§ Mr. SpeakerI have to inform the House that I have received on their behalf many further messages expressing respect for Sir Winston Churchill and sympathy with the House in the loss which we have suffered, and I should like at once to express our profound gratitude for them. In order that the terms of the telegrams should be available to hon. Members, I will arrange for those received from Legislatures and Parliamentary bodies to be printed in the OFFICIAL REPORT.
In particular, I should tell the House that I have received such messages from the Speaker of the Basutoland Legislature; the President of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile; the President of the Senate and President of the Chamber of Representatives of the Republic of Colombia; the President of the National Assembly of France; the President of the Greek Parliament; the Clerk of the Grenada Legislative Council; the President of the Chamber of Counsellors of Morocco; the President of the N.A.T.O. Parliamentarians' Council in Paris; the President of the National Assembly of Tunisia; the President of the Ukrainian National Council; and the President of the Senate of Uruguay.
There are also many messages from individuals to whom I hope in due course in my replies to express our appreciation.
§ Following are the messages:
§ The Speaker, House of Commons, London.
§ On behalf of our Parliament I convey deep sympathy at loss of Greatest Parliamentarian of our day who so loved the Mother of Parliament in whose great traditions we follow.
§ Speaker, Basutoland Legislature.
694§ To the Speaker of the House of Commons, London.
§ Pray accept, Your Excellency, and be good enough to transmit to your honourable House and to all the people of the United Kingdom, the expression of our profound grief on the death of an illustrious statesman and a champion of democracy. The ideas of liberty and human dignity of which Sir Winston Churchill was the exponent are now numbered amongst the great historical principles.
§ RAUL MORALES ADRIAZOLA, EDUARDO CAÑA IBAÑEZ,
§ President and Secretary of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile.
§ The Speaker of the House of Commons, London.
§ In the name of the Congress of Colombia, we wish to associate ourselves with the universal grief aroused by the disappearance of Sir Winston Churchill, the outstanding champion of democracy and triumphant defender of liberty.
§ EUGENIO GOMEZ GOMEZ,
§ President of the Senate of the Republic of Colombia.
§ DIEGO URIBE VARGAS,
§ President of the Chamber of Representative of Colombia.
§ Paris. From the President of the National Assembly to Sir Harry Hylton-Foster, Speaker of the House of Commons, Westminster, London, S.W.1.
§ At this time when the British nation is paying solemn homage to one of its most outstanding sons, Sir Winston Churchill, I am anxious that you should know of the deep sadness and the admiration felt by the National Assembly for this great citizen. He remained constantly the friend of France and a champion of public liberties. He shed lustre on your Parliament, and he will always be a model for those people throughout the world who value Parliamentary democracy.
§ JACQUES CHABAN DELMAS.
695§ Sir Harry Hylton-Foster, Speaker of the House of Commons, London.
§ I wish to convey to you my sincerest condolences and the expression of the feelings of profound sympathy of the Greek Parliament for the great loss which the British nation have sustained in the death of Sir Winston Churchill. The Greek Parliament are paying tribute to the memory of the great statesman, the brilliant war leader and the champion of the cause of freedom and democracy and participate in your national grief.
§ GEORGE ATHANASIADIS NOVAS,
§ President, Greek Parliament.
§ The Clerk, House of Commons, London.
§ By resolution passed at 1st meeting yesterday after Sir Winston's death Grenada Legislative Council directed me to request you convey to your Parliament and Lady Churchill deepest sympathy.
§ Clerk, Grenada Legislative Council.
§ Mr. Speaker,
§ On behalf of myself and the Chamber of Counsellors of Morocco, I beg Your Excellency to accept our condolences on the cruel loss which your honourable assembly, as well as the great English people, have suffered by the death of Sir Winston Churchill.
§ M'FADEL CHERKAOUI,
§ President of the Chamber of Counsellors.
§ The Rt. Hon. Sir Harry Hylton-Foster, Q.C., M.P., Speaker of the House of Commons, Westminster.
§ Mr. Speaker, the death of the oldest and most illustrious Parliamentarian in Europe has shocked us all and plunged his former colleagues from the N.A.T.O. countries into mourning. I should like to convey to you the heartfelt sorrow of the members of the N.A.T.O. Parliamentarians' Conference at your great loss. Not only have you lost a good House of Commons man but the world is the poorer for having lost the greatest statesman the Twentieth Century has produced 696 who by his fortitude and indomitable courage preserved our freedom during the last war.
§ HENRI MOREAU DE'MELEN,
§ President.
§ It is with a feeling of profound sadness and deep emotion that the National Assembly of the Tunisian Republic has learned of the loss of that great Parliamentarian and outstanding statesman Sir Winston Churchill. He will live in history, remaining for future generations the symbol of indomitable resistance to fascism's policy of hegemony and enslavement, as well as the resolute champion of liberty and democracy.
§ In asking you to assure our honourable colleagues of the House of Commons of our deeply felt sympathy and sincere condolences, I express to you my own feelings of grief and profound sympathy.
§ SAODOK MOKASDEM,
§ President of the National Assembly.
§ English Parliament, London.
§ In the name of the Ukrainian National Council I would like to express my deepest sympathy for the death of the greatest son of Great Britain, an untiring defender of the freedom of peoples and the unity of Europe.
§ OSYP BOYDUNYK,
§ President of the Ukrainian National Council.
§ The British Parliament.
§ The Senate of Uruguay, expressing the unanimous feelings of the nation, pays deeply felt homage to the admirable life of the undoubted leader in the victorious struggle for the highest ideals of mankind. The career of Winston Churchill will serve as a permanent beacon of faith, courage and heroism.
§ MARTIN H. ECHEGOYEN,
§ President.
§ JOSE PASTOR SALVANACH,
§ Secretary.