I thank the State Zionist Council of New South Wales for extending me the honour of being your guest speaker at this celebration of the Twenty Seventh Anniversary of Israeli Independence. In that comparatively brief span since 14th May, 1948, there have been very few years in which those gathering to celebrate this day have…
The Prime Minister, Mr. Whitlam, M.P., announced today that he had sent messages to the new Israeli Prime Minister, Mr. Rabin and to the outgoing Prime Minister, Mrs. Meir. In his message to Mrs. Meir the Prime Minister praised her for her leadership of Israel during a difficult period of its history and in particular…
The requirements of international diplomacy do not always permit the full expression of a nation’s deeper feelings about international affairs. For example, the policy on the Middle East dispute of the Australian Government. My own and all those who preceded it in the last two decades has been officially expressed in these terms: – “Australia’s…
When we gather together two years after the death of Sam Cohen to do honor to the memory of a man so widely and deeply loved, no doubt each of us who had the privilege of knowing him personally is unconsciously asking the question — what of all his qualities is the one for which…