The Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Menzies, K.T., C.H., Q.C., Prime Minister of Australia
1939-41 and 1949-66, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, in conversation with Kenneth Harris.

Suez 1956
"The United Nations in 1956 didn't settle the problems of peace and war in the Middle East, they made another war inevitable."

The Commonwealth
"I'm bound to confess with sorrow that I'm not sorry to be no longer attending a Conference of that kind because all the ancient landmarks have been rooted up... I sometimes think that the winds of change blew a little too suddenly and a little too strongly."

The United Kingdom
"I think you are a little bit inclined here to exaggerate your disabilities, to have lost some faith in yourselves... In this country with its immense history and its immense reservoirs of high intelligence and rich experience, there's no reason to apologise for existence. This country ought to be the moral and intellectual leader of the world for generations to come, but it must not lose faith in itself."

Recorded at the official residence of the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, Walmer Castle, Kent.

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