Describes the author's experiences as a pilot during the 1914-18 War, the Empire Air Training Scheme, as RAAF representative on Combined Chiefs of Staff organisation in Washington, and as Director-General of Civil Aviation.
Volume of collected speeches made on civic occasions while Sir Paul Hasluck was Governor-General ; includes "The future of the Aborigines" delivered at an anniversary dinner of the Lawyers' Committee in Sydney on 27 May 1970.