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WS EXT Ministry of Information building / WS Robert Gordon Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia, at press conference / PAN to journalists at presser / MS journalists making notes / CU Menzies speaking, Lord Alfred Duff Cooper, British minister of Information, seated at right / SOT Menzies: "The people of this country must very frequently be tempted to feel that they have the world against them ... they must sometimes wonder whether they have reached the stage when they are fighting the world and I want to tell them on behalf on Australia, and I believe I can say as self appointed ambassador for every British Dominion, that they not alone against the world. There is a very large portion of the world including my own country that is with them, not out of some feeling of benevolence, but because we are what some people occasionally forget an integral portion of the British community in the world"; "They do it because they are the great grandsons of the same people who were your great-grandfathers and we are not merely discharging some obligation of partnership, we are the family and when there is trouble in this world every member of the family knows just where he is and he going to remain there until the trouble is over" / journalists clapping / Note: exact day not known