| Main Performers | Mr Anthony Eden MP (Chair),
Mr Winston Churchill MP - speakers |
| Performance Notes | "We are met at a time of British decline abroad and growing sense of frustration at home. There is no one here who is not conscious of our fall from the glorious position we had reached at the moment of our victory only three short years ago. There is no one who does not resent the attempt of our rulers to bring our life at home down to the level of the Tired Tims and Weary Willies, and to deny or discourage all incentive and opportunity for men and women to give the best that is in for themselves, for those they love and the land they live in. I do not wonder that British youth is in revolt against the morbid doctrine that nothing matters but the equal sharing of miseries, that what used to be called the 'submerged tenth' can only be rescued by bringing the other nine-tenths down to their level: against the folly that it is better that every one should have half rations rather than that any, by their exertions or ability, should earn a second helping."
(The Times, 14 June 1948)
Photograph of Churchill at the podium available from PA Images (Image reference # 16231659). |