SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTEn,', THE RT. HON. R. G.
MENZIES AT KNOX COLLEGE, SYDNEY ON THURSDAY?
DECEMBER? l9 O
I think I ought to begin by making two apologies, one
is for the absence of my wife, who would have reoatly enjoyed
being here, but who, in a sudden onrush of what I can only
describe as eccentricity decided to have her four Melbourne
grandchildren to stay with her at the Lodge, ranging from 9 to
3J, and all of them with a considerable element of old Adam and
old Eve. ( Laughter) Therefore she wished me to make her
apologies to you.

SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER, THE RT. HON. R. G.
MENZIES, AT KING'S SCHOOL, SYDNEY, ON WEDNESDAY
14+ TH DECEMBER. 1960
This kind of speech is much the hardest kind of
speech to make. Do you realise that, all of you who suffer from
speeches and don't make them? ( Laughter) It's much the hardest
of the lot. When I arrived I looked around. I had no idea how
many political characters I knew masquerading today as Old Boys
of the King's School. This in itself is a most embarrassing
affair. Some of them, no doubt, have every right to be here.

P. M. No. 41/ 196o
HIGINBOTHAM LY-ELECTION
Statement bythe Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. R. G. Menzies
The vote is naturally disappointing, but I cannot
say it is entirely unexpected. ' i. e knelt quite well that, in
thie short run at least, our recently announced policies -ould
be unpopular. That fact alone, added to the high personal
popularity of the late Mr. Timson, made it practically
certain that there would be a substantial reduction in the
Liberal majority. In the last week of the campaign, the

SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER THE RT. HON. R. G*
MENZIES AT CRANIBROOK SCHOOL 6N SATURDAY,
DECEMBER. 1960
I call this a " softening up" process. I stand up here.
shaking hands for a long time, handing out prizes, with all the
gusto of a politician giving things away ( Laughter) and when
they have just about reduced me to a state of weakness, then a
man who used to be my friend, Sir Kenneth Street, gets up quite
blithely and says, " Now, make a speech". ( Laughter)
As a matter of fact before I begin to make a very

SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER THE RT. HON. R. G.
MENZIES, AT THE ANNUAL MEETIN4 ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED
HOSPITAL. SYDNEY. ON THE 9TH DACEMBER. 1960.
Sir, and Sir Charles, and ladies and gentlemen:
I'm in a very low state today, having been out of my
bed last night until 4+ o'clock helping to make a mess of
Parliamentary proceedings. And I am therefore liable, I warn
you, at any tick of the clock, to go to sleep, even before you
do. ( Laughter) But at any rate I have been fascinated this
afternoon by a variety of matters. One in particular is that a

FOPXRS SDHEPEA RTMENT OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS
FOR THE PRESS CANBERRA
FELEA SED ONLY IN CANBERRA PR 131 gtQ
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
Statement by the Prime Minister and Minister
for External Affairs.
The Prime Minister and Minister for External Affairs, Mr. Menzies,
made the ftll1mwing statement on international affairs by leave in the
House of Representatives tnday
I do not propose in this statement to endeavour to deal with the
whole field of foreign affairs. Time would not pemit of such an oxercise.

MESSAL~ 1GU2E TO rPARIPMnE Mii1ILNISTER, MR. hENZIES
FROM PRESIDENT-ELECT, SENATOR JOHN F. IENNEDY
The President-Elect of the United States, Senator
John F. Kennedy, has sent the following message to the Prime
riinister, Mr. Menzies
Many thanks for the generous message of good will
upon my election to the Presidency of the United States.
I warmly welcome the expression of cooperation from you
and your colleagues of the Government of Australia.
Our two nations share many common tasks, both in

SPEECH BY T1HE PRIME A~ INISñ' EA, THE AT. HION. R. G.
nEN4E,_ AT BETEGON THE 1st DECEMBR16
Ladies and gentlemen:
This seems to me like a real old fashioned political
meeting. I am particularly delighted with it because this is
a by-election, and, as you have been reminded, at this byelection,
as indeed at all elections, you have to choose
between the Gove: nnent and the Opposition.
You've heard the Government here; you've heard the
" opposition" there; ( Laughter, applause) and on Saturday week

SPEECH 13Y THE PRIh: MINISTER THE RT. HON. R. G.
MENZIES, AT HOR. SHAM, ON MON{ DY, 28TH NOVEMBEa,
_ 1960
Mr. Chairman, Mr. Rylah, Parliamentary colleagues and ladies
and gentlemen: It must be a considerable time since I : ias on this
platform last. I remember it very well. It was a very good
meeting. As I told some of you this afternoon we had a bit of
good spirited heckling, and some very lively questions. So I
remember the meeting with considerable affection.
But I also remember the place, though not this actual

SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER, THE RT. KONo R. I NZIES
AT THE ALL NATIONS CLUB ON FRIDAY, 25TH NOV4EMER, 1960.
Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen:
I want to compliment my old friend, the President, o)
his obviously continuing studies in ambiguity. ( Laughter) I've
never heard a more masterly exhibition of ambiguity than the one
he gave us tonight, since the last time I read one of his
judgments. ( Laughter)
I also want to say at once, a propos of the last
remark, about Sir Richard Boyer's rock-and-roll session, that on