In Ceylon there are today more than half a million Roman Catholics many of them still using Portuguese names and surnames, The foreign cemetery in Peking is full of tombstones of many of our brave men. The whole African littoral was explored by our navigators and them marked and named. The sinest relies in Morocco and Ethiopia are of Portuguese origin. There are countless harbours and islands "in the South Atlantic which, if they had not been ours, they were atleest, our god children, because they still retain the names which we gave them,"
His Excellency then quoted from the preamble of Premier in relation, to the present celebrations:
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