Spotlight On The Speaker

Krishna Menon, a former Defence Minister of India, spoke for two hours without notes at the Peace, Power and Politics conference before reaching his punchline —"I declare this conference inaugurated".

A little old lady won over everyone at the opening session of the conference.

Rising on her toes to emphasise her points, diminutive Mrs. Freda Cooke delivered to the crowded Opera House messages from North Vietnam.

She is an English teacher at Hanoi's Foreign Languages Institute.

The applause which followed her address was the greatest accorded any speaker at the morning session.

The Rev. John Beer, Chairman of the Mobilization Committee, Sydney, boldly asserted: "There is no church leader in the world of any significance who supports the war or the bombing of the North."