 Accompanied by his wife he greeted his guests, but then had to leave for a reception, being held to celebrate the European Coal and Steel Community, at the British Foreign Office.It would normally have fallen to the next person in the embassy chain of command to deliver a short speech of welcome to the assembled guests, but for some reason Oskar Schlitter instead asked his wife, Daisy to attend to this formality.Daisy duly improvised a speech.