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Whitlam's crushing defeat after his failure — under the pressure of a worldwide economic downturn and the incompetence of some of his ministers — to produce a just (and rich) society, proved that everything that Menzies had instinctively felt about the Australian voter was true. At heart the egalitarian Australian was really a middleclass materialist and eye-to-eye with the ballot box he believed that his true interests would be better served by a government of bosses than by a government of workers.

Yes, Menzies was a clever orator, a witty after-dinner speaker, a deep lover of crick et, and a man of charm and consideration to his friends. (One of his early journalist acquaintances, Philip Harris, had come to live in Britain and had fallen on hard times in his old age. Menzies would seek him out every time he came to London, invite him to the Savoy, and feed him little stories that Harris sold on Fleet Street.)

But a public man has to be judged on his public life and there are only three things to say about Menzies. He was the last of the 'British-style' Australian politicians; he was a conservative in the most restrictive sense of the v;,ord; and he stopped the clock in Australia for forty years.