice that on behalf of
my wife T thank you for this handsome souvenir. For the
first three or four days I will begin to think that it's
mine. A little later my wife will be saying to me, " Where
are those silver trays of ours?" ( Laughter) and then in a
year's time she will say, " Where is my silver tray?" kLaugnter)

THE FEDEiZATION OF PARENTS AND CITIZENS' ASSOCIATIONS
Y. V. C. A. S YDNY 14-th AUGUST. 1964
Speech_ bL_ the Prime inistetEe. n-et enzies
Mr. President, Mr. Minister, the Director and Ladies and
Gentlemen If I haven't on a former occasion appeared before
you, or those vho work with you, I can assure you that it isn't
the fault of your former President, because Sid Liebert and I
were at school together; he was known as " Skinny", and I Has
skinny; so you can tell it was a long, long time ago. Welve

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA.
SPEECH BY
Rt. Hon. SIR ROBERT MENZIES,
M. P.,
ON
9INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS.
( From the " Parliamentary Debates 13.8.64.]
Sir ROBERT MENZIES ( Kooyong-
Prime Minister) [ 11 propose to sacy
something at, perhaps, some little length
about the events in and around Vietnam,
but before I do so, I think I should make
a reference to one or two points that have
been made by the Leader of the Opposition
( Mr. Calwell). I think the honorable gentleman
has almost a fixation about me. I

FOR PRESS P. M. No. 61/ 1964
ESTABLISHMENT OF A JOINT AUSTRALIAN-AMERICAN
EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
Statement by the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Menzies
The Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, announced today
that the Governments of the United States and Australia have
agreed to establish a joint Australian-American Eduational
Foundation. It will succeed and be modelled upon the Fulbright
Scheme. Beginning with the present financial year, the two
countries will contribute equally to provide an aniual budget not

PRESENTATION OF HOOVER AdIARDS FOR MAKTING
A~ T OTEL hiX-AT-CANBERRA4 CANBERRA
Speech bU the Prm Mln-trh Rjt. Hion, SirRoberU enis
Sir, I begin all my speeches by a couple of preliminary
remarks. One is that when I was invited to come to this
enterprise, I burst into loud moans and said, " Oh, no. Look
I have to prepare about eight or ten speeches over that period,"
and then somebody said to me, " vK6,1l, of course, Professor
Baxter has invited you" and, do you know I must confess, I am
a little frightened of this chap. ( Laughter) In adidition to

FOR PRESSP. M. 59L19
FORESTRY EDUCATION PT THE AUSTRALIAkN NATIONAL
UNIVERSITY
Statement by the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Menzies
The Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, announced
today that the Government, following agreement with the
Australian National University, has approved that the functions
of the Australian Forestry School will be carried out by the
Australian National University.
The Australian National University will establish a
Department of Forestry in the Faculty of Science of the School

JOURNALISTS' CLUB 2' TH ANNIVERSARY DINNER
SYDNEY. N. S. W. 31 st JULY. 1964+
Speech by the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Menzies
Sir, It is a very difficult and dangerous thing for a
politico to make a speech to newspapermen. ( Laughter)
Something you said reminded me of the fact that quite a number
of years ago, but after the occasion to which Ken Slessor
referred I was given a dinner this seems most improbable
but still it's true by some newspapermen when I was in
Melbourne. It was a very, vezy good dinner7 and there was