Ladies and Gentlemen,

I am very glad and honoured to be here, at this spot and in this time. In this lofty circle. This is a very special occasion. [ «The idea of the World Power Conference was Dunlop’s and Dunlop’s alone.»

These words were spoken by Mr. Gray who was the first ever general secretary of the WEC. He served from 1929 for about almost 40 years and died in June 1988. He was chosen with great intuition by Dunlop. This Mr. Gray looked very solid to him.

When I was writing my biography I became interested in Dunlop generally, not only economically. He was an extremely colourful man – look at his life. And so I became interested also in the WEC and decided to visit the congress in Cannes, in October 1986.

It was the time of Tschernobyl, while Mr. Ruttley was General Secretary. (…)

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