| Main Performers | Sir Winston Churchill (Grand Master),
Rt. Hon. Viscount Hailsham (Minister of Education) - speakers |
| Set List | Banner procession,
Speech (Sir Winston Churchill),
Speech (Rt. Hon Viscount Hailsham) |
| Performance Notes | Churchill's speech defended the Government's actions during the Suez Crisis and criticised the United Nations policy in the Middle East.
"It was, in short, Sir Winston Churchill's day. He had come in procession down the length of the hall, behind the embroidered banners of the Primrose League branches, and with him walked the solicitous Lady Churchill. The audience stood up for him and cheered his every step, just as at the end they followed the organist into 'For he's a jolly good fellow....
...Lord Hailsham had hardly begun his speech before Miss Greene and four or five other members of the League of Empire Loyalists, as is becoming their habit, began to barrack him. The audience countered the mischief by clapping the speech and drowning out the interruptions, but eventually stewards summoned a posse of policemen who, under a benign sergeant, escorted the hecklers out of the Hall."
(The Times, 4 May 1957) |
| Related Archival Material | Photograph (RAHE/3/1957/1)
Photograph (RAHE/3/1957/6) |