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Publication Date

1967

Place of Publication

Melbourne

Book-plate

Yes

Summary

“I take leave to doubt whether I will have many happier memories at the end of my life than recalling them and the work that they did” Menzies’s contributed the chapter ‘Down Memory Lane’ which is a transcript of a speech delivered in 1964 reflecting on his time in Federal Parliament, beginning in 1934. Menzies sentimentally recalls his first years as a Minister in an administration of “a spartan simplicity”. Menzies subsequently recalls the necessary changes occurring in the expanding administration, caused by World War II, the dwindling Commonwealth and other “modern complexities”. The additional anecdotes of fellow Ministers are heartwarming and personal, eliciting laughter from his audience and reminding the reader that in his 70th year, Me

Edition

First

Number of Pages

510

Publication Info

hardcover