Anniversary dinner 1958

Mr President, Your Excellencies, Your Worship, My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen: IT is your flattering custom to invite a member of H.M. Government to 1 address you at your Anniversary Dinner. It is an honour, I know, which any of my colleagues would eagerly accept, but none more eagerly than myself, for, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, I feel a special sense of responsibility, of indebtedness, to the progress of science, and, if I may say so, a modicum of responsibility too. When I considered your kind invitation my first thought, conscious as I was of the slight feeling of inferiority that we politicians suffer from when our talents are compared with those of scientists, was that here was an opportunity of making the case for the politician by cogent argument

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