Ludwig Minelli director of Dignitas said: They were very sad but they know that this was the way Mr Crew

Ludwig Minelli, director of Dignitas, said: “They were very sad but they know that this was the way Mr Crew wanted [it].”Mr Crew joined Dignitas last year after seeing a television programme on the organisation. Reginald Crew made his final journey yesterday to a suburban flat in an apartment block in Zurich where he was helped to end his life. They are important issues and the world community has a responsibility for dealing with them.”Mr Blair said that his role over recent months had been to construct “the broadest possible international consensus” on the best way to deal with Iraq’s weapons arsenals.He warned it would be “tough” to hold that consensus together in the coming months.”Saddam will be trying to play it any way he can to try to weaken that international consensus,” he said. Otherwise the discussion we have in the Security Council is not going to be as productive as it should be.”Mr Blair told the committee he had “never had any doubt” that President GeorgeBush would go down the UN route, rather than taking action unilaterally againstSaddam.”I think he understands the importance of trying to take international opinion with us,” he said.He issued a passionate defence of his close relationship with Washington, which has led to him being described by critics as Mr Bush’s “poodle”.”I know there are a lot of criticisms of the relationship with the US, but I will defend that relationship absolutely and solidly, because I believe it is important for us and for the wider world,” said Mr Blair.”I don’t think it is right that the US is made to face these issues alone. It is easier in every respect if there is one,” said Mr Blair.”But what I also say is we can’t have a situation in which there is a material breach recognised by everybody and yet action is unreasonably blocked.”I don’t think that will happen, but nonetheless, we have got to have that qualification. The second requires a more considered judgment.”Mr Blair admitted he had been “coy” about making Britain’s position absolutely clear, and said that this had been intended to increase the pressure on Saddam and the Iraqi regime.”We are trying to put maximum pressure on them, and if I am sometimes coy about speculating what happens on January 27 or if the inspectors say this or that, it is because I don’t want to do anything that weakens that enormous pressure coming to bear on the regime either to co–operate or, frankly, to crumble,” he said.He insisted that he expected the UN Security Council to authorise military action if Saddam is shown to have breached Resolution 1441, but said Britain must reserve its right to act without UN approval.”The preference is for a UN resolution.

If the point you are making is that it doesn’t end with Iraq, I agree totally. the problem in respect of Iraq is not the problem necessarily of proliferating the weapons of mass destruction, it is actually that they may use the weapons of mass destruction.”I don’t think the focus should be totally on Iraq … How far along the path they have got on that we can’t be sure.”Saddam was hiding those weapons, and the missiles which could deliver them.”What we believe, and I think the recent finds by the inspectors would bear this out, is that they are being dispersed into different parts of the country.”Mr Blair said the will of the United Nations had to be respected.”We have gone down the UN route … Even so, it must be said that for those who did not know him well his rather forthright way of speaking could be disconcerting.

I remember taking the French dramatist Eug? Ionesco to lunch at Plas Penglais, the Principal’s official residence, during a tour of the University Colleges of Wales in 1972. When the College Registrar once asked for permission to turn up the heating system at the approach of winter, the Principal advised him to instruct his staff to don extra pullovers and gloves.A vital part of Goronwy Daniel’s character was his egalitarian spirit: he treated everyone with the same warm geniality, however exalted or lowly their place in the scheme of things. Tales are still told of the consternation among coastguards on Cardigan Bay whenever Sir Goronwy took his small boat out in inclement weather, often sailing alone as far as Ireland. The college had weathered the turbulence of the Investiture of July 1969 – for his own part in which the future Principal received a knighthood (Prince Charles had controversially spent the summer term at Aberystwyth as an undergraduate) – and now began a period of fresh growth on all fronts.Daniel was particularly supportive of various initiatives in teaching through the medium of Welsh. His 10 years at the “College by the Sea” were happy and fruitful. From among 22 names considered, his was unanimously and enthusiastically recommended by the selection committee. In 1940 he married Lady Valerie, daughter of the second Earl Lloyd George and a granddaughter of the statesman.