In 1965, the Menzies conservative government appointed an Australian, Lord Casey, and the position has since been held only by Australians.

He held the office for three weeks until the UAP elected a new leader, Robert Menzies.

Throughout his life and career, Menzies held strong beliefs in the Monarchy and in traditional ties with Britain.

When World War I began, Menzies was 19 years old and held a commission in the university's militia unit.

Menzies died from a heart attack in Melbourne in 1978 and was accorded a state funeral, held in Scots ' Church, Melbourne, at which Prince Charles represented Queen Elizabeth II.

Styles and titles Menzies held held from birth until death, in chronological order:

Extensive breaches of Nazi Enigma signals gave Menzies and his team enormous insight into Adolf Hitler's strategy, and this was kept a closely held secret, not only during the war, but until as late as 1974.

In February 1966, former Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies resigned, triggering a by-election in Kooyong, the eastern Melbourne electorate that he had held for 32 years.

Liberal leader Robert Menzies held office throughout Slim's time in Australia.

One was held in Edinburgh where Hughes stressed his human rights and Green friendly background ; another in Manchester, where Chris Huhne rebutted criticism from Sir Menzies Campbell that his call for a rise in petrol duty would harm people living in rural areas dependent on using their cars.

Hooker's flora was also to include that collected on the voyages of Cook and Menzies held by the British Museum and collections made on the Beagle.

In 1951 the Prime Minister, Robert Menzies appointed Hasluck as Minister for Territories, a post he held for twelve years.

in 2002, a post he held until his resignation in 2006 following the election of Sir Menzies Campbell as party leader.

Clark first stood for election in 1992 for the seat of Fife North East, held by Menzies Campbell, but was unsuccessful.

The movement was not approved by the Vatican, but it siphoned a proportion of the Catholic vote away from the Labor Party, contributing to the success of the newly formed Liberal Party of Robert Menzies, which held power from 1949 to 1972, which, in return for DLP preferences, secured state aid for Catholic schools in Australia in 1963.

In 1951 the Liberal Party of Australia government of Robert Menzies held a referendum to give the government the constitutional power to ban the Communist Party.

Following a similar conversation regarding the organization of Pentecostal scholars, Ward, Menzies and Synan proposed their idea at the Pentecostal World Conference held in Dallas, Texas in 1970.

Always held by the government of the day, the seat was marginal between the Australian Labor Party and the Liberal Party, reflected in the current situation in which Jagajaga is a Labor seat and Menzies a Liberal seat.

North East Fife is a county constituency in Fife, Scotland, represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom currently held by Sir Menzies Campbell, former leader of the Liberal Democrats.

At the 1st Academy Awards, held on May 16, 1929, Menzies won for Best Art Direction for The Dove and Tempest.

At the 12th Academy Awards held on February 29, 1940, Menzies won an Academy Honorary Award " for outstanding achievement in the use of color for the enhancement of dramatic mood in the production of Gone with the Wind.

From 1922 to 1994, it was held by only three members -- former Opposition Leader and future Chief Justice John Latham, former Prime Minister Robert Menzies and former Opposition Leader Andrew Peacock.

For 55 of those years, it was held by three generations of the Anthony family -- Larry Anthony ( senior ) ( a minister in the Fadden and Menzies governments ), Doug Anthony ( Deputy Prime Minister in the Gorton, McMahon and Fraser governments ) and Larry Anthony ( junior ) ( a minister in the Howard government )-- the first three-generation dynasty in the Australian House of Representatives.

* In the 1984 mini series The Last Bastion, Menzies was portrayed by John Wood.

* Max Gillies has caricatured Menzies on stage and in the comedy satire series The Gillies Report.

* In the TV series Rome, Brutus, portrayed by Tobias Menzies, is depicted as a young man torn between what he believes is right, and his loyalty and love of a man who has been like a father to him.

With the Allies suffering a series of defeats and the threat of war growing in the Pacific, the Menzies Government ( 1939-1941 ) relied on two independents, Arthur Coles and Alex Wilson for its parliamentary majority.

The series pilot aired July 21, 1977 with F. Murray Abraham starring as Dr. Tony Menzies.

A television series spin-off from the film, starring Gregory Harrison as Logan 5 and Heather Menzies as Jessica 6, lasted one season of 14 episodes, from September 16, 1977, through January 16, 1978, on U. S. television ( CBS-TV ).

The book is written informally, as a series of vignettes of Menzies ' travels around the globe examining what he claims is evidence for his " 1421 hypothesis ", interspersed with speculation and description of the achievements of Admiral Zheng He's fleet.

Regarded as the most entertaining game of the series, Australian winger Brian Carlson scored a hat-trick of both tries and goals, but the highlight of the game was a bewildering try by Kiwi stand-off George Menzies which was so spectacular that even the referee, Eric Clay, applauded.

She is replaced in series six by character ' Penny ' ( Anouschka Menzies ), who did not return in series seven.

