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Extract from the Prime Minister's
speech at the Marion House on 10th November,
1949.
For
"Let me, however, make this clear, in case there should be any mistake about it in any quarter. We mean to hold our own. (Loud cheers.) I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire. (Loud cheers.) that task, if ever it were prescribed, someone else would have to be found, and, under democracy, I suppose the nation would have to be consulted. I am proud to be a member of that vast commonwealth and society of nations and communities gathered in and around the
ancient British monarchy, without which the good cause might well have perished from the face of the earth. Here we are, and here we stand, a veritable rock of salvation in this drifting world.
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