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deficit [applause]. No other country in the world can be immune from its effects —such is the influence of the American economy on us all. We in Europe have watched with admiration the burgeoning of this mighty American economy. There is a new mood in the United States. A visitor feels it at once. The resurgence of your self-confidence and your national pride is almost tangible. Now the sun is rising in the West [applause]. For many years, our vitality in Britain was blunted by excessive reliance on the State. Our industries were nationalised, controlled and subsidised in a way that yours never were. We are having to recover the spirit of enterprise which you never lost. Many of the policies you are following are the policies we are following. You have brought inflation down. So have we. You have declared war on regulations and controls. So have we. Our Civil Service is now smaller than at any time since the War and controls on pay, prices, dividends, foreign exchange, all are gone. You have encouraged small business —so often the source of tomorrow's jobs. So have we. But above all, we are carrying out the largest programme of denationalisation in our history [applause]. Just a few years ago, in Britain, privatisation was thought to be a pipe dream. Now it is a reality and a popular one. Our latest success was the sale of British Telecommunications. It was the largest share issue ever to be brought to the market on either side of the Atlantic — some two million people bought shares. Members of Congress, that is what capitalism is-a system which brings wealth to the many, and not just to the few [applause]. The United Kingdom economy is in its fourth year of recovery. Slower than yours, but positive recovery. We have not yet shared your success in bringing down unemployment, although we are creating many new jobs; but output, investment and standard of living are all at record levels and profits are well up. And the pound? It is too low! Yet whatever the proper international level of sterling, it is a marvellous time for Americans not only to visit Britain but to invest with her [applause] -and many are! America is by far the largest direct investor in Britain and I am delighted to say that Britain is the largest direct investor in the United States [applause]. The British economy has an underlying strength and like you, we use our strength and resolve to carry out our duties to our allies and to the wider world. We were the first country to station Cruise missiles on our territory. Britain led the rest [applause]. In proportion to our population, we station the same number of troops as you in Germany. In Central America, we keep troops stationed in Belize at that government's request. That is our contribution to sustaining democracy in a part of the world so vital to the United States [applause]. We have troops in Cyprus and in the South Atlantic and at your request, a small force in Sinai, and British servicemen are now on loan to some 30 foreign countries. We are alongside you in Beirut; we work with you in the Atlantic and in the Indian Ocean; our navy is on duty across the world. Mr. Speaker, Britain meets her responsibilities in the defence of freedom throughout the world and she will go on doing so [applause]. Members of Congress, closer to home there is a threat to freedom both savage and insiduous. Both our countries have suffered at the hands of terrorists. We have both lost some of our best young lives and I have lost some close and dear friends. Free, strong, democratic societies will not be driven by gunmen to abandon freedom or democracy [applause] . The problems of the Middle East will not be solved by the cold blooded murder of American servicemen in Lebanon, nor by the murder of American civilians on a hi-jacked aircraft [applause]. Nor will the problems of Northern Ireland be solved by the assassin's gun or bomb. Garrett FitzGerald and I-and our respective governments—are united in condemning terrorism [applause]. We recognise the differing traditions and identities of the two parts of the community of Northern Ireland—the Nationalist and the Unionist. We seek a political way forward acceptable to them both, which respects them both. So long as the majority of people of Northern Ireland wish to remain part of the United Kingdom, their wishes will be respected. If ever there were to be a majority in favour of change, then I believe that our Parliament would respond accordingly-for that is the principle of consent enshrined in your constitution and in an essential part of ours. There is no disagreement on this principle between the United Kingdom Government and the Government of the Republic of Ireland. Indeed, the four constitutional nationalist parties of Ireland, north and south, who came together to issue the New Ireland Forum Report, made clear that any new 18 arrangements could only come about by consent, and I welcome too their outright