Wednesday, February 28, 1968 of some other things I want to say. You should not take advantage of me just when I went to take a drop of water. I thought that after that fine piece of advice I gave you that you would be more kindly to your counterpart across the floor. Frank Jardine : Say amen. Walter R. Shaw : Now that fellow that said "Amen" over there should go out and inspect some of those new liquor stores that he put up. He is interested in that. One of those dining halls that holds twenty people. (Applause) I would like to thank you Mr. Premier , and the Government for having ap¬ pointed me, and you lost on this I will tell you, for appointing me as your represen¬ tative to the Commonwealth Conference in . I suppose they thought, as I did, that it was a pretty dangerous exploit, but I had so much experience in doing sharp foot work here with the government that I felt that I would be able to under¬ take that. Although I will say that when we started out, and a lot of people told me I was foolish at my age to go alone, and I thought I was too. We got out beyond Newfoundland about oh I suppose two or three hours. We were just sitting down to dinner and the motor quieted down and we got word over the intercom or whatever you call it that one of the engines had conked out, and they came around and they swept the dinner table clean, and I was pretty sure then that I had made a mistake in starting (Laughter). We took a long time before we got into Gander, Newfound¬ land. They said we would be in in twenty-five minutes, well I will tell you, Mr. Speaker , it was the longest twenty-five minutes I ever experienced. I was quite sure it was three hours. However we landed, and were there until 3:30 in the morning, the same length of time that the Premier spent at that meeting in Toronto . We had our lunch there and they sent back for a plane to Montreal. The plane came over before daylight. It was a passenger plane and held about forty-five people. We got on and we went on to , and got in there in the morning and I had in the meantime contacted some fellows from the rest of Canada , grand fellows they were too, and we went on together to . I arrived in Niarobi in Kenya about 3:30 the next morning. I was taken up to a hotel and they were all Africans you see, I didn't see a white person there, but they were wonderful, wonderful people. I was taken away down through a garden patch to my room and I was wondering about this in a strange land, the land of the Mau Mau. I was wondering if I was going to be raided or not. I tell you I saw that the door was securely locked that night, and I even looked under the bed. (Laughter). Hon . Robert E. Campbell : What were the girls like? Walter R. Shaw : Oh, now. (Laughter). That should not be of any interest to you; you are too old. (Laughter). However, we had a wonderful time there. An experience down in that really I cannot describe. It is simply fantastic — both the people which ranged all the way from a highly educated, wonderfully cultured people right down the grade until you get out to almost the semi-savages. Some of them still go naked. The men, I mean. Now I want to thank you, and I want to thank the Premier and the Govern¬ ment for that trip. It was a wonderful experience. I came back and I went up to Athens and then continued on into Israel and that was of course my own private business there. I do not know of anything that has given me a greater degree of satisfaction and a greater education than those trips. It changes your whole outlook on life, your views of those people. Now I would like to have given you the story of this, but I am not going to. What I have done is this, I have written it and I have prepared it in a little booklet, a little pamphlet and I expected these would be here this afternoon and I would not take up more time in the Legislature by describing my trip but I will have these boooklets to distribute. You can read it if you wish at your leisure, and if you don't want to read it, it is perfectly all right. I have disposed of my responsibility, so I think these will be here this afternoon for distribution. And of course it did save a little time and gave me a little more time on the Draft Address . Thank you very much. (Applause)