TIE CA1D1NAL'S DINNER
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Seech byte Prime Minister the Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Menzies
My Lord Cardinal, My Lords Bishops, Parliamentary Colleagues
and Ladies and Gentlemen This is really a most embarrassing occasion
for me. There is nothing I enjoy half so much as a hostile
audience. ( Laughter) Tinignt I have been listening to speeches,
eminently true about her, and deplorably exaggerated about me.
( Laughter) I think this is rathebad for me. I doi.' t think
a politician ought to be too much praised in his own lifetime.

FOR PRESS The following question and answer ( in themselves
complete and verbatim) from a press conference given by
President Lyndon Johnson on July 24 may be of interest
Mr. President, will you give us your
reaction to the attacks being made on
Senator Goldwater by foreign officials
and the foreign press?
A. I think that the Amrerican people are perfectly
capable of making their own decision with
regard to the parties and the candidates, and
I think that they will do that without the
necessity of advice from anyone abroad."

FOR PRESS s P. M. 58/ 1964.-
SIR JOHN LATHLAM
Statement by the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Menzies
Sir John Latham wasn one of the outstanding
Australians of our time and he will not easily be forgotten.
He gave a lifelong example of what could be done by a man
of lofty and tenacious character whose devotion to duty
was always backed by uncommon abilities and unflagging
energy. It was my good fortune to be a law student
under him and thereafter his junior and opponent at the
Bar and his successor in Kooyong and in the Commonwealth

FOR PRESS P. M. 57/ 1964
STATE FUNERAL
DEATH OF THE HON. CHARLES WILLIAM FROST
Statement by the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Menzies
The Commonwealth Government is arranging a State
Funeral for the late Mr. C. W. Frost of Hobart, Tasmania,
Minister for Repatriation and War Service from 1941 to
1946, and Aiistralian High Commissioner in. Ceylon from 1947
t. 1950. He represented the Federal electorate of Franklin
from 1929 to 1931 and from 1934 to 1946.
Mr. Frost died in Hobart on Wednesday and the

FOR PRESS P. M. No. 56/ 1964
AUSTRALIAN FORESTRY COUNCIL
Statement by the Prime Ministerg the Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Menzies
The Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Menzies,
announced today that agreement has been reached between all
Australian Governments to set up an Australian Forestry Council
as a national advisory body on forestry matters.
The Council will provide the means for the mutual
exchange of information and views between the State and Commonwealth
Governments. It will co-ordinate research into problems

PRESS, RADIO AND TELEVISION CONFERENCE
GIVEN BY THE FRIME MINISTER THE RT. HON.
SIR ROBERT MENZIES _ AT CANBERRA ON SUNDAY,
19th JULY, 1964.
PRIME MINISTER Subject to your concurrence, I think the best thing
for me to do would be to make so-me general statements of my own
about this conference. Those statements may cover some of uhe
questions that you have in mind, but it will make, I think, for
coherence if I just say scmething on my own account first.
There are two things to be said about this

STATEMNT BY THE FRINE MINISTER AT MASCOT
AIRPORT ON ARRIVAL HOME AFTER RIME MINISTERS1
CONFERENCE IN LONDON 18TH JULY. 1961+
Q. Good morning, Sir. You are looking very well, if I may
may so, Sir.
A. Oh, I'm not too bad for an old man. Tomorrow, of course,
tomorrow afternoon I will have a Press Conference
and TV interview ai Canberra. I will have had a day
in bed and recruited my mental energy. All I want to
say this morning is that I think that this conferenee
was a great succes and I suppose for some people

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WORkI ANr SPKQ D " OCOi.
StatMant bM tbe Pi. ster. tb2 Ht-Lim. Sir Robert Md pAU
The Prie Minister, sir Robert M3eniesssoon
after his return fram England today, send the follwing
telegram to 11r. Donrld Campbell s-
" YOU H1AVE ,! 43 ; PLEEkrNDID SUCCS III
6Pih ut MA& NY fRUSTfIO? 0N8 AND I s* 1' D YW
M IIEARTY CrflGRATJL. TiIJ0NS. R. G. 11LANiZES."
CA71BLRH/ I
18th July, 1964.

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E~ MBARGO NOT TO BE CABLED, BROADCAST OR TELECAST BEFORE
7.00 P. M. E. S. T. ON THURSDAY 16TH JULY, 1964.
FOR PRESS P. M. No. 54/ 1964.
VISIT OF HER ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCESS MARINA, DUCHESS OF KENT
Statemnent by the Acting Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. John McEwen, M. P.
The Acting Prime Minister today announced the dates and
itinerary which Her Royal Highness Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent,
has accepted for her visit to Australia later this year. The visit
will be for almost two weeks and its main purpose is for Her Royal

FOR PRESS: P. M. NO. 53/ 1964
EC CNOMIC C ONSULTATIONS
Statement by the Acting Prime Minister, the Rto Hon.
John McEwen
The Acting Prime Minister2 the Rt. Hon. John
McEwen and senior Ministers had meetings this afternoon
with the Manufacturing Industries Advisory Council and
the Export Development Council. This followed talks
yesterday with representatives of commerce and industry
and this morning with the A. C. T. U.
After the meeting, Mr. McEwen said that this
was the last of the present series of economic consultations