The series featured numerous performances and cameos by notable guest stars including: Dean Martin, Kim Basinger, Melanie Griffith, Kim Cattrall, Abe Vigoda, Morey Amsterdam, Shelley Fabares, Shelley Berman, Savannah Smith Boucher, Alex Trebek, Sid Caesar, Slim Pickens, Isabel Sanford, Maureen McCormick, Cesar Romero, Doc Severinsen, Mamie Van Doren, Muhammad Ali, Robert Loggia, Kurt Krakowian, Leslie Nielsen, Lola Falana, Rudolph " Minnesota Fats " Wanderone, Heather Menzies ( Urich's real-life wife ), Eve Arden, Barbi Benton, Lisa Hartman, Shelley Winters, Wayne Newton, Captain & Tennille, Wolfman Jack, Tanya Roberts, Lorne Greene, Erin Gray, Gary Lockwood, William Garbacz, June Lockhart, Michael Cole, and Dick Butkus.

In 1929, Menzies partnered with producer Joseph M. Schenck to create a series of early sound short films visualizing great works of music, including a 10-minute version of Dukas ' The Sorcerer's Apprentice, and created the production design and special effects for Schenck's feature film The Lottery Bride ( 1930 ).

Menzies was certainly adept at bureaucratic intrigue, a virtual necessity in his position, but his efforts as ' C ' had a major role in winning World War II, as evidenced by his nearly 1, 500 meetings with Prime Minister Churchill during the war.

The accomplished and politically well-connected naturalist Archibald Menzies complained that his servant had been pressed into service during a shipboard emergency ; sailing master Joseph Whidbey had a competing claim for pay as expedition astronomer ; and Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford, whom Vancouver had disciplined for numerous infractions and eventually sent home in disgrace, proceeded to harass him publicly and privately.

Menzies transferred to federal politics in 1934, representing the United Australia Party ( UAP — the Nationalists had merged with other non-Labor groups to form the UAP during his tenure as a state parliamentarian ) in the upper-class Melbourne electorate of Kooyong.

Animosity developed between Earle Page and Menzies which was aggravated when Page became Acting Prime Minister during Lyons ' illness after October 1938.

Elizabeth II | Queen Elizabeth II with Menzies at an official function during her first visit to Australia in 1954

Menzies publicly supported the Anglo-French invasion of Egypt during the Suez Crisis.

In July 1966 the Queen appointed Menzies to the ancient office of Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports and Constable of Dover Castle, taking official residence at Walmer Castle during his annual visits to Britain.

The veteran Australian politician Billy Hughes led the party following Robert Menzies ' resignation during the World War II | Second World War.

( He was the only prime minister to be knighted during his term of office until Robert Menzies in 1963 ; various others were knighted after leaving the office ; Sir Earle Page was already a knight when he briefly became prime minister in 1939.

This was despite Curtin furiously opposing conscription during World War I, and again in 1939 when it was introduced by the Menzies government.

Major General Sir Stewart Graham Menzies, KCB, KCMG, DSO, MC (; 30 January 1890 – 29 May 1968 ) was Chief of MI6 ( SIS ), British Secret Intelligence Service, during and after World War II.

Menzies ' regiment was decimated during fighting in 1915, suffering very heavy casualties in the Second Battle of Ypres.

A year later North Korea invaded South Korea and in 1951, during the Korean War, the Liberal government of Robert Menzies tried to ban the Communist Party of Australia, first by legislation that was declared invalid by the High Court, then by referendum to try to overcome the constitutional obstacles to that legislation, but the referendum was narrowly defeated.

A member of the advisory board for the early Australia Council Vance was attacked as a Communist “ fellow traveller ” ( which to some extent he was ) during the McCarthyist period of the 1950s, but his integrity was recognised by the deeply conservative Prime Minister of that era, Sir Robert Menzies.

Menzies retired the following year, and stood unsuccessfully as an independent candidate in Wolverhampton South West during the United Kingdom general election 1970, where — standing against Enoch Powell — he called for unrestricted immigration to Great Britain, drawing 0. 2 % of the vote.

Its species name was given it in honour of the Scots naturalist Archibald Menzies who noted it during George Vancouver's voyage of exploration.

Also named for Menzies, in a corrupted form as adapted by the Nuxalk people of the Bella Coola area of the Central Coast of British Columbia, is " Bensins Island ", as recorded by Alexander Mackenzie during his visit there shortly after Vancouver's ship visited the area.

The novel takes place during the prime ministership of Robert Menzies, where Australia was, for the most part, comfortable and conservative, characterised by backyard barbecues, by wives-who were no longer needed for the war effort-consigned to the home, and by the growth of the Australian dream of owning a new home.

Its most prominent members have been Richard Casey, a leading Cabinet member in the 1930s and later Governor-General, Hubert Opperman, a former cycling champion and a minister in the Menzies government, and Gordon Scholes, who was Speaker during the Whitlam government and a minister in the Hawke government.

While in opposition during the early years of World War II, Ward was leaked evidence of the ' Brisbane Line ' plan, the Menzies government's decision that, in the event of enemy invasion, Australia would have been defended by the concentration of Australian military forces on a line drawn from Brisbane to Adelaide, meaning that large tracts of Australia would have been abandoned to the Japanese.

Ward was a subject of a parliamentary outburst by Menzies ( who had apparently, and most uncharacteristically, drunk too much ) during a discussion of the proposed Anti-Communist Bill.

Ward did not present any direct evidence of his claims at the time, and Menzies, along with all the ministers that had served under him during the previous government, denied the allegation.

William Cameron Menzies ( July 29, 1896March 5, 1957 ) was an Academy Award-winning American film production designer ( a job title he invented ) and art director who also worked as a director, producer, and screenwriter during a career spanning five decades.