21 years
Thank you
Privilege
Honour to represent Finchley & Friern Barnet
Intro
Dick Webster
Vic Usher
Jimmy Sapsted
John Tiplady
Bertie Blatch
Win Mackerill ?
Frank & Betty Gibson
(Bertie Nervard)
Alfred Pike
George Brunskill
Bill Hart
Roy Franklin—Finchley & Friern Barnet
1959
Not long after Suez
Winston ChurchillWinston still alive
Imperial role—going
—no one has ever filled it John Kennedy ?¨ B & K ?
Gen. de Gaulle
Robert Menzies—still a force in the land in Australia
Cuba—crisis p2
Locally
Still had Hampstead Garden Suburb
Whether to build new Town Hall
Schedule A—office [word illegible]
Simms—still belonged to Simms
Education battles
Owen Owen—Prisons ? [end p1]
John Cohen—Tesco
Macmillan—Pensions
Overseas—New barbarism
At home—better
Britain's problems of a long standing nature. Had been created over a period of years and had become progressively worse because p3
of lack of will by successive governments to tell the people the truth about the situation. The whole ethos thus engendered had sapped the British will to work and their traditional pride in a job well done. To reverse the trend required an enormous and sustained effort.
It would not be sufficient to sprinkle excellent ideas & intentions from the top. What was required was an effort from below. p4
To have a healthy economy we need a healthy body politic and a healthy society.
Honesty, enterprise, decency, the desire to deserve to be well thought of by your fellow men are essential to successful national economic performance. Without them, the cleverest government, the most draconian measures, the best economic models, the greatest incentives will be of no avail. p5
The amazing economic development of the past two centuries,—greater than the previous history of civilisation was made possible by non-economic changes with this country in the lead.
Stable constitutional govt.
Freedom of thought & speech religious and philosophical leading to great scientific discoveries
Freedom under the law involving a sense of duty
public duty
private duty p6
A different attitude to work seeing it as a virtue as well as a necessity.
The City of London became the world's great financial centre more because of its reputation for honesty rather than for any geographical or political reasons.
Englishmen were famous for their hard work, thrift, reliability, honesty, initiative, intellectual curiousity, philosophical & scientific preeminence.
Moral qualities were the secret of our economic success.
If we lose them we go back [end p2] p7
economically. That is the lesson to be learned from world history and British history.