condemnation and total rejection of terrorism and all its works. Be under no illusions about the Provisional IRA. They terrorise their own communities. They are the enemies of democracy and of freedom too. Don't just take my word for it. Ask the Government of the Irish Republic, where it is an offence even to belong to that organisation —as indeed it also is in Northern Ireland. Garrett FitzGerald-and I salute him for the very brave thing he did yesterday in passing a special law to see that money did not get to the IRA —Garrett FitzGerald and I will continue to consult together in the quest for stability and peace in Northern Ireland and we hope we will have your continued support for our joint efforts to find a way forward [applause]. Distinguished Members of Congress, our two countries have a common heritage as well as a common language. It is no mere figure of speech to say that many of your most enduring traditions -representative government,habeus corpus, trial by jury, a system of constitutional checks and balances —stem from our own small islands. But they are as much your lawful inheritance as ours. You did not borrow these traditions—you took them with you, because they were already your own. Human progress is not automatic. Civilisation has its ebbs and flows, but if we look at the history of the last five hundred years, whether in the field of art, science, technology, religious tolerance or in the practise of politics, the conscious inspiration of it all has been the belief and practise of freedom under law; freedom disciplined by morality, under the law perceived to be just. I cannot conclude this address without recalling words made immortal by your great President Abraham Lincoln in his second Inaugural Address, when he looked beyond an age when men fought and strove toward a more peaceful future: "With malice toward none, with chairty for all, with firmness in the right that God gives us to see the right. Let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations." Members of Congress, may our two kindred nations go forward together sharing Lincoln's vision, firm of purpose, strong in faith, warm of heart, as we approach the third millenium of the Christian era. Mr. Speaker, thankyou! [applause] .•
Woods Corner Ronald I. Cohen, Editor 5 Murray Avenue, West mount, Quebec, Canada H3Y 2X9 An Ongoing Forum of Additions & Corrections to the Woods Bibliography of Works by Sir Winston Churchill, for the New Edition, 1987. ("Woods" is shorthand for A Bibliography of the Works of Sir Winston Churchill by Frederick Woods, first published in 1963, current (second revised) edition 1975. At request of the author and publisher, ICS has undertaken a complete revision and updating of this invaluable work for publication in 1987. Editor Cohen requests your comments and additions.) In our last installments we have reviewed errors and omissions relating to Section C (contributions to press and periodicals). We will now turn again to new information relating to Sections A and B. While the method of dealing with Section A and B omissions will duplicate that used for Section C, there will be a different approach to corrigenda, because of the different nature of volumes versus periodicals. Again, I am omitting here the many minor errors in Woods, while making appropriate corrections to the actual text. These arise principally in his descriptions of title pages and contents. When I do mention them, it is in the context of providing information on more substantive issues that have a bearing on collector's concerns, such as whether a volume is a first state, etc. Al(a)THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE: Contrary to Woods there are no protective tissues over folding maps. The second state errata slip follows, doesn't precede, the first folding map. States are also distinguished by the catalogue at the end, which is dated 1 2/97 (first state) or 3/98 (second). Al(a) Colonial Edition: There are four, not three impressions: March 1898, March 1898, November 1898, February 1901. There is also a version of the Colonial in both card and wraps printed in dark blue on green and carrying adverts on the inside front and rear and on the outside rear, but no catalogue. A2(d) THE RIVER WAR 1933 Edition: An unrecorded binding variant exists in violet cloth. Woods does not mention the Scribners edition (in all respects identical to the E&S English except as to name of publisher), nor the Award (1964) nor New English Library (1973) paperbacks. A3(a) SAVROLA American Edition: The second impression states that the first impression was published November 1899 and the second January 1900. Both dates precede Woods' February 1900 date for the first US appearance.- Since November 1899 is also, per Woods, the first publication of The River War, there is a possibility that Savrola actually preceded A2! However, the Savrola serialization in Macmillan's Magazine did not conclude until December 1899; it is unlikely that the hardbound edition would have appeared while the serial was still running. [RML Query: Yes, but would the Americans have cared over serialization in an English magazine, and is this not perhaps the reason the US edition appeared so early? I.e., could the English publisher have held back because of the Macmillan's serialization: but not the American?]. A3(b) SAVROLA Colonial Edition: A Copp, Clark cancel exists, unmentioned by Woods (although such an edition is mentioned under Malakand. Woods also mentions olive wrappers in connection with the Colonial. I suspect he reversed his Malakand and Savrola data. See comments on Malakand Colonial above. A4 LONDON TO LADYSMITH VIA PRETORIA: A Canadian edition exists identical in contents/pagination to the American edition, but with a cover similar to the English edition (line drawing of armoured train). This edition also exists in card wraps with Copp Clark designation on title but "Montreal News Company Limited" spine. A5IAN HAMILTON'S MARCH: An amusing Woods typo is his indication that the volume contains excerpts from the DAIRY °f Lt. Frankland. Our re-reading indicates no reference to milk °r butter. A8(a) LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL: A Times Book Club 19 version exists (contents same, binding different), sold at 7s and was the cause of some distress to both WSC and Macmillan on account of its low price. (See Companion Vol II Part 1 pages 493-94.) A10 NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION IN FAVOUR OF LAND & HOUSING REFORM. There are errors in the title and it should be D(b)25/1, since it contains speeches by others beside Churchill. A12 MY AFRICAN JOURNEY: Contrary to our presentation in FH#43, the unmentioned Canadian (Briggs) edition is 1909 not 1908. A15 LIBERALISM AND THE SOCIAL PROBLEM: Apparently Woods' description of the speech at p277 as "May 3, 1903 [stet 1903. Misprint for 1909]" is totally incorrect. All firsts examined read "May 4, 1909." The second impression was incorrectly altered to "May 4, 1903." The true date was May 3, 1909! [RML: It is possible that in correcting the second impression the typesetter put a "3" in place of the "9" instead of the "4" as intended? The 1973 Haskell reprint is, incidentally, photographically reproduced from this second imprsn.] Woods' acknowledges no second impression at all, and as in Al2 he refers to publishers "Doubleday, Doran." I have never seen nor heard of a Doran American edition. All US editions known bear Hodder and Stoughton imprints, are undated with top boards blank. Title pages read "New York and London," versus "Lonaon." (typo) A16THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS: Variant wraps exist, one with "Yorkshire Observer Edition" inserted above price and publisher's imprint reduced and amended to "Hodder and Stoughton, Publishers, London." A18/1 CHURCHILL SAID: There appears to be a third (unacknowledged) mate to A18/1 and /2; the same title, this one was published by the Scottish National Party. Not checked by me. It is reported that the nationalist organizations publishing these called upon the Scots to establish a separate Parliament as their "war" aim. Conclusion? Publication after 1914, not 1911 as per Woods, although the address occurred in 1911. (For the text see the Collected Speeches, Volume II, pages 1876-84.) A20(a) IRISH HOME RULE: Correctly 15(16) pp. not 16 pp. A22/1 SPEECH ... ON NAVY ESTIMATES: Separately published, apparently extracted from Hansard, reportedly 24 pages plus (including?) wraps. Title details incomplete. Info needed. Speech date 17 March 1914 {Coll. Spchs. Vol III pages 2262-7.) A24NAVY ESTIMATES IN THE GREAT WAR: French translation known. A26 THE MUNITIONS MIRACLE: Correctly 15(16) pp A28 REASON AND REALITY: 36 pp plus wrappers (printed red on orange). Speech mentioned on page iii of wraps, described by Woods as "unidentified" is in fact "The State and the Individual." This item originally published as "Labour versus the Labour Party" in the 18 Jan 1920 Illustrated Sunday Herald. (See C70.) A31(a) THE WORLD CRISIS: Woods describes the Vol I spine only, which contains no star. Spines of all subsequent volumes have numerating stars, and a star is added to Volume I with the third impression. Part 2 of Volume III has an errata slip tipped onto the half-title, not in Woods. An Australian edition (Australasian Publishing Co. Ltd.) of Volumes I and II appeared, bound as the English but without "Thornton Butterworth" on spine. The unmentioned Canadian edition is printed, bound and jacketed as per the American edition but labeled Macmillan not Scribners. A31(a) THE GREAT WAR: Woods does not note the Danish nor Norwegian translations. (See our notes on this in FH#46 page 16; the Norwegian edition adds an 1 lth form to known versions of this title.) Collectors of the blue bound editions should be aware that it is not uncommon to find sets with mixed Arabic/ Roman numerals. •
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