Aberystwyth Rotary
I spoke last night at the New Year dinner of Aberystwyth Rotary Club in the Marine Hotel.
The President, Eifion Lewis, used to work for the Royal Mail in Aber and he and I have stood shoulder to shoulder in many epic struggles to preserve that marvellous institution.Eifion has been unwell but is now happily very much back to 100% condition.
I had been asked to speak on the year ahead and to make some predictions about what lies in store.With more prescience than I really realised I said that predictions in politics are notoriously difficult ( this was, of course ,before the New Hampshire Primary result which I then proceeded to call wrongly on the Democrat side of the equation–in common with just about everybody else! )
I told my audience that I don’t like ‘ What ifs ? ‘ and recalled the no doubt apocryphal story that Sir Alec Douglas Home was asked in what way the world would have been different if Kruschev and not Kennedy had been killed in November 1963. He mused for some time and then said it was difficult to say but he didn’t think that Aristotle Onassis would have married Mrs. Kruschev!
Rotary Clubs do valuable community service and provide for co-operation between clubs on a national and international basis.
