[Laughter.] Wales is a single and indivisible entity with a life of its
own, drawing its vitality from an ancient past, and both, I believe, in
the volume and in the reality of its activity, never more virile than it
is today. [Cheers.] But I do not know that there is any general
agreement among Welshmen as to where their capital is to be found,
[laughter, and a voice, "Here,"] and without attempting as an outsider
to differentiate or to reconcile competing claims I stand here tonight
on what I believe to be a safe coign of vantage under the hospitality
and the authority of the Lord Mayor of Cardiff.
Though I am not altogether a stranger to Wales, you may nevertheless ask
why I have requested your permission to address this great audience here
tonight. I am not altogether an idle man, and during the last few months
I can honestly say that there has hardly been a day, indeed there have
been very few hours, which have not been preoccupied with grave cares
and responsibility. But throughout them all I have been, and I am,
sustained by a profound and unshakable belief in the righteousness of
our cause [cheers] and by overwhelming evidence that in the pursuit and
the maintenance of that cause the Government have behind them, without
distinction of race, of party, or of class, the whole moral and material
support of the British Empire.